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ANID/PIA/Basal Funds for Centers of Excellence: FB0003 ANID -National Research and Development Agency under Grant FONDECYT: 11150341 Ministry of Education UNESCO

This article presents a study that applies integrated and multi-factor path analysis to report the direct and indirect effects of young Brazilian individual and home factors on their online opportunities and risks. The results show that engaging in more online opportunities, being older and having a lower level of parental mediation are associated with a higher number of online risks. At the same time, being older, having Internet access at home, having parents with a higher educational level, possessing more digital skills and receiving a higher level of co-use and active parental mediation are positively associated with online opportunities. Although restrictive parental mediation is negatively associated with online risks, it also reduces opportunities. In addition, co-use and active mediation are positively associated with parental educational level. These findings offer a starting point to understand children’s online behaviour and digital inclusion in Latin America and analyse its differences with other regions.

The focus of the debate and study of the digital divide has switched from infrastructure and material access to engagement and its consequences for social inclusion. The concept of the digital divi...

Through a crosslongitudinal news content analysis (N= 2,431) of social affairs coverage by the national press in Chile between 1990 and 2010, this article characterizes the use of sources and actors, as well as the presence of the “infotainment” and “civic” journalistic models. The results show significant differences in the use of actores and sources, as well as an important evolution in the presence of both the “civic” and the “ infotainment” modelo of journalism in social affairs news coverage.