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CAFS 12: Community and Family Studies: Social impact of technology

Social impact of technology

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Social media impact young women

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From Pew Research Centre. Teens, social media and technology 2022

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Key facts

  • More than 4 in 5 children own at least one screen-based device that belongs to them, and children own, on average, three digital devices at home. Personal ownership of gadgets starts as young as four years old.
  • Only 46% of parents felt that their child spends a day without digital technology.
  • 73% of parents and grandparents think it is harder to control their child’s digital habits since getting their own screen-based device.
  • 65% of parents agreed that ‘negotiating digital technologies use causes conflicts in our home’.
  • 83% of parents, carers and grandparents felt that their child was negatively distracted by digital technologies.
  • Half of parents said that they would welcome more support from their child’s school to help them and their child to manage digital media and technologies use at home. 

Source: Growing up Digital Australia: The Gonski Institute  https://gie.unsw.edu.au

Spinney Press, 2019. This issue can be found in Canvas Library eResources.

This issue contains information about use of media by young people.