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COMMUNICATION RESEARCH REPORTS
Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 357-364Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2014.963221
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Adolescents; Children; Internet; Media Use; Mobile Technology; Tablets
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The relatively recent invention of mobile tablets has changed the way children and adolescents use media technologies. Given that children and adolescents differ developmentally, we use Uses and Gratifications theory to explore ownership of mobile devices by young people and how children and adolescents use newermedia technologies, including the Internet and mobile devices. Results from a national study of 909 children and adolescents, 8 to 17 years old, demonstrate that even younger children are avid users of new mobile devices, although ownership and use of mobile phones and tablets increases with age. Further, Internet use varies as a function of age, suggesting that children and adolescents may have different interests in and motivations to use new media technology, which play a role in their media use behavior.
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