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Internet Universe #3. City

Internet Universe. Social networks: risks and potentials for children and teenagers

Lecture by Jordi Bernabeu

Why are the social networks so attractive to children and teenagers? What do they provide them with? How do they affect, in positive and negative terms, their interpersonal relations and the creation of their own identity? Have the social networks changed the concept of privacy? In what sense? Where is the boundary between the real and the virtual world? How can we detect or prevent addiction? Is it possible to make good use of the social networks? Social networks can reinforce a series of positive values such as cooperation and teamwork and favour the development of collective intelligence.

CCCB Lab

Learning on the Net (1) Uses and dilemmas.

Jordi Bernabeu

Illustration from String Figures and How to Make Them, by Caroline Furness Jayne (1906). Source: Wikipedia Everything that we think of as the Internet 2.0 –social media, basically– has brought about a revolution in our practices of interaction, communication, research and production ...