Saturday, August 4, 2018

Americans average 11 hours a day using media !

I wonder if this helps explain
why the labor productivity 
growth rate has been so slow?

A report by Nielsen found
that Americans spend 
an average of 11 hours per day 
interacting with media.

Nielsen's first-quarter 2018
report on media consumption 
released on July 31. showed
the time Americans spent 
interacting with media 
was up 19 minutes 
over the previous quarter, 
and here are the details:

Watching live television: 
   4 hours, 10 minutes average per day

Watching time-shifted television: 
   36 minutes

App/Web on a smartphone: 
   2 hours, 22 minutes

App/Web on a tablet: 
   47 minutes

Internet on a computer: 
   39 minutes

Listening to the radio: 
   1 hour, 46 minutes

Internet connected device: 
   26 minutes

Game console: 
   14 minutes

DVD / Blu-Ray device: 
   6 minutes


Adults ages 50-64 averaged 
nearly 13 hours a day !


Young adults 18-34 
spend 43% of their time 
consuming media on 
digital platforms. 

Almost a third of their time 
spent with media (29%) 
comes from apps/web 
on a smartphone.


As a retiree since the end of 2004,
I try to avoid too many hours
watching media, by NOT 
going online at least four days
a week, and sometimes five days. 


A different study discovered 
that the average office worker 
in America spends 1,700 hours 
in front of a screen each year. 

According to a survey 
of 2,000 office workers 
by contact lenses 
manufacturer Acuvue, 
office workers spend 
about 6.5 hours a day 
sitting in front of 
their computer.

Is this good 
for worker productivity ?




Approximately 90% 
of the programming 
that comes through your TV 
is controlled by just six
giant media corporations. 

In 2018, alternative voices 
are in an information war,
being “shadowbanned”, 
censored, or 
having their accounts 
terminated altogether, 
by the tech giants. 

Some of the large 
conservative websites 
have seen their traffic 
from social media 
fall by over 90%.

If you want to change society, 
you have to go online, 
because that's where
the people are! 


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