Digital Competences and Information Consumption in University Students of Bogota in Colombia

Fatima Martinez Gutierrez

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Abstract

This paper analyses the new informative consumptions and uses of social media among university students in Colombia. From the analysis of various surveys carried out in 2018 and in 2019, Colombian university students will be able to study how the processes of news reading and the uses of social media have evolved. Since the arrival in our lives of social networks sites and the use if numerous hours of the cell phone with an internet connection, reading habits and news consumption hace changed considerably; to the press, to the radio and to the television, the mobility of the news is added through the newsfeed of Facebook and Twitter. With this research, it is desired to observe the evolution in the uses and informative consumptions from the use of social networks sites by means of the quantitative survey technique and a selected sample of university students in the city of Bogota.
Translated title of the contributionCompetencias digitales y consumos informativos en estudiantes universitarios de Bogotá en Colombia
Original languageEnglish
JournalMass Communication & Journalism
Volume11
Issue number3
StatePublished - Apr 5 2021

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