La generación interactiva en Argentina: Niños y adolescentes ante las pantallas

Abstract

Affinity of children with screens- internet, mobile phones, videogames and television- has aroused a lot of interest at the time that it challenges educators, legislators and society as a whole to protect this age group in a changing and uncontrolled cyberworld. This article presents the main results obtained during the Interactive Generations project that took place between September 2007 and March 2008, and that interviewed 6-18 years old minors, in urban environments in Argentina. It is one of the biggest existing researches about this field until now in the country. Results offer at a glance a first image of how Argentinean minors are using those screens that will be useful to develop further research or normative implementations.