Children’s Participation in Colombia

Uses, Perceptions, and Feelings of the Media Environment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12969321
AutoresRocío López‐Ordosgoitia (0000-0002-5937-941X, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, autor de correspondencia), Diana Alexandra Giraldo-Cadavid (0000-0003-2154-9425, Universidad del Valle), Diana Marcela Aristizábal García (0000-0001-7591-4454, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogota), Andrea Lafaurie Molina (0000-0002-6686-2194, Universidad del Norte)
Año2023
Volumen15
Número1
Páginas74-103
Fecha de publicación2023-05-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJeunesse Young People Texts Cultures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1920-2601 • E-ISSN: 1920-261X
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jeunesse-2022-0024
OpenAlexW4378416731
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas32

Children’s participation in the digital environment is gaining more attention as children seem to be active audiences, selecting and developing digital skills to access and interact across multiple platforms and devices. Nonetheless, little is known about media participation from the children’s perspective. This article presents the quantitative results of a survey of 244 children aged seven to fourteen years in Colombia about their perception of media use as a form of participation. The study’s results suggest that there is a varied range of media uses for different purposes that are not exclusive to just one device or one type of media. These results are significant as they show the way children look at their media landscape and engage with it. The authors also identify children’s perception of participation as well as their feelings regarding their media engagement. This research gives particular impetus to efforts aimed at recognizing the meanings of children’s participation in the media environment beyond the political and the civic duties to the social and the playful, incorporating children’s perceptions, experiences, and roles in society

Civic engagement · Digital media · Feeling · Perception · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Child Development and Digital Technology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology