• The mobile phone holds the power of ubiquity. Across the developing world, around 40% of people now actively subscribe to mobile services. Well over 50% have access to a mobile, despite not owning one. Access to mobile services in the developing world has outpaced the rate at which much of the population is gaining […]
Growing up with social media
A very visual display of social media use:
The Participation and Web Visibility of University Digital Repositories in the European Context
This study focuses on academic institutional repositories as tools that allow us open access to scientific and academic production. Specifically, we analyze the Top 50 European University repositories differentiating, firstly, those repositories linked to Spanish universities compared to those belonging to universities throughout Europe and, secondly, repositories that only include research content as opposed to […]
Cultural Diversity across the Networks: The Case of National Cinema
The research «Cinema, Diversity and Networks» tries to isolate the principal stimuli or reticences in the consumption of products generated by small cinematographies, analyzing the particular case of the diffusion through the digital interactive networks of cinematographic contents produced in Galicia. It is a multicentral investigation with the collaboration of the universities of Argentina, Brazil […]
Disability in the Perception of Technology among University Students
There is a widespread discourse across academic and scientific literature extolling the benefits of technology as an element of the educational process for people with disabilities that is based on many assumptions and implicit claims related to the «education, disability and technology» triangle. Although these assumptions and claims have a rationale, too often they have […]
The Notion of Violence in Television Fiction: Children’s Interpretation
In this paper we analyse child viewers’ interpretation of television violence shown in television programmes specifically aimed at children. The justification for this work is based on the research that considers that more theoretical and empirical studies need to be carried out on the conceptualisation of violence, and about how much violence is legitimised and […]
Communication Technology in the Home Environment of Four-year-old Children (Slovenia)
Nowadays, we cannot ignore the fact that young children are over flooded with technologies. Only a proper action and a positive attitude from adults can prevent potential negative consequences, and prepares the child for a life where the usage of communication technologies (ICTs) is necessary for an individual’s social success. This article represents the child’s […]
Intimacy and «Extimacy» in Social Networks. Ethical Boundaries of Facebook
The current paper aims to analyze how certain Facebook settings, model of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), have turned into an infringement of some existing privacy Ethical principles. This totally changed and modern paradigm has its clearest expression in recent Web 2.0, and omnipotent Communication Technology, and implies the reconsideration of each Ethical Principles, […]
The Reasons for Non-Use of Social Networking Websites by University Students
Although social networking websites (SNSs, especially Facebook) have become highly popular with youths, some university students do not want to participate in such sites. This study explores the underlying reasons for high-tech university students’ non-use of social networking websites. The study group (n=20) consisted of 18 to 25-year-old undergraduate students, who were selected by the […]
Connecting Generations. A Research and Learning Approach for Media Education and Audience Studies
Based on theoretical and methodological orientations from authors’ previous research on media and generations, this article presents a research and learning process involving supervised field work conducted by graduate students from a Master Seminar on Media Studies at FCSH, New University of Lisbon. Acting as facilitators of focus groups composed of older participants, exploring intergenerational […]
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