Based on interviews with 245 children ages 8 to 17, the new study also shows that 35% of kids have videogame systems in their rooms, 14% have their own DVD player, and 9% have Internet access via a PC in their bedrooms. And the presence of these technologies correlates with significant changes in media behavior; for example, among children with an own-room television:
The relatively few kids with own-room Internet access also report substantial effects on their media use:
David Tice, Knowledge Networks/SRI Vice President, Client Service, said "Kids with own-room media access represent an important subgroup of media users. Their behavior is more self-directed, in terms of linking media with each other and with other activities, and they have less parental supervision. Understanding the patterns of media behavior indigenous to children's rooms will only become more important as kids acquire more technologies."
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