【教书匠阿伦-外刊精读】颈椎病、腱鞘炎缠上青少年, “手机病”影

2019-07-03 本文已影响1人教书匠阿伦

(CNN) The amount of time young children in the United States spend with mobile screens might raise some eyebrows, as a new report found it has tripled in just four years.

（美国有线电视新闻网）一份新的报告显示，美国幼儿在手机屏幕花费的时间在短短四年内增加了两倍，这或许会让有些人惊讶。

Children 8 and younger spent about 15 minutes a day staring at a mobile screen in 2013 and now they spend 48 minutes a day, according to the report by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization focused on helping children, parents, and educators navigate the world of media and technology.

根据Common Sense Media的一项研究报告显示，2013年8岁及以下的儿童每天盯着手机屏幕的时间约15分钟，而现在为每天48分钟。Common Sense Media 是一个致力于帮助儿童，家长和教育工作者在媒体和技术领域进行引导的非营利组织。

The report, released Thursday, also found that 42% of children 8 and younger now have their own tablet devices, a steep increase from 7% four years ago and less than 1% in 2011.

周四发布的这份报告还显示，8岁以下儿童中有42％的拥有自己的平板电脑设备，比四年前的7％和2011年的不足1％上升了很多。

Children spending more time on mobile devices comes as no shock to Douglas Gentile, a psychology professor at Iowa State University who was not involved in the new report but has studied the effects of media use on children.

爱荷华州立大学（Iowa State University）心理学教授 Douglas Gentile没有参与这份新报告，但是他研究了媒体使用对儿童的影响，他对孩子们在移动设备上花费更多的时间并不感到吃惊。

"On the one hand it's not surprising because it's what we look around ourselves and can see. I can see it at the airport, for example, I can see it at restaurants and I can even see it in my own home where my younger daughter watches almost no television but she'll watch lots of TV shows on her phone," Gentile said.

Gentile说：“一方面它并不奇怪，因为这是我们环顾四周可以看到的。例如，我可以在机场看到它，我可以在餐厅看到它，我甚至可以在我自己的家里看到我的小女儿几乎没有看电视，但她会在手机上看很多电视节目。”

On the other hand, "it's been getting harder for parents to really monitor a lot of what their kids are seeing and doing. At the same time, they're relying on the seeming benefit of being able to quiet the kid at a restaurant with a device," he said. "We may be building a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, because we're using that power for our benefit, not for the child's benefit."

另一方面他说：“家长越来越难以真正监控他们的孩子在看什么，在做什么。同时，他们还依靠着这样一种表面上的好处，在餐厅里用一种设备让孩子们安静下来。我们可能在制造一个弗兰肯斯坦式的怪物，因为我们利用这种力量是为了我们的利益，而不是为了孩子的利益。”

These changing patterns in how children interact with media appear to be a "seismic shift," said James Steyer, chief executive officer and founder of Common Sense Media, in an email to CNN.

Common Sense Media首席执行官兼创始人James Steyer在一封给CNN的电子邮件中表示，儿童与媒体互动方式的这些变化模式似乎是一次“巨大的转变”。

"One of the most staggering findings is that mobile devices are now as common in the home as TVs -- 98% of households with kids under 8 have a mobile device," he said. "The ubiquity of mobile is changing childhood."

他说：“最令人震惊的发现之一是移动设备现在在家庭中与电视一样普遍 - 8岁以下儿童家庭中98％拥有移动设备，手机的普及正在改变孩子们的童年。”

本新闻解读首发于2019年7月2日，选自：CNN

原文链接: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/19/health/children-smartphone-tablet-use-report/index.html作者：Jacqueline Howard

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常识媒体 Common Sense MediaCSM是一家非营利组织，“向家庭提供教育和宣传，以促进儿童安全的技术和媒体。常识媒体由吉姆·斯泰尔于2003年创办，主要对书籍、电影、电视节目、视频游戏、应用程序、音乐和网站进行评论，并根据年龄对它们进行评级——适合的教育内容、积极的信息/榜样、暴力、性和亵渎，以及更多父母为孩子选择媒体的内容。常识媒体还开发了一套评分系统，旨在衡量视频、游戏和应用程序的教育价值。该非营利组织的“学习评分”试图评估各种媒体形式下不同类型的学习质量。