FOR RELEASE MAY 28, 2009

Teens, Mobile and Games

At a Federal Trade Commission brownbag, Amanda Lenhart reviewed four years of Pew Internet data on youth and mobile phones as well as Pew findings on youth and video games.

BY Amanda Lenhart

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Pew Research Center, May 2009, "Teens, Mobile and Games"

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Teens, Mobile and Games

At a Federal Trade Commission brownbag, Amanda Lenhart reviewed four years of Pew Internet data on youth and mobile phones as well as Pew findings on youth and video games.

Amanda Lenhart and John Horrigan conducted a brownbag lunch for the Federal Trade Commission reviewing the latest Pew Internet data. Amanda’s talk covered four years (2004-2008) of data on youth and mobile phones as well as data on youth and video games. The mobile phone data examined adoption over time and the use of mobile phones for connecting and communication with others – via text or voice – and compared teens’ use of mobile phones to other communicative digital media. The video game data reviewed youth game play and game genres.

Teens, Mobile & Games – Lenhart Presentation to Federal Trade Commission May 2009 from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project