According to Rosen, the Kaiser Family Foundation has reported a substantial increase in multitasking on media. She cites the foundation’s finding that, in 1999, 16 percent of media time (for example,...

According to Rosen, the Kaiser Family Foundation has reported a substantial increase in multitasking on media. She cites the foundation’s finding that, in 1999, 16 percent of media time (for example, watching television, surfing the Internet, or texting friends) was spent doing two or more of such tasks simultaneously. By 2005, the time spent multitasking had increased to 26 percent.

When you are multitasking, is some kind of electronic medium always involved, or do you ever multitask without using media?

Do you primarily use media multitasking to fill or kill time, or for some other reason? What percentage of time spent multitasking do you think the Kaiser Family Foundation would find if they did their report today?