UK Children are spending increasing amounts of their lives in front of televisions, computers and games consoles, cramming in nearly six hours of screen time a day, according to research from ChildWise.

From the age of seven children are building multimedia hubs in their rooms, with games consoles, Internet access and MP3 players, which they wake up to in the morning and fall asleep to at night, according to the study of five- to 16-year-olds.

The market research agency also reports that children and young teens are more likely to socialise than do homework online. Some 30 per cent say they have a blog and 62 per cent have a profile on a social networking site.

Other posts by :

1. Fitch downgrades DirecTV debt
2. BBC: You’ll miss me when I’m gone
3. Some new US Starlink subs face $1,000 start-up fee
4. Project Kuiper beating OneWeb
5. OQ Tech gets Luxembourg 5G-by-Sat concession
6. Roskosmos: Heads roll, launch project scrapped
7. MDA under pressure over satellite order
8. SES backs C-band action from FCC
9. Congested orbits mean high risks of debris

Categories: Content, Research Library, Rights