17. Kids ages 8-10 play video games for about one hour every day. Digital divisions. Report by the Pew /Internet: Pew Internet & American Life . US Department of Commerce 87% of 8- to 17-year old children play video games at home. Male teenagers play 13 hours of console video games a week .
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19. Females play 5 hours a week of console games. They make up the majority of PC gamers at 63%. Almost 43% of the gamers are female and 26% of those females are over 18.
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58. Lenhart, Maddden, Hitlin (2005) Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Snail mail: “something you use to talk to ‘old people,’ institutions, or to send complex instructions to large groups.” In other words “Email”
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