Ticos privileged teenagers use cell before television – La Nacion Costa Rica

 Updated August 19, 2016 at 06:22 pm
 

Young used the phone for entertainment, but also for tasks

for the first time, the cell phone moved to television as the most commonly used Ticos adolescents technology.

that realizes one of the research published Friday 19 August, in the tenth report of the Program Information Society and Knowledge (PROSIC), University of Costa Rica (UCR).

Although the study was sampling by criteria, ie it can not be extrapolated to the entire national population, the results themselves are a “snapshot” of technology use makes this age group.

Rolando Pérez was the investigator who was in charge of the survey applied to 628 young people between 14 and 16 years, students from public and private schools.

the survey was conducted in the Large area . metropolitan and some rural areas of San José, Cartago, Heredia and Puntarenas

During the presentation of the report, Perez said: “This is the first time in 15 years that we have to be measuring such issues, this change arises. Television has been moved to second place, followed by laptop and music player. “

Purpose. . Due to the relevance of the phone for teenagers, the research focused on the uses to which these give you

In that sense, the study identified the four most important: oriented communication through social networks; the basics: making calls and sending messages (SMS); . The entertainment and educational purposes, such as finding information for homework assignments

Read: 55% of young people consider cell is most important tool of their lives

also, some differences in their use, both by gender and by type of school and place of residence were identified.

Thus, generally speaking, women in urban areas seems that are most used the phone to access social networks. While girls public schools, are more inclined to send SMS or make calls.

Using cell for school purposes also it seems to occur more in women, especially those living in rural areas. “This is important, because often seen only as a cell factor of access to communication or entertainment,” said Rolando Perez

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By Meanwhile, men are more likely to use the phone as a medium for entertainment.

Facebook. the study also evaluated what kind of actions carried out by young people in the social network Facebook and identified that the search for information is one of the main uses.

This can be focused itself (navigate on their own profiles), see what other people and even to learn about the country’s reality and what happens in the world

the second most important activity is the profile update.; the third is to show empathy for his friends (to like ) and even offer advice to others using this platform.

            

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