University of California Los Angeles

Today's adolescents are active co-creators of their own media environments. In August of 2025, we asked 1,500 adolescents (ages 10-24) about their perceptions, opinions, and beliefs about various types of popular media, including TV shows, movies, video games, and digital media. Main findings include:

To understand and quantify the pattern and magnitude of the pandemic’s effect on young students, this research brief examines the digital divide in virtual learning by analyzing survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The major findings include: