（带文稿）1107 美研究表明，刷视频的小孩4年人数翻一番。喂，你！手里抖音放一放

3分信用分还在的张老邪广告时间叨哔叨：

抖音B站虽好，不要 Binge-Watching。网络时代，不要成了被割的流量而荒废了自我赋值的大好年华。另外安利一本原版书The Attention Merchants，讲的就是转向争夺攫取大众注意力的商业经济，比如...... 我就不说最近带货翻车爱说偶买噶的某个土豪主播啦~

言归正传，看看今天这则新闻里的小孩们花多长时间耽溺于网络视频的流媒体（Streaming Media），有么有可以借鉴的干预措施呢？

In this file photo, the YouTube app and YouTube Kids app are displayed on a smartphone in New York. A new survey confirms what a lot of parents already know: Teens and tweens are consuming a lot of online video. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

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    A new study has found that the number of young Americans who watch online videos each day has more than doubled in the past four years.

The findings were based on a survey of about 1,700 young people aged 8 to 18. Results were released this week by the U.S.-based not-for-profit group Common Sense Media. The group researches youth technology activity and offers guidance for parents.

    Fifty-six percent of 8- to 12-year-olds taking part in the survey said they watched online videos each day. That rate jumped to 69 percent for 13- to 18-year-olds. A 2015 survey by Common Sense Media found the rate was 24 percent for 8- to 12-year-olds and 34 percent for 13- to 18-year-olds.

    The survey found that overall screen time for young Americans did not change much over the past four years. On average, preteens spent just under five hours of screen time on devices each day. Teens had about seven and a half hours of screen time. The numbers did not include time young people spent on their devices doing homework, reading books or listening to music.

    Common Sense Media’s director of research, Michael Robb, told The Associated Press that such screen time among American youth “really is the air they breathe.”

    The findings suggest a continuing change by young people to move away from traditional television to watch streaming video services on their phones and other personal devices.

    Only about one-third of teens surveyed said they enjoyed watching traditional television programming “a lot.” This compared with nearly half of those surveyed four years ago. About half of preteens said they enjoyed watching traditional television “a lot,” compared with 61 percent in 2015.

    YouTube, which is owned by Google, was the number one choice of youth for online videos, even among the preteens surveyed. Three-quarters of the preteens said they use the site even though it has age restrictions. Only 23 percent of preteens said they watch YouTube Kids, a separate service aimed at their age group and even younger children. Of those who said they used YouTube Kids, most said they enjoyed the regular YouTube site better.

    Robb said the common use of YouTube by young people “puts a lot of pressure” on parents to find ways to restrict what their children see.

In answer to the survey, YouTube said the company is rethinking the way it deals with children and families.

    A spokesman for YouTube, Farshad Shadloo, repeated the company’s terms of use on age: “YouTube is not a site for people under 13,” he said. The company said YouTube Kids and its restriction tools are designed to limit site usage for preteens.

    But experts say it is easy for many children to get to the videos they want to watch, whether on YouTube or another streaming service.

    Sarah Domoff is a professor at Central Michigan University who studies the effects of technology on youth and families. She told the AP that parents often do not have the time or skills to limit what their children are watching effectively.

    Domoff said she thinks many parents could do more to try to track the screen time of their children. She added, however, that tools aimed at limiting usage on services such as YouTube could be greatly improved. “It’s really hard to block out certain things unless you’re really standing over your child,” Domoff said.

    I’m Bryan Lynn.

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QUIZ （答案见文末词汇表）

What did the survey find about the overall screen time usage of young Americans during the past four years?

A. Overall screen time amounts doubled.

B.Overall screen time rates dropped sharply.

C. Overall screen time did not change much.

D. Overall screen time rose in all age groups.

Which of the following was another main finding of the survey?

A.Many young people continue to move away from traditional television viewing.

B.A majority of young people said they never watch videos on traditional television.

C.Most young people said they favor YouTube over other websites for watching videos.

D.Only a small group of young people said they always watch videos on a smartphone.

How did YouTube answer the findings of the study?

A. It disputed the numbers resulting from the study

B. It promised new technologies to limit child viewing.

C. It said it is not able to limit videos on its website

D. It said it is rethinking the way it deals with children.

What does Sarah Domoff say is a common difficulty for parents trying to limit what children watch?

A. Parents do not get enough help from schools.

B. Children can easily hide their online activities.

C. Parents do not have the necessary time or skills.

D.Many parents find it difficult to talk to their children.

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Words in This Story

survey – n. examinations of people’s opinions based on asking questions

screen – n. the usually flat part of a computer or device that shows images and text

stream – v. listen or watch something on a computer or device

track – n. follow the movement of

certain – adj. completely sure of something

Quiz答案【CADC】