Percepción de los y las menores de la mediación parental respecto a los riesgos en internet

Estefanía Jiménez; Maialen  Garmendia Larrañaga; Miguel Ángel  Casado del Río

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2015-1034

Authors

Estefanía Jiménez University of the País Vasco
Maialen Garmendia Larrañaga University of País Vasco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4286
Miguel Ángel Casado del Río University of the Basque Country http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1264-9336

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2015-1034

Keywords:

Teenagers, childhood, children, internet, social networks, risks

Abstract

This article addresses the role of the various agents that mediate children’s internet use: parents, teachers and peers such as classmates and friends. Method. The study is based on a qualitative approach that involved focus groups and interviews with children aged 9-16, and the analysis of children’s discourses. Results. The results focus on children’s perceptions of their relationship with their classmates, friends, teachers and parents in relation to internet use. Conclusions. Children show a high degree of awareness about the risks of the internet, and greatly value the support of their friends in solving the problems they find online. However, children do not trust their parents for the mediation of their online activities despite recognising that their parents are those who can help them out the most.

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Author Biographies

Estefanía Jiménez, University of the País Vasco

Estefanía Jiménez (1979) holds a PhD degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her research interests include audiovisual literacy, the use of social networks in children and adolescents and audience studies.

Professor at the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) since 2005. Visiting professor at ITESM and Basque Fellow at Oxford University.

Maialen Garmendia Larrañaga, University of País Vasco

Maialen Garmendia holds a PhD degree in Sociology from the University of the Basque Country, where she is Professor since 1990. Her research interests include social research techniques, audience studies and new ICTs.

Member of the Editorial board of Zer Revista de Estudios de Comunicación since 1997.

Her main fields of research are: Internet use, children and adolescents, gender differences, qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods.

Miguel Ángel Casado del Río, University of the Basque Country

Miguel Ángel Casado holds a PhD degree in Information sciences and an MA degree in European Integration from the University of the Basque Country, where he is a researcher since 2003.

He has published several articles in Spanish magazines, including Zer, Telos and Anàlisi, and chapters in international books such as “Community Media: international perspectives” and “Northern Lights. European Film and Media culture”.

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