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Pew finds gap in smartphone and internet use among white, African-American and Hispanic teens

By AirTalk Staff
Published Apr 9, 2015
With AFP story by Rob LEVER: US-IT-Internet-phone-technology-teenagers A group of teens check their smartphones outside the Natural History Museum in Washington on April 8, 2015. A Pew Research Center survey released found that 92 percent of US teens go online daily. The survey of teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 73 percent had a smartphone and 30 percent had at least a basic cellphone. AFP PHOTO/ NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
A group of teens check their smartphones outside the Natural History Museum in Washington on April 8, 2015. A Pew Research Center survey released found that 92 percent of US teens go online daily. The survey of teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 73 percent had a smartphone and 30 percent had at least a basic cellphone.
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Pew finds gap in smartphone and internet use among white, African-American and Hispanic teens

Pew finds notable gap in smartphone and internet use among white, African-American and Hispanic teens.

The new “Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015” report finds that nearly 75 percent of teens surveyed have or have access to a smartphone. African-American teens are mostly likely to own a smartphone, compared with 71 percent of both white and Hispanic teens.

Smartphones and tablets are the primary devices American teens used to get online, according to the report, and 92 percent of them say they go online daily. The report defines a teen as someone between the ages of 13 to 17.

Guest:

Amanda Lenhart, Associate Director of Research at the Pew Research Center. She is the author of the new pew report, “Teens Social Media & Technology Overview, 2015”