Figure 1 Children’s use of online platforms
Ofcom’s Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2022 explores social media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3 to 17. It also includes findings on parents’ views about their children’s media use.
The research tells us that young people’s media life-worlds today are increasingly fragmented and individualised, and creative rather than simply passive. The days of the nation gathering around the TV set to share a single, common media experience — and perhaps a collective form of citizenship — seem to be pretty much over. Except perhaps for major sporting events.
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