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Session 8, Analysing teenagers as potential partners in a moving society
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2003-09-19
13:00-14:30
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This research project is the continuation of another project carried out with the support of the SIFKaL (Safer Internet for Knowing and Living) Project financed by the Safer Internet Action Plan. In this case, adolescent use of the Internet in cyber cafés was investigated, with the aim of comparing these uses with those that have been identified in the home. The project was carried out using ethnographic research in a cyber café and semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescent users. This research is backed up by two basic ideas, on the one hand, that of 'contexts of Internet use' meaning that the Internet fundamentally has to be analysed in the social contexts in which it is found; secondly, that understanding informal uses of the Internet is essential when trying to integrate the Internet into more formal contexts such as schools. The research doesn't only compare the various uses that adolescents make of the Internet at home and in the cyber café, but also the motives that underlie these uses, the value that they attribute to one use or another, the dangers that they detect, the type and meaning of the social relationships they establish, and the norms they use or establish in either of the situations. For example, we can highlight the following: - Whilst the home allows a more private use of the Internet, adolescents confirm that cyber cafés allow a more social use converting Internet use into an opportunity to meet up with friends; something that is more difficult to do in the home. In this case, chats are accessed en masse, so that the group of friends chats together and not individually. - The use of the Internet in cyber cafés implies the use of a space for group relationships and gatherings; this collective sense of space is still maintained even during individual use of the Internet connection. In this case, adolescents communicate with each other, share their screens and ask each other about what they are doing.
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