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Immigrant children and the Internet in Spain: uses, opportunities, and risks
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Abstract This article describes the use made of the Internet by immigrant children living in Spain and the opportunities and risks it involves. Specifically, it deals with children from the Maghreb, Ecuador, and Sub-Saharan Africa, three regions which account for a quarter of Spain's foreign-born population.... mehr
This article describes the use made of the Internet by immigrant children living in Spain and the opportunities and risks it involves. Specifically, it deals with children from the Maghreb, Ecuador, and Sub-Saharan Africa, three regions which account for a quarter of Spain's foreign-born population. A qualitative methodology was used, based on in-depth interviews with 52 children from these countries and educators from their support centres. Immigrant minors usually access the Internet via their smartphones rather than via computers. They have a very high rate of smartphone use and access the Internet over public Wi-Fi networks. However, they make little use of computers and tablets, the devices most closely associated with education and accessing information. Internet usage is fairly similar among immigrant and Spanish teens, although the former receive more support and mediation from their schools and institutions than from their parents. The Internet helps them to communicate with their families in their countries of origin. As one educator puts it, "they have gone from sending photos in letters to speaking to their families every day on Skype". Some teens, particularly Maghrebis, sometimes suffer from hate messages on social networks.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Migrant; Kind; Internet; Nutzung; Spanien; Jugendlicher; soziales Netzwerk; elektronische Medien
Klassifikation
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit
Migration
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 56-65
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 7 (2019) 1
Heftthema
Communicating on/with minorities
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)