Mobile phones, social networks and digital praxis in adolescents
Abstract
The association of mobile phones and social networks during adolescence surpasses technological considerations. These practices, while extremely common and ubiquitous in adolescents’ daily lives, are relatively invisible to teachers and families. It is, therefore, necessary to establish a roadmap in the design of educational proposals enhanced by mobile technologies. Through a quantitative longitudinal descriptive study, levels of use and behavior with mobile phones are identified in a sample (N=645) of Secondary School and Baccalaureate students. Special attention, which we disaggregate by gender and education level, is paid to the most commonly used apps and to time of use. Results show that the mobile phone is not only identified as an information storage system, but it is also used for a communicative purpose (social media) which is supported by image editing applications (photography-video) and audiovisual consumption (videos- music). In the second year of Secondary Education there is an increase in the use of apps and in the time spent using mobile phones. There are significant differences in relation to gender in the use of social media, being the value of the image an axiomatic point in this difference. Results show the threats inherent in the use of mobile phones and highlight the challenges when it comes to designing an ambitious praxis of digital literacy that contemplates responsible uses of social media, highly informed knowledge of digital content and the introduction of multimodal communication scenarios that favour sharing creative processes.
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