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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 : a community of practice in afterschool (Production)

Acquisition of social and cultural capitals.

3. Search : interacting with the World Wide Web. (Searching)

Information retrieval, synthesis, the internet as a fixed thing. Information quality.


4. SNSs and Web 2.0 platforms : FB and YouTube (Circulation and curating)

Entertainment, learning, and searching. Precarious networked publics.

5. Conclusions.