{"id":10791,"date":"2020-02-04T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/?p=10791"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:08:20","slug":"half-of-uk-10-year-olds-own-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2020\/02\/04\/half-of-uk-10-year-olds-own-a-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of UK 10-year-olds own a smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10792\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/02\/110756087_gettyimages-473838686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/02\/110756087_gettyimages-473838686.jpg 660w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/02\/110756087_gettyimages-473838686-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Fifty per cent of the UK&#8217;s 10-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2019, according to a report by media regulator Ofcom.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of young phone owners doubled between the ages of nine and 10, which Ofcom dubbed &#8220;the age of digital independence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 24% of 3 and 4-year-olds had their own tablet, and 15% of them were allowed to take it to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom&#8217;s annual report looks at the media habits of children, and the types of devices they are using.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 study was based on more than 3,200 interviews with children and parents around the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-51358192\">READ MORE HERE &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty per cent of the UK&#8217;s 10-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2019, according to a report by media regulator Ofcom. The amount of young phone owners doubled between the ages of nine and 10, which Ofcom dubbed &#8220;the age of digital independence&#8221;. In addition, 24% of 3 and 4-year-olds had their own tablet, and 15%&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2020\/02\/04\/half-of-uk-10-year-olds-own-a-smartphone\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Half of UK 10-year-olds own a smartphone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10793,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions\/10793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}