Technology, kids, and telly televizyon- Teknoloji, çocuklar ve televizyon

By: Andy Pipes 26/05/09 at 5:01 pm

Recently, Channel 4 commissioned atamak; vazifelendirmek some research from OTX into the relationships that kids aged 12-24 have with technology. The report is called A Beta Life, and I thought I'd share a few of the salient çarpıcı points and how they relate to the future of television on and offline.

Some top-line stats istatistik may surprise you about the average ortalama 12-24 year old (or not, if you are one):

  • They personally own 8 devices aygıt(including içermek MP3 player, PC, TV, DVD player, mobile phone, stereo, games console, and digital camera)
  • They frequently conduct yönetmek over 5 activities whilst iken watching TV
  • 25% of them agree that "I'd rather stay at home than go on a holiday with no internet or phone access'
  • A quarter of young people interviewed text or IM (instant message) friends they are physically with at the time
  • They have on average 123 friends on their social network spaces
  • And the first thing the majority çoğunluk of them do when they get home is turn on their PC.

Yet despite living such a 'connected' life, kids these days still find technology a means varlık to an end - primarily meeting up with their friends, watching television and listening to music.Above all özellikle, youth's obsession saplantı with technology is around communication. The average person surveyed was doing 5 simultaneous eşzamanlı actions whilst they watched television these days; and the majority of those actions involved karıştırmak communicating at some level. One young teenage girl admitted kabul etmek"I talk to my friend and MSN (instant message) her at the same time.' In fact, a full 34% of those asked said that they texted friends they were with at the time.

These activities seem to be making up for not spending as much physical time with their friends as they'd like - which seems to be most of the time. On the weekends, when typical young adults have the most free time, they are still spending more time hanging out takılmak with their mates and watching television than any other activity - the difference is that this generation tends eğilimi olmak to be engaging with their connected devices a lot more whilst doing those cherished activities.