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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
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Call the rest of the family. (You know their numbers.) Then put down your cell phone for just a second. Read on.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project – an ongoing study of the effect of electrons and how we spend our common existence – is out with its latest installment. This time the subject is cell phones, families and the Internet.
As it turns out, cell phones and the world online have worked to bring us together in new ways.
“The Internet and cell phones have become central components of modern family life,” says the report, issued for general release today.
The report finds that households with a married couple and minor children are more likely than other household types – such as single adults, homes with unrelated adults, or couples without children – to have cell phones and use the internet.
Among the findings:
• 89 percent of married-with-children households own multiple cell phones, and nearly half own three or more mobile devices.
• 66 percent of married-with-children households have a high-speed broadband internet connection at home, well above the national average for all households of 52 percent.
• Both spouses and at least one child go online in 65percent of married-with-children households.
• 58 percent of married-with-children households contain two or more desktop or laptop computers.
The survey shows that these high rates of technology ownership affect family life. In particular, cell phones allow family members to stay more regularly in touch even when they are not physically together. And many members of married-with-children households view material online together.
“Some analysts have worried that new technologies hurt family togetherness, but we see that technology allows for new kinds of connectedness built around cell phones and the internet,” noted Tracy Kennedy, author of the survey – called "Networked Families." “Family members touch base with each frequently with their cell phones and they use those phones to coordinate family life on the fly during their busy lives.”
More results:
• 70 percent of couples in which both partners own a cell phone contact each other daily to say hello or chat; 54% of couples who have one or no cell phones do this at least once a day.
• 64 percent of couples in which both partners own a cell phone contact each other daily to coordinate their schedules; 47% of couples who have one or no cell phones do this at least once a day.
• 42 percent of parents contact their child/children on a daily basis using a cell phone, making cell phones the most popular communications tool between parents and children.
For a look at the full report, click here.
