The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices

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The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices Around the World

Mobile devices are rewiring daily life for teens and their parents. The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices Around the World is a comparative global mapping project designed to advance cross-cultural exploration of family digital media engagement. In partnership with Common Sense, the project compares survey findings from the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Photos by Sergio Negrete.

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The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices in Mexico

Latest study on impact of mobile devices on parents and teens expands from the U.S., Japan and U.K. to include Mexico.

To gain further insight into global trends among teens and parents, USC Annenberg and Common Sense selected Mexico as the latest focus of The New Normal: Parents, Teens, and Mobile Devices Around the World. Mexico is the first Spanish-speaking country in this series; general results were compared with those obtained in previous years in the U.S., Japan and the U.K. To view the report, toplines, and a comparison of data across all of the reports, click the link below.

Parents, teens, and mobile devices around the world

52% %
of U.S. teens feel they and their parents spend “too much time” on mobile devices
61% %
of Japanese parents feel their teens are “addicted” to their mobile devices
72% %
of U.K. parents feel their teens get distracted by their mobile devices at least once per day
76% %
of Mexican parents say they have family rules regarding mobile device use

Meet the collaborators

USC Annenberg

Willow Bay, Dean
Tina Vennegaard, Director, Strategic Programs and Initiatives

Common Sense

James P. Steyer, Founder and CEO
Michael B. Robb, Senior Director of Research

London School of Economics

Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media Communications

Universidad Iberoamericana

Dr. Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, Director, Department of Communication
Dra. Fidele Vlavo Ablavi