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Summary Minority youth, 8 to 18 years old, consume an average of 13 hours of media content a day.
A new research revealed that black and other minority children in the United States spend far more time than white children watching TV and videos, listening to music, using computers and playing video games. The study found that minority youth, 8 to 18 years old, consume an average of 13 hours of media content a day, about 4.5 hours more than white youth.The research found that minority youth spends one to two more hours a day than white youth watching TV and videos, about an hour more listening to music, as much as 90 minutes more on computers and 30 to 40 minutes more playing video games. In the past decade, the gap between minority and white youths daily media use has doubled for blacks. The big question is what these disparities mean for childrens health and education.The average amount of time spent using cellphones, iPods and other mobile devices to watch TV was 3 hours 7 minutes a day for Asians, 2 hours 52 minutes for blacks and 1 hour 20 minutes for whites.
