Digital leisure
cell phone use in the free time of young Salvadoran university students.
Keywords:
Cell phone-Influence-Investigations, Use of time-Statistics, Technology-Socioeconomic aspects-Students, Youth-El Salvador-Research, LeisureAbstract
Understand how young adults invest their time while
being on their cellphone is one of the of the topics with greatest interest for both companies that want to target them, and for their parents and educators. Different studies have shown how this device is an almost omnipresent element in this population section, most of all in urban areas; however, in the case of El Salvador, little has been investigated about the practices that they realize through the device, specially on their free time. In this aspect, this work has the purpose of describing what kind of usage Salvadoran young adults from two different private universities have with this device in a specific time period, that will be called digital leisure. For this, it was resorted to online quantitative methods and
in-person focal groups. The results point that they use
it predominantly to check social media and to chat, two activities slightly more practiced than other recreational activities such as the consumption of music, audiovisual reproductions and playing videogames on specific platforms.
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