Video Zone: A day in the digital life of a teenager – transcript

Transcript for A day in the digital life of a teenager

THE COMMON SENSE CENSUS: MEDIA USE BY TWEENS AND TEENS
Alejandra: My name's Alejandra and I'm 13 and, like, on a daily basis, I’ll go on my phone in the
morning and I’ll check my Instagram, Snapchat, KIK, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine. Go to school
and then I come back, and I’ll use, like, go on Netflix and I’ll go in my room and listen to
Pandora, Spotify. I’ll play on my Xbox, like, Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty and … that’s
about it.
If I would add up, like, all the time that I use, I think I would spend about seven to eight
hours every day.
TEENS USE AN AVERAGE OF 9 HOURS OF MEDIA DAILY

Alejandra: When I’m on social media I feel like I know what’s going on, you know, you do feel a little
connected and you know, like what people are up to.
TEEN GIRLS SPEND 1:32 HOURS ON SOCIAL MEDIA DAILY
Alejandra: Like, you know, I’ll post pictures or videos, I’ll like, comment on stuff. I don’t think I’m
addicted to it … my phone. I think it’s kind of a leash though coz you always have to be on
it, and you know and when you hear a buzz, it’s like, oh … I have friends!
Sasha: I’m Sasha, I’m 16 years old. Currently I have the Xbox 360, MacBook Pro laptop, the iPad,
the old Xbox, a Samsung Galaxy smartphone and a PlayStation 4. I like to play a lot of
different video games on the console on my PS4 when I get home and I just, you know,
veg out sometimes and play …
OVER ⅓ OF BOYS SPEND MORE THAN 2 HOURS A DAY PLAYING ELECTRONIC
GAMES
Sasha: I have, you know, first person shooter, like Call of Duty or Battlefield, and we also have a
baseball game that I’ve been playing. I absolutely think that there is an addictive quality to
video games. Sometimes I’ll, you know, I’ll just keep going if I really want to level up on a
video game.
Alejandra: Usually when I do my homework, when I get home. I’ll either come in my room, listen to
music or I’ll go to the living room and watch TV while I do my homework.
⅔ OF TEENS WHO MULTITASK DURING HOMEWORK SAY IT DOESN’T AFFECT
THEIR WORK
Alejandra: If I’m, like, reading something and I, like, get distracted from the TV oh I’ll pause it or I’ll turn
off the music. I’ll go through the problem again or whatever I’m working on coz I guess I
was a little distracted.
Sasha: If I’m doing my homework on my laptop I might be also having conversations with my
friends or intermittently checking my phone. Sometimes if I just get too bored with my
homework I might play, like, Candy Crush or something. When I was younger I could go
much longer without using media but when I’m in an environment that has a lot of media
and all of my friends are all on media then I find it hard to kind of resist.