We know that tweens and teens love their smartphones, social media feeds and video games. But just how pervasive? Both Common Sense Media and Pew Research released extensive, in-depth research in 2015 that attach, concrete data to this social phenomenon. Here are high points of their findings.
Pew Research “Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview: Smartphones Facilitate Shifts in Communication Landscape for Teens” (April 2015)
Common Sense Media “The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens + Teens” (November 2015)
Common Sense report:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens
Pew Research report:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/
As well as our weekly blog, we publish videos like this one every week on the Screenagers YouTube channel
We know that tweens and teens love their smartphones, social media feeds and video games. But just how pervasive? Both Common Sense Media and Pew Research released extensive, in-depth research in 2015 that attach, concrete data to this social phenomenon. Here are high points of their findings.
Pew Research “Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview: Smartphones Facilitate Shifts in Communication Landscape for Teens” (April 2015)
Common Sense Media “The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens + Teens” (November 2015)
Common Sense report:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens
Pew Research report:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/
As well as our weekly blog, we publish videos like this one every week on the Screenagers YouTube channel
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