ABSTRACT
In this chapter we look into the media environment in the homes and bedrooms of children and teenagers in 11 European countries and Israel. Information about media in the household enables us to map out the adoption of new media (in the light of old media) among those groups known to be relatively early media adopters, that is, families with children. In addition, we have information about the personal ownership by children of media. We are therefore able to contribute a detailed comparative account of how far the diffusion process has advanced for families as a whole in our 12 countries, and for children within these families. Has the information age really arrived, we ask, in the day-to-day media worlds of European children and adolescents?
