Techtots generation::TV? Kids these days watch cell phones, iPods, computers

As boomer experts continue to debate the effects of watching television, many preschoolers yawned and moved on: Linear TV is so last millennium.

Instead, tots can watch "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!" cartoon podcasts on an iPod, check out streaming video of "Blue's Clues" on the computer, view clips of Playhouse Disney on a cellphone or insist on "Barney and Friends" at any hour from video on demand.

Remember when having cable TV was cool? Now kids as young as 2 interact "across platforms" in this new era of a "changing digital children's media landscape."

"Children are platform agnostic," said Alice Cahn, vice president of development for Cartoon Network. "If you want to look foolish with a preschooler, say, 'Sorry, you can't watch that. It's not on.' It's TiVoed, it's online, it's on video on demand. 'Appointment viewing' is not part of their lexicon and never will be. There's not a sense that television has any primacy with them."

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