The journalism university student and his profile as an internet user. Comparative analysis between Spain and Mexico

Abstract

The objective of this research is to carry out a comparative analysis of the self-perceptions about the digital capacities of students who are studying in person the journalism degree at the University of Seville, Spain and the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico. The methodology is descriptive and non-experimental, transectional, based on a census through the application of an instrument that divides proposals and considerations into four dimensions: ICT skills, information literacy, communication skills and capacity in content generation. The main emphasis in the theoretical approach is not exclusively the students, or "digital natives", but the teachers of the same area, since special emphasis is made on the need for digital literacy that the teacher must have to achieve satisfactory communication between native and not digital native. The results provide a heterogeneous and nuanced scenario, but, in turn, reveal significant findings and similarities in the preferences, connection times and technologies used by both groups of students, despite the chasm found in family income among students from Mexico and Spain.