Consumo y uso de medios de comunicación de jóvenes de Bachillerato de la Unidad Educativa Experimental “Manuela Cañizares” en tiempos de convergencia período abril-julio de 2016

Abstract

The technology has advanced by leaps and bounds and the most benefited have been the young. For this reason, this research on the consumption and use of communication media for young people of high school in times of convergence, allows us to know the use that this group gives to these technological tools, especially in the field of communication. One of the objectives of the research is to understand how the habits of young people have changed with the advent of smartphones. They now prefer to be on cell phones with their friends, while listening to music or playing online. This has produced a decrease of the physical exercise leaving sedentarismo in the population. Through a survey of high school students of the Experimental Educational Unit "Manuela Cañizares" of Quito, it was determined that the media (written press and television) have been replaced by those found on the web. Today teenagers can access from the web all information (digital books, movies, videos, social networks). These new technologies are an essential part of the academic and personal lives of young people.