The Kaiser Family Foundation will release a report on young people and new media use on March 9 in Washington D.C. Senator Hilary Rodham Cliinton will give the keynote address. This is a really important event, as it is a national study and you can see from the line-up of panelists that they tried to get a cross-section of participants. I do think they should have included at least one young media-saturated person, however.

From the press release:

Panel discussion and release of Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, a national survey of young people which measures use of TV and video, music, video games, computers, movies, and print. The study and forum explores the following questions:
- How much time do young people spend with media compared to other activities such as hanging out with parents, physical activity, and pursuing hobbies?
- What rules, if any, do parents impose on their children regarding media use?
- Has the use of “new” media such the Internet and video games affected time spent on “old” media such as TV, music, and reading?
- What kinds of media do young people prefer?
- What kind and how much media are in young people’s bedrooms?
- What is the home media environment like?

WHEN: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 9:30 – 12:00 a.m. EST

WHO: Drew Altman, President and CEO of Kaiser will discuss the implications of the findings and Vicky Rideout, who directed the study and is Vice President at Kaiser will present the detailed findings, followed by a discussion moderated by Jeff Greenfield, Senior Political Analyst at CNN with the following panelists:
- Michael Copps, Federal Communications Commission
- Common, Grammy Award-winning Hip Hop Artist
- Jordan Levin, former CEO, The WB Television Network
- Donald Roberts, author It’s Only Rock and Roll and professor at Stanford University
- Juliet Schor, author, Born to Buy and professor at Boston College
- Alain Tascan, Vice President and General Manager, Electronic Arts Montreal

WHERE: Barbara Jordan Conference Center (Kaiser Family Foundation Office)
1330 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. (one block west of Metro Center)