Las redes sociales y periodismo ciudadano en jóvenes de asentamientos humanos (AA. HH.) de Lima

Abstract

In the last ten years, traditional journalism underwent a significant change when the emergence of citizens in the information process. The new digital technologies and social networks enabled new forms of access and participation of young people as new social actors in the production of information, citizens who with the use of a mobile phone with integrated camera, witness a news event broadcast not only videos and photographs, but also stories from the scene of events for the consumption of the rest of society and often transmitted by the media. The study provides important information for the understanding of social networks and the relationship with citizen journalism based on field research applied to a sample of 80 young people of human settlement San Antonio de Ate, being these users and consumers of Internet and social networks.