Youth just can’t get over media

Youth are spending more time with nearly every form of media than ever, according to a report released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Youth are spending more time with nearly every form of media than ever, according to a report released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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They spend more hours on the computer, in front of television, playing video games, texting and listening to music than an adult spends full-time at work. The only media young people aren’t soaking up, the study says, are newspapers, magazines and other print publications.

Youth spend more than 7 1/2 hours a day using electronic media, or more than 53 hours a week, the 10-year study says.

“And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes worth of media content into those 7½ hours.”

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