De brechas, pobrezas y apropiaciones. Juventud, Sectores Populares y TIC en la Argentina

Abstract

Based on a research dedicated to assess the impact of public access to computers and Internet on urban poor youth in Argentina, this paper discusses those concepts that are commonly used in Poverty and ICT studies. Notions such as Digital Divide, Digital Poverty and Appropriation are analyzed as well as the strategies used by these groups to with ICT to compensate for their lack of access to equipment, connectivity and competencies. Youth practices and meanings attached to these technologies in their daily life are recovered in the work. Following this theoretical analysis and with the fieldwork results of the research the work addresses the problems surrounding a-critical extrapolations of the “digital natives” metaphor in such complex local realities.

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