Comments on: Sigman and the skewed screen of death http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/22/sigman-and-the-skewed-screen-of-death/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:48:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pia Marjukka Laasonen http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/22/sigman-and-the-skewed-screen-of-death/#comment-27933 Wed, 30 May 2012 12:25:08 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22667#comment-27933 Dear Society,My Personality is flexible grawitation.To do your own work is enough.I am skeptico about Tom Stafford Books,Idealism,what,a priori to creatingbrainprosess.A poste priori someone reed your theories.Brains have escapeways about blanco paper Poems.To sophisticate someone is nessessary.Ende.

]]> By: hey http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/22/sigman-and-the-skewed-screen-of-death/#comment-27437 Wed, 23 May 2012 22:22:43 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22667#comment-27437 The discussion is not about media, but about television, which is the starting point of the article. Anyway, anyone can strech the range of “media”, why not?. Add radio to the equation, comics and magazines are media too, also going to the movies, or theater, baseball… all those are media.

]]> By: baz http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/22/sigman-and-the-skewed-screen-of-death/#comment-27434 Wed, 23 May 2012 21:57:07 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22667#comment-27434 Im with jsolodar a 2006 meta analysis of results from 1949 to 2004 have no bearing on current usage. My 16 yo spends 6+ hours in front of a screen (computer, smart phone and some tv.)

]]> By: jsolodar http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/22/sigman-and-the-skewed-screen-of-death/#comment-27350 Tue, 22 May 2012 16:58:11 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22667#comment-27350 The 2006 meta-analysis you cited was based on 90 studies between 1949 – 2004, so I would question how well the results stand up today. It is hard to believe that viewing habits have not changed over 50 years. As more and more mobile platforms come into widespread use, the amount of time that young people spend on media keeps going up. The figure most often cited here in the US re media usage was published in 2010 in a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which used data on 8-18 year olds collected in 2008-2009. It compared against its own media usage study from 2004 and found that just from 2004-2009 daily media exposure increased more than an hour. The KFF study found that
“Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). 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 (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.

The amount of time spent with media increased by an hour and seventeen minutes a day over the past five years, from 6:21 in 2004 to 7:38 today. And because of media multitasking, the total amount of media content consumed during that period has increased from 8:33 in 2004 to 10:45 today.” –Excerpted from the news release announcing the findings. Link to the study at http://www.kff.org/entmedia.

The Kaiser Family Foundation does not charge for its information.

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