Ulla G. Foehr's research while affiliated with Stanford University and other places
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Publications (7)
Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, but the kinds of content they choose, and the physical, social, and psychological context of much of their exposure. This national sample study provides a comprehensive picture of young people's media...
This study is one of the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information on the amount and nature of media use among American youth: (1) It includes a large national sample of more than 2,000 young people from across the country; (2) It covers children from ages 8 to 18, to track changes from childhood through the transitio...
American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of d...
This chapter surveys a widely scattered empirical literature on media and adolescents. It focuses on youth from roughly 10 through 20 years old and emphasizes research on television, music, movies, magazines, and the new digital communication technologies. The chapter begins with a summary of research on media use patterns. Attention then turns to...
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... There are studies that found that the use of internet globally would be fuelled by new updated information technologies trends like, blog writing, audio/video podcasts, Wi Fi connectivity and RSS feeds (Burns& Polman, 2006). It is a known fact now that communication technologies including the Internet have substantial impact on young children than all other technological innovations (Roberts & Foehr, 2004). A study of how the young kids use traditional and internet is important to understand and analyse as it enables advertisers and social marketers to develop effective and responsible marketing messages to these future consumers. ...
Reference: Internet Usage by Young Kids in India
... A previous study has reported the same findings where most adolescents aged 12-15 in the global North consider having a good balance between screen time and doing other things (OfCom, 2019). Adolescence is a vulnerable period (Kuss and Griffiths, 2011) and adolescents' self-regulatory processes and emotion regulation capacities are still developing (Berthelsen et al., 2017) while their social media use increases (Rideout et al., 2010). Parents and adolescents should be aware that excessive (addictive) recreational screen time may turn into maladaptive outcomes such as obesity, co-occurring psychosocial problems, and decreased wellbeing (Griffiths et al., 2018). ...
... Youths who multitask a lot perform better at multitasking or other attentional skills. (Foehr, 2006). Watson & Strayer (2010) question in their study if all these multitasking abilities have made the youth's effective multitaskers or even 'supertaskers.' ...
... These implications include students' waning attention and declining self-regulatory abilities, which are requisite for acquiring essential content and for using it appropriately (Richtel, 2010). In addition, researchers have reported that a quarter of 18-to 29-year-olds are almost constantly online (Anderson & Rainie, 2018) and are often spending their time passively in ways that do not promote deeper learner (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010). It is worth noting that these papers and reports predated the year-long pandemic, which sparked forced quarantines and online learning. ...
... Social identity (SI) is the awareness that an individual belongs to a certain social group, sharing emotions and values with other group members (Tajfel & Turner, 1979, p. 292). Music is an important part of one's personal and social identity as music listening can generate social affiliation and evoke memories of social contexts (Ho, 2015;Roberts et al., 2004). Scholars have also identified the positive relationship between social identity and information sharing online, including music sharing and knowledge sharing Shen et al., 2010). ...
... Music listening is an important source of enjoyment and entertainment for children and adolescents (Erkkila & Saarikallio, 2007;Giacometti et al., 1981;Miranda & Claes, 2009;North et al., 2000;Roberts et al., 2009). The increased tendency to listen to music during adolescence coincides with the delicate transition from childhood to adulthood-a critical life phase characterized by developmental and psychosocial challenges and reward-seeking behaviors (Miranda & Claes, 2009;Steinberg & Lerner, 2004). ...
... Today's learners experienced technological developments at an accelerated pace. The technological developments also included a period where the technology used imbued markets in the world and added multiple conditions that were new to encounter (Patrikakou, 2015;Roberts & Foehr, 2008). On average, adolescents learned more than their parents regarding how technological aspects of new forms of communication could impact the progressive or detrimental effects on family union (Patrikakou, 2015). ...
