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Las personas que tienen propensión a fijar altas expectativas de lo que se debe hacer, excesiva evaluación crítica y preocupación ante incurrir en errores, es lo que se determina como perfeccionismo. Si a ello se le añade la obligación de dominio en las competencias digitales durante el periodo de los estudios superiores, los estudiantes universitarios podrán mostrar mayores preocupaciones, demandas, esfuerzos y pensamientos automáticos perfeccionistas en función del uso diario o esporádico de internet, pues el afán de querer hacerlo todo bien puede generar la frustración personal e inactividad. Esta investigación fue diseñada para identificar las diferencias estadísticamente significativas y la probabilidad de presentar altas puntuaciones en pensamientos automáticos en función del uso de internet. La muestra reclutada fue de 3.060 participantes universitarios de edades comprendidas entre los 19 y 24 años. Se analizaron las competencias digitales mediante el Test Ikanos y los pensamientos automáticos perfeccionistas a través del Perfeccionistic Cognitions Inventory (PCI). El análisis estadístico utilizado fue el análisis de varianza (ANOVA) y la regresión logística por pasos adelante mediante el estadístico de Wald, revelando valores de la Odd Ratio (OR) de .96. En conclusión, los hallazgos arrojaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las variables Demandas Perfeccionistas, Esfuerzos Perfeccionistas y la puntuación total en Pensamientos automáticos perfeccionistas según la frecuencia del uso de internet.

Objective: to evaluate the use of the internet by patients to access health information and the possible implications for the physician-patient relationship. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study carried out in April and May 2022 in Anápolis, Goiás. A validated questionnaire on internet use was used in the study. The G test was applied to associate internet use with sex and age group, with a significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results: among the 109 patients, there was a prevalence of females (80.7%), aged 18 to 59 years (83.5%), with complete high school (42.2%). Most spend between two and four hours a day on the Internet (68.0%; p=0.992) and had already searched for health information on the Internet (84.4%; p=0.095), especially about medications (86.2%; p=0.940). Participants of sexes used the internet for a second opinion on the medical diagnosis (men - 52.4%; women - 68.2%; p=0.185), but did not discuss their searches carried out on the internet with the doctors (men - 57, 1%; women - 86.4%; p=0.005). Conclusion: the Internet has been used quite frequently by patients to access health information, but they do not discuss their findings with professionals, which tends to weaken the doctor-patient relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Los primeros estudios experimentales sobre el uso de Internet revelaron un efecto negativo de este sobre la acumulación de capital social. Desde entonces, muchos estudios han identificado efectos positivos. Estos resultados poco concluyentes se deben a la diversidad de usos de Internet, la ambigüedad conceptual del término ‘capital social’, la falta de estudios sobre diferentes culturas, y las limitaciones metodológicas de la inferencia causal. En este estudio, aplicamos inferencia causal estadística a datos del Asian Barometer Survey para estudiar si el uso de las redes sociales para conectar con otras personas incrementa el capital social en cuatro países y territorios de Asia Oriental. Hallamos resultados dispares, sin efectos claramente positivos en el impacto del uso de las redes sociales sobre la participación en asociaciones y la confianza en general. En cambio, vemos que el uso de las redes sociales incrementa el tamaño de la red interpersonal de forma bastante consistente. También analizamos las repercusiones de estos resultados.

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Adolescents are currently the age group that devotes the most time to using the Internet and are the most vulnerable to its harmful use. Fostering strategies aimed at reducing anxiety and depression, and increasing self-steem may help reduce overuse of new technologies. Using the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use Among High School Students in Spain, we analyze, estimating a linear Seemingly Unrelated Regression system, the time devoted by Spanish teenagers to the following online activities: email and messaging, social networking, games, gambling and pornographic and violent websites. The results suggest that fostering the practice of sports and advising parents about the benefits of caring relationships with their children can be useful strategies to reduce the time devoted to new digital technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Internet use has been growing in the last years, and it is expected it continues expanding all over the world. Its adoption and usage are changing the way individuals interact and relate to others, and to themselves, but also their Wellbeing perception. The present study aims to analyze sociodemographic aspects such as gender, age, education, income source or country, related to the Internet use and how it impacts on Wellbeing perception. By this way, based on records from the European Social Survey - year 2016, it has been examined the relationship of Internet use and WB perception through Life Satisfaction and Happiness self-report evaluation of individuals involved in the survey. Moreover, sociodemographic factors as age, gender, education, income source or country have been examined. Several statistical studies as the ANOVA test of one factor (P-value 0.000), post-hoc Bonferroni-Tukey’ tests, or comparison tests for column proportions, when it is required, have been considered to each analysis. Results conclude, among others, that individuals that never use the internet, increase life satisfaction and happiness with increasing the frequency of internet use. And also, the internet use influences different individuals WB attending their interval age. Further results and conclusions are presented for discussion.

Nowadays, parents must develop strategies to accompany their children in the use of digital technologies. The reason for this is that the internet is a social space. Online life offers possibilities for individual and social development, but it also promotes the emergence of new risks such as sexting, cyberbullying, and cyber dependence. There are two ways parents can guide their children: parental mediation and parental control. Parental mediation is the set of actions that parents take to manage the use and consumption of the media by their sons and daughters. There are three types of parental mediation: restrictive mediation, permissive mediation, and active mediation. In this context, this research aims to correlate mediation and parental control strategies with their use of the internet for children and adolescents. The EU Kids Online survey was used to achieve this goal. This questionnaire was adapted for the Colombian population through expert review and cognitive validation to children and adolescents in Medellin, Cali, and Cartagena (Colombia). The adaptation followed the procedures and standards of Kids Online Brasil and Kids Online Chile. The stratified and non-probabilistic sample consisted of 303 children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years from ten cities in Colombia. The results indicate that the more parental control, the shorter the child connection time. Whether it's behavioral or psychological control. While the greater the psychological control of the mother, the greater the presence of addictive behaviors of children and adolescents to the internet and cell phone. Besides, the more psychological control of the mother, the more risky behaviors the children assume. Conversely, if the mother performs greater behavioral control, the presence of risky behaviors in the child is less. Also, restrictive control of internet use has a higher relationship with a lower presence of general risk behaviors and lower risks assumed by children on the internet. This was also related to high rates of restrictive mediation by parents. As conclusions, it is possible to say that any type of control that parents exercise over their children's use of the internet (restrictive, co-visioned or technical) is related to shorter connection time and less cell phone addiction. Besides, a conflicting relationship with the mother increases the addictive behaviors of the internet and the smartphone. Especially when the kind of control the mother exerts is psychological. Whereas, if the mother exerts greater behavioral control, the presence of risky behaviors in the child is less. This research could serve as the basis for the design and implementation of psychoeducational training programs for parents and caregivers aimed at developing effective parental mediation skills and strate gies to guide children and adolescents in their use of digital technologies. Also, the findings of this study could lay the scientific basis for the presentation of social projects that impact public policies on the responsible and healthy use of the internet. Moreover, when Colombia has a Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and media outreach strategies on ICT care. Finally, researches done in psychology about this topic are limited in Latin America. For this reason, the findings of this work are a significant step forward on the explanation of ITC use in the region from a disciplinary point of view. This article seeks to encourage researchers to continue to advance their knowledge of the relationships between parental mediation and the use of the internet by children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Personal values influence the behavior, feelings, and lives of individuals, but also, Internet use which penetration is expected it continues expanding all over the world. Values determine attitudes and behaviors of individuals and they also affect relationships people maintain with others and themselves. Furthermore, those relations are as well influenced by the adoption and usage of the internet, what is changing the way individuals interact and relate. So, both, values and internet use, impact on individuals Wellbeing (WB) perception. The present study analyses the influence of personal values on internet use and WB perception on a sample of 33,123 respondents of the European Social Survey (2016), 51 % of female respondents and 47.9 % male aged 15 and over, from different European countries. By this way, first, an Exploratory Factorial Analysis has been applied on data related to personal values, and four different profiles have been defined. Second, there have been individually analyzed and correlated the level of internet use and life satisfaction individuals report to analyze their influence on each profile. Finally, the interaction of both variables has been considered. When p-value is significative (p < .05) individual profile moderate relationship between internet use and life satisfaction. Results demonstrate personal values influence internet use and life satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabajo es el resultado de la comparación de indicadores asociados a la Internet entre Brasil, Colombia y España, con el objeto de realizar una discusión analítica, en lo concerniente al acceso, los usos o aplicaciones, y las razones de no acceso. Así se profundiza la discusión en las barreras que tienen las personas en Internet como herramienta de acceso a la información y la comunicación, llevando la discusión hacia las competencias infocomunicacionales, factor base para la inclusión y participación social hoy en día. Para esto se tomaron datos de fuentes nacionales e internacionales, como DANE, CETIC, INE, ITU y, EUROSTAT, usando informes entre 2015 y 2017 que registran o estudian el comportamiento de las personas en Internet, identificando variables comunes en el tiempo para los procesos comparativos realizados. Los datos muestran que el acceso mejora en cada país, con diferencias en la calidad del tipo de servicio recibido en la conexión de Internet. Sin embargo, el aprovechamiento está más orientado a la generación de mensajes dentro de contextos sociales, sin pasar al siguiente nivel que implica utilizar las potencialidades de Internet en la generación de bienestar económico o social. Se puede concluir que no todos los usuarios logran transformar la información y usar los medios de comunicación en beneficio grupal o individual, es decir, el desarrollo de la competencia infocomunicacional no es del todo evidente plenamente. Además, falta información que permita demostrar de forma concreta estos avances en las competencias a nivel país. Los usos y motivos varían, así como las formas de acceso en cada país, junto al seguimiento que hace cada Gobierno, todo influenciado por las políticas públicas nacionales que allí se desarrollan y los factores económicos que afectan un Estado.

Internet y los dispositivos electrónicos han estado presentes en la vida académica de los universitarios en el estado de Tabasco. Este escrito busca determinar el empleo que ellos les dan en la redacción de sus escritos para la asignatura metodología. Para ello se hizo un estudio empírico basado en una muestra intencional o de conveniencia de 200 estudiantes de la mencionada asignatura, quienes señalan que encuentran en internet un apoyo para la realización de sus trabajos de investigación. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron dos cuestionarios aplicados en diferentes momentos durante los meses de octubre de 2014 a febrero de 2016. Se trata, por tanto, de un estudio de corte cuantitativo, analítico-exploratorio que describe los efectos del uso de internet en la redacción de trabajos académicos. Los resultados apuntan hacia el nacimiento de una nueva forma de aprendizaje mediada por la utilización de la tecnología, ya que ésta, que debería ser un apoyo para el estudio, se ha convertido más en un medio para la comunicación, que una herramienta de trabajo. En conclusión, las nuevas generaciones experimentan vivencias que han moldeado los hábitos y costumbres que habían sido tradicionales, desarrollando nuevos modos de ejercitarse y esforzarse a través del uso de internet.

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Introduction: most adolescents use the Internet without any impact on their health, however some people in this population group may present a loss of control over the use of it, which can lead to a problematic use and even an addiction to the Internet. Objective: to identify the types of Internet use in high school students, the possible causes and its relationship with impulsivity. Method: an observational, transversal, analytical and ex post facto study was performed in a stratified sample of 123 middle school students and 125 high school students aged 12 to 18 enrolled in two schools in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, using the Internet Addiction Test by Young, in Spanish. Results: 83% of the students present control over the use of the Internet, 17% presented a problematic use and no Internet addiction was found. The problematic use was higher among middle school students (23%) than among high school students (10%). Impulsivity was not statistically significant related with a problematic use of Internet, but using it more than six hours and using it exclusively for social networks were positive indicators. Discussion and conclusions: there was no significant relationship between impulsivity and problematic use of the Internet; however, the associated risk factors may cause a decrease of students’ family and social interaction. The findings of this work can be a guide for future lines of research that deepen the knowledge of this problem.----------------------- Introducción: la mayoría de los adolescentes usa Internet sin que esto repercuta en su salud; sin embargo, algunos pueden presentar pérdida de control sobre la manera en la que utilizan este medio, lo que conlleva a un uso problemático que puede derivar en adicción. Objetivo: identificar los tipos de uso de Internet en estudiantes de secundaria y bachillerato, sus posibles causas y su relación con la impulsividad. Método: se realizó un estudio observacional, transversal, analítico y ex post facto en una muestra estratificada de 123 estudiantes de secundaria y 125 de bachillerato, de entre 12 y 18 años de edad, inscritos en dos escuelas de Xalapa, Veracruz, México; se utilizó la prueba de Adicción a Internet de Young en español. Resultados: 83% de los estudiantes presentó control sobre el uso de Internet, 17% mostró un uso problemático y no se encontró adicción a la red. El uso problemático fue mayor entre los estudiantes de secundaria (23%), que entre los de bachillerato (10%). La impulsividad no fue estadísticamente significativa para presentar un uso problemático, pero sí lo fueron indicadores como estar conectado más de seis horas y el empleo exclusivo de Internet para consultar y relacionarse en las redes sociales. Discusión y conclusiones: no se encontró una relación significativa entre impulsividad y uso problemático de Internet; sin embargo, los factores de exposición pueden explicar que el individuo disminuya el contacto con su entorno familiar y social. Los hallazgos de este trabajo pueden constituir una guía para futuras líneas de investigación que profundicen en el conocimiento de este problema.

Ese trabajo examina el efecto del origen familiar sobre el tiempo y el tipo de uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) por parte de los estudiantes españoles. A través de un análisis de la frecuencia y el tipo de uso de las TIC con datos obtenidos directamente de los estudiantes, nuestro estudio ofrece evidencia novedosa del impacto de la educación de los padres sobre el tiempo y el tipo de uso de las TIC para una muestra de estudiantes españoles. Ponemos de manifiesto que un mayor nivel educativo de los padres reduce el tiempo de uso de las TIC por parte del estudiante y, a la vez, aumenta su propensión a utilizarlas con fines educativos. Otro hallazgo empírico de la investigación es que el grado de homogamia educativa en la pareja ejerce un efecto adicional en la variable dependiente.

Academic work based on the Internet use is for the most part divided in two important groups: risks and opportunities, and thus separating online activities, which can negatively affect people, from those activities that can be beneficial. This article allows for a broad comprehension of the phenomenon thanks to the bibliometric analysis of a sample of 5,082 articles taken from Web of Science (WoS) and SciELO-CI Citation Index (SciELO-CI) databases. Beyond the polarized view of the problem, the article presents information related to the evolution of the subject from a global perspective that incorporates risks as well as opportunities, which are useful in investigations which are interested in the adoption and appropriation of the information technologies and communication in diverse areas of knowledge.

The diversity, complexity and changing nature of parental mediation practices for adolescent online use contribute to the failure to achieve a consensual typology among scientific community. Over twenty-six interviews with parents of adolescent and preadolescent children (from 9 to 17 years) of the Community of Madrid, this work aims to update the types of intervention of parents to mediate the use of their children's Internet, paying special attention to emerging strategies linked to the extension of mobile devices and social networks. The results point to: the preference for a model of remote supervision, or deference, in which parents prefer to limit their intervention, trusting that their children will be responsible with their use of the Internet; model that reconcile well with respect for the privacy of adolescents. A new practice consisting of co-use promoted by parents to generate shared positive experiences that foster the child's learning is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The intensive use of the Internet can contribute to the development of serious psychosocial dysfunctions in adolescents. The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationships between achievement perceived with the leisure use of the internet, parenting, and externalized and internalized problems during adolescence (aggressiveness reactive, proactive, physical and verbal, affiliation with deviant peers and emotional instability). The sample is made of 762 adolescents from 12 to 17 years old (M = 13.69, SD = 1.40), with 52.8% of males and 47.2% of females. The use of internet in leisure time is between 0-98 hours per week. Hence the population has been distributed in quartiles. The variables have been obtained through standardized tests. Statistical analyzes are descriptive and predictive methodology. The analyses carried out have allowed us to obtain three conclusions. First, the number of hours of internet for recreational purposes is related to worse achievement perceived of the adolescent. Second, it has been found that adolescents who use Internet intensively greater perceived permissiveness of the parents and a lower support and communication with them. These adolescents present an increased risk of joining deviant peers and have higher rates of emotional instability and aggressiveness (reactive, proactive, and physical and verbal). Third, more punitive parenting, aggressiveness and affiliation with deviant peers boost the intensive use of the internet. This empirical research corroborates the need for adequate training aimed at fostering parental-child support and communication to educate the rational and responsible use of the Internet by both parents and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabajo examina el uso y la eficiencia con la que padres y madres colombianos utilizan recursos web como apoyo en la educación de sus hijos. Participaron un total de 225 progenitores mediante un cuestionario on-line. Los resultados muestran que el nivel de estudios y, en menor medida, el sexo de los padres y la edad de los hijos modulan el uso y los contenidos educativos a los que acceden en la web, así como la capacidad para llevar a cabo búsquedas más eficientes, hallar páginas web más apropiadas y evaluar con mejores criterios los resultados encontrados. La existencia de estas brechas digitales pone en riesgo la efectividad de los recursos web como apoyo universal a la educación de los hijos e hijas en sectores de familias con mayores vulnerabilidades culturales y de desigualdad de género

Cada vez son más los adolescentes que comienzan a usar Internet debido al ritmo vertiginoso con que se digitaliza nuestra sociedad. Sus primeros contactos con esta herramienta se producen mayormente en el ámbito escolar debido a su obligada utilización para el aprendizaje en cuanto a nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) se refiere. Un uso desadaptado puede provocar la aparición de conductas desadaptivas, como bullying, o ciberbullying. Parece necesario investigar sobre el clima social en el aula y la familia, como escenarios directos, donde los hijos se desarrollan en un ambiente afectivo influyendo en ellos las pautas de comportamiento de padres y profesores. Dependiendo de cómo sea su educación así desarrollará unas pautas sociales o antisociales. Para prevenir, es importante investigar sobre los factores que predisponen o advierten una sintomatología en el uso desadaptado de Internet.

The goal of this cross-cultural study was to analyze and compare the cybervictimization and cyberaggression scores, and the problematic Internet use between Spain, Colombia and Uruguay. Despite cultural similarities between the Spanish and the South American contexts, there are few empirical studies that have comparatively examined this issue. The study sample consisted of 2,653 subjects aged 10-18 years. Data was collected through the cyberbullying questionnaire and the Spanish version of the "Revised generalized and problematic Internet use scale". Results showed a higher prevalence of minor cyberbullying behavior in Spain between 10-14 years. In the three countries compared, there was a higher prevalence of two types of bystanders: the defender of the victim and the outsider, although in Colombia there were more profiles of assistant to the bully. Regarding the problematic use of the Internet, there were not differences between the three countries. We provide evidence on the relationship between cybervictimization and cyberaggression and problematic use of the Internet. The dimensions of compulsive use and regulation of mood are the best predictors of cyberbullying. We discuss our results in relation to the possible normalization of violence and its lack of recognition as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El estudio tiene como objetivo conocer la probabilidad de presentar adicción y los factores determinantes sobre el uso problemático del internet en estudiantes universitarios en la ciudad de H. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Metodología: La población fue de 1,125 estudiantes y una muestra de 323, en una universidad pública, el instrumento utilizado fue el “Cuestionario de Uso Problemático de Internet” (CUPI) con un Alfa de Cronbach de 0.966, el diseño de estudio fue descriptivo, transversal. Resultados: se encontró que el factor de determinante “Anticipación” fue el que presento una mayor probabilidad de presentarse, y los de menor fueron “Pérdida de Control” y “Reconocimiento de Falta de Control.”

Durante los últimos años ha aumentado en forma significativa el acceso y uso de internet en Chile, lo cual sin duda genera cambios importantes en varias dimensiones de la sociedad. Gracias a internet, hoy es posible realizar desde el hogar muchas actividades que antes requerían presencia física en otros lugares, lo cual tiene el potencial de aumentar la productividad y también la innovación en la economía. Para que ello ocurra es indispensable tener acceso a internet y también que su uso esté asociado a actividades productivas. Sin embargo, la existencia de ‘brechas digitales’ entre distintos grupos de la sociedad puede dificultar este proceso, lo cual justificaría la intervención del Estado para incentivar el acceso a internet. En general, existe poca información sistemática respecto al acceso y uso de internet en Chile. A partir de dos encuestas de hogares únicas en Chile, en este trabajo se describe la evolución entre 2008 y 2010, tanto del acceso como del uso de internet, y se analizan empíricamente sus determinantes. Creemos que contar con este análisis empírico constituye un aspecto previo imprescindible para un posterior estudio de distintas alternativas de políticas públicas que se consideren respecto al acceso y uso de internet.

Objetivo: Describir las características del uso de Internet por estudiantes del internado de Medicina de cuatro universidades de Lima Metropolitana. Material y métodos: Estudio descriptivo transversal basado en una encuesta validada. Se incluyeron en el estudio los resultados de 192 encuestas (Tasa de respuesta 83,5%), de una muestra estratificada. Resultados: Todos los estudiantes indicaron usar Internet. La edad promedio de los alumnos fue 24,8 ± 1,8 años, 46,9% fueron del sexo femenino y 43,8% provenían de universidades estatales. El acceso fue 80,2% desde su casa, 26,6% desde cabinas públicas, 21,9% desde la universidad y 10,9% desde el hospital. El acceso desde casa fue mayor en los estudiantes de universidades privadas (p

La televisión sigue siendo el medio de comunicación más consumido por los españoles. Ahora bien, tras esta primera afirmación se encuentra una sociedad con importantes diferencias a la hora de relacionarse con los medios de comunicación. Un análisis cluster de los resultados de la Encuesta de Empleo del Tiempo 2009-2010 realizada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística ha desvelado cuatro grupos o dietas mediáticas. Cada dieta articula diferentes cantidades de consumo televisivo, uso de medios digitales –ordenador o internet– y consumo de otros medios en la vida diaria. Asimismo, el trabajo muestra la importancia en la configuración de tales dietas de los ingresos del hogar, el tipo de hogar, la relación con la actividad y la edad. Por último, el sexo aparece no tanto como criterio diferenciador de dietas mediáticas, como criterio que explica distintas relaciones con otras actividades dentro de cada dieta mediática.

The advent of the Internet and social web tools has led to changes in social relations that have also affected the Public Services. The concept of transparency makes sense in the framework of a general need for a more open government, where networked citizens demand for more active participation in public affairs. This notion suggests a new relationship between the public administration and its citizens. Internet has opened new pathways to access information; however, such access needs to be measured. In this sense, transparency requires ratings and parameters to be quantified or measured. This study proposes a transparency ranking for municipalities with more than 30,000 inhabitants in the Galicia - North Portugal Euroregion. Thus, the study sample consists of a total of 44 websites of 32 Portuguese and 12 Spanish municipalities. The scorecard used evaluates the information provided by members of the municipality and other local governing bodies; information about the council itself (with special focus on economic transparency) and forms of communication on the website and social media. The analysis was conducted during the month of March 2015, as no municipal elections took place in any of the countries. The result is a ranking that compares municipal transparency, with detailed scores for each of the items in the scorecard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the use of social networks by students of Communication in Costa Rica and Colombia. The main objective is to understand the level of knowledge that students of Communication have of social networking in order to contribute to the redesign of curricula, develop educational strategies and categorize the students' use of the Web 2.0. We have carried out surveys and focus groups with a sample of 112 students from Costa Rica and 71 from Colombia. The research results show that students of Communication and future journalists give great importance to social networks as sources of journalistic information. Students also affirm that social networks have transformed their professional, social and personal life. The findings suggest that universities need to make a major commitment to media literacy and they should focus more on the critical aspects related to the contents than on the acquisition of instrumental techniques or skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]