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The #1 Voice in Your Kid’s Life?! (Part 2) – Media in the Lives of 8-18 yr olds
It looks like the “#1 Voice” series will now include another study because it directly ties into the other study. It’s a study from the University of Maryland that began as homework for 200 students. It’s truly AMAZING that kids can admit they are addicted and even use those terms to describe themselves: “I clearly am [...]
Continue reading...The #1 Voice in Your Kid’s Life?! – Media in the Lives of 8-18 yr olds
21. April 2010
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I’m going to start a new series about media consumption in the lives of 8-18 yr olds in the US. The series will be based on a new report recently released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report has a sample size of over 2,000 kids and gives us some great insight how technology is [...]
Continue reading...The Generation Gap Growth Curve
19. April 2010
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What does a generation gap in the 21st century look like? Does it look the same as one would have looked back in the 1800’s? How about 5th Century BC? Does the rate of current technological change affect this gap? If technology helps broaden this gap, then are modern “less technical” societies less affected? As I [...]
Continue reading...Media, Technology and the 21st Century Family (Part 2)
29. April 2009
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Top 5 Family Tech Tools of the 21st Century: #1 Social Media There is so much information to cover here that I’m going to have to break it up more than I thought. I’m going to walk through a “Top 5″ list of technologies that I think are having the most impact on the 21st century [...]
Continue reading...Media,Technology and the 21st Century Family (Intro)
27. April 2009
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I think a lot of people that come to this site are wanting information about what the 21st Century family will look like so I wanted to do a series associated with that topic. I wanted to start with something that met the following criteria: it had to be specific to the 21st Century and [...]
Continue reading...Being “There” – Lessons from the Wizard of Oz
9. April 2009
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I remember as a young boy watching the Wizard of Oz for the first time and being shocked when I finally got to see the “Wizard.” I think at that point and time in both my life, and within history in general, special effects were neither elaborate nor really well known. When all the lighting [...]
Continue reading...Against the Grain
8. April 2009
I heard an illustration when I was a kid about a marching band member who insisted he was going the right direction while everyone else was going the wrong direction. Let’s pretend for the sake of this illustration that we could go behind the scenes in a “flashback” type moment to see what happened to [...]
Continue reading...Perceptions of Time (Part 1 of 2)
6. April 2009
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Have you ever been stuck in a classroom or Dr’s office and watched the second hand slowly work it’s way around the clock? It seems like the more you focus on it the slower it seems to move. When you are watching the seconds pass it actually seems like time moves quite slowly. It’s quite [...]
Continue reading...Life Meter – Perceptions of Time (Part 2 of 2)
6. April 2009
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What if we were given a life meter as a young child? Let’s pretend that there is a ritual in every family when a kid becomes an adult (let’s say 14 for the sake of this illustration) that they are given a “life meter.” This meter is simply a measuring device that shows exactly how [...]
Continue reading...The World in Your Hands – Family Media Statistics
1. April 2009
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YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY LIVE MEDIA-SATURATED LIVES, SPENDING AN AVERAGE OF NEARLY 6 1/2 HOURS A DAY (6:21) WITH MEDIA. Across the seven days of the week, that amount is the equivalent of a full-time job, with a few extra hours thrown in for overtime (441/2 hours a week). Indeed, given that about a quarter (26%) of [...]
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26. April 2010
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