Text message: 13%
Listen to music: 84%
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Girls Just Want to Be Plugged In -- to Everything
Multi-tasking youths are constantly linked to entertainment and friends by technology.
THE ENTERTAINMENT POLL
THE ENTERTAINMENT POLL / Last of five parts.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday September 15, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 39 words Type of Material: Correction
Entertainment poll: An Aug. 11 front-page story on the Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll on how teenagers consume entertainment incorrectly stated that 14-year-old Julia Schwartz aspired to be a dance studio owner. She aspires to be a dance company owner.
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Talk on the phone: 32%
Play a video game: 6%
Watch a TV show: 47%
Watch a movie: 22%
It depends on the homework I have: 6%
Other: 2%
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Note: More information on this poll can be found at latimes.com/entertainmentpoll
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How the poll was conducted
The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll was conducted from June 23 to July 3 using the Knowledge Networks' Web-enabled panel, which provides a representative nationwide sample of U.S. households. Of the 4,466 minors and young adults invited to participate in the survey, 1,904 (43%) responded to the survey, with 1,650 qualifying. The 1,650 qualified respondents included 839 minors (ages 12 to 17) and 811 young adults (ages 18 to 24). The margin of sampling error for both groups is plus or minus 3 percentage points. In order to provide as representative a sample as possible, the survey results were weighted to U.S. census figures for 12- to 24-year-olds in the United States in terms of age, race or ethnicity, gender and region, and for urban or rural residence and Internet access.
Source: Times/Bloomberg poll
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The Entertainment Poll
Monday
A new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll finds that a large majority of 12- to 24-year-olds are bored with their entertainment choices. Their solution? Even more options. Plus: Busting myths about teens and young adults.
Tuesday
The old Hollywood movie model doesn't interest younger audiences. They want to see films as soon as they come out at home -- whether on TV, computer or the next new gadget.
Wednesday
Within the music industry, copied CDs are considered a greater threat than illegal peer-to-peer downloading. But young people are confused about where sharing ends and piracy begins in the era of iTunes.
Thursday
Is new technology the answer for TV and video? Teens and young adults -- the generation most likely to be the early adopters of this new technology -- have yet to fully embrace it.
Today
A day in the life of a prototypical plugged-in tween. Plus: Does multi-tasking hurt homework?
On the Web
Readers weigh in: How has the entertainment industry failed today's young people? Plus, read previous installments of this series. All at latimes.com/entertainmentpoll.
