BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- New research conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 8- to 18-year-olds spend more time engaged with media than doing any other activity besides, perhaps, sleeping.

Over the past five years, young people have increased the amount of time they spend consuming media by over an hour a day.

On average, tweens and teens now spend over 7-and-a-half hours every day watching or listening to media. Use of every type of media has increased over the past 10 years, with the exception of reading and watching movies in a theater.

Television still dominates, although live TV watching is down. And when it comes to cell phones, young people now spend more time using their phones to consume media than to talk.

The researchers said that rules restricting media use work, but few parents impose them. For instance, young people without a television set in their bedroom watch about an hour less of live TV a day.