Los riesgos de los adolescentes en Internet: los menores como actores y víctimas de los peligros de Internet

Beatriz  Catalina García; Mª Cruz  López de Ayala López; Antonio García Jiménez

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2014-1020

Authors

Beatriz Catalina García Rey Juan Carlos University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0464-3225
Mª Cruz López de Ayala López Rey Juan Carlos University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6989-866X
Antonio García Jiménez Rey Juan Carlos University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8423-9486

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2014-1020

Keywords:

Risks, Internet, social media, adolescents

Abstract

The intensive use of the Internet among adolescents has increased concerns about the risks they face in the cyberspace. The objective of this study is to diagnose the risks faced by Spanish adolescents on the Internet, and to determine the influence of such variables as age, sex, and ownership of the school attended by minors. Method. The study is based on a representative national survey applied to 2,077 adolescents. The survey explores the risks faced by minors on the cyberspace: inappropriate content, contact with strangers, loss of privacy, cyberbullying, problematic Internet use or Internet addiction, and the safety practices adopted by adolescents. Results and conclusions. Young people’s high confidence coexists with a high involuntary exposure to inappropriate online content (pornography, violence, promotion of alcohol and drugs consumption, and eating disorders), along with the normalisation of various forms of cyberbullying. The results confirm that there is a significant percentage of adolescents that admit spending excessive time on the Internet and being addicted to certain Internet services.

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Author Biographies

Beatriz Catalina García, Rey Juan Carlos University

Holder of a Doctoral Degree in Communication Sciences from the Rey Juan Carlos University (2011). Visiting Professor in the Area of Journalism of the Rey Juan Carlos University, where she teaches subjects related to radio production and audience research.

Participant in the National R&D Project titled “Analysis of use and consumption of media and online social networks among Spanish adolescents. Characteristics and practices of risk”. Has worked as journalist in different media for more than two decades: Antena 3, Diario 16, El Mundo, Radio Nacional de Españaand Agencia Efe.

Some of her recently published research works are related to the Internet: “Hábitos de uso en Internet y en las redes sociales de los adolescentes españoles” (“Internet and social networks use habits among Spanish adolescents”), Comunicar, 41, pp. 195-204, (2013) and “Herramientas interactivas y participación ciudadana en los Ayuntamientos españoles” (“Interactive tools and citizen participation in the Spanish local governments”) Ámbitos, 22(2013).

Mª Cruz López de Ayala López, Rey Juan Carlos University

Holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology (Complutense University of Madrid) and a Doctoral Degree in Communication Sciences (Rey Juan Carlos University). Temporary Full Professor in the Area of Advertising and Audiovisual Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University, where she teaches Information Theory, Communication Management, and Communication, Childhood and Youth (at the postgraduate degree).

Member of the Communication, Society and Culture Research Group (GICOMSOC) of the Rey Juan Carlos University. Participant in research projects related to the use of information and communication technologies among adolescents, self-regulation and protection of minors in relation to television and the social use of the telephone. Other lines of research are television and family, and Internet and children.

Author of various scientific articles, book chapters and books. Her individual publications include: La familia digital (“The digital family”) (2011) and Las normas de navegación online adolescente en la familia de la modernidad tardía(“The rules of online navigation among adolescents in the family of late modernity”), Sistema, 231, pp. 81-104 (2013). Her articles include: “Hábitos de uso en Internet y en las redes sociales de los adolescentes españoles” (“Internet and social networks use habits among Spanish adolescents”), Comunicar, 41, pp. 195-204, (2013); “A vision of uses and gratifications applied to the study of Internet use by adolescents” Comunicación y Sociedad, 25 (2), pp. 231-254 (2012);“Televisión e infancia: cinco años después del código de autorregulación”(“Television and childhood: five years after the self-regulation code”, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 66, pp. 31-62 (2011)

Antonio García Jiménez, Rey Juan Carlos University

Doctor in Information Sciences from the Complutense University (1996). Professor of the Area of Journalism. He has been Dean and Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Rey Juan Carlos University, he teaches in matters related to Internet and Society, as well as Documentation, he is coordinator of the Research Group on Communication, Society and Culture (GICOMSOC He has participated and directed different research projects related to the Internet (uses and risks in adolescents, information systems and organization of information on the web, gender and Internet), with the automatic generation of language, and with the representation and perception regarding Some of his works are: "Ontologies and thesauri: representation of knowledge for the semantic web (2005)," User-centered versus system-centered evaluation of a personalization system "(2008) and" Media, representations and perceptions: the case of political women ”(2008),“ Communication and behavior in cyberspace. Attitudes and risks of adolescents (2010). "A vision of uses and gratifications" The progress of the Internet in emerging countries. Situation in interaction for the promotion of the digital society and economy ”(2012) Telos, nº 92, 33-45 (with another author). Member of the Spanish Association for Communication Research (AEIC), he has directed and co-directed various congresses, seminars and conferences on identity, communication research and on communication and youth. He is also a member of the editorial committees of several Communication and Documentation magazines.

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