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Imagine the thesis as a series of independent papers that complement each other and cohere as a single piece.

0. Introduction

An overarching thesis and an ongoing train of thought: Looking at participation as something that is fluid, and that it happens across different realms : family, afterschool, online SNSs, searching.

Practices and new media literacies : circulation, production, searching, curating.

Complexity of the digital divide. Digital inequalities. Looking at this inequalities across realms.

Hispanic/Latino youth in the USA, growing up with digital media. Yes but in the margins. Unprivileged youth.


0.1. Design and methods

0.2. The scene.

0.3. Theoretical framework and core themes

  • Participation
  • Latino/hispanic
  • Youth and digital medial
  • Media Practices and Literacies.


1. Hispanic/Latino families : media environments and teenage brokers. Youth as media savvy, the brokers of digital media, cultural and social capitals. Comparative case study of 4 families.

2. Digital video : afterschool, a community of practice, acquisition of social and cultural capitals. (Production)

3. Search : information retrieval, synthesis, the internet as a fixed thing. Information quality. (Searching)

4. SNSs and platforms : FB and YouTube: entertainment, learning, and searching. Precarious networked publics. (Circulation and curating)

5. Conclusions.