Internet Universe #3. City
Internet Universe. Social networks: risks and potentials for children and teenagers
Lecture by Jordi Bernabeu
Why are the social networks so attractive to children and teenagers? What do they provide them with? How do they affect, in positive and negative terms, their interpersonal relations and the creation of their own identity? Have the social networks changed the concept of privacy? In what sense? Where is the boundary between the real and the virtual world? How can we detect or prevent addiction? Is it possible to make good use of the social networks? Social networks can reinforce a series of positive values such as cooperation and teamwork and favour the development of collective intelligence.
Internet Universe. The social networks as a tool for the construction of an aware and participative citizen
Workshop with Isidre Plaza and Senén Roy
Internet is a network of networks; it cannot be understood without its social dimension. Technology must help the pupils of this century to extract all the collective intelligence that can help them to develop in a global world. This workshop showed, in a practical way, how the social networks ...
Learning on the Net (2). Between preventive and educational action
Jordi Bernabeu
There is some cause for concern about the use of the Web 2.0 environment by teenagers and young people. Even though its potential and its advantages are beyond doubt, certain cases over the last few years have set alarm [...]
Learning on the Net (1) Uses and dilemmas.
Jordi Bernabeu
Illustration from String Figures and How to Make Them, by Caroline Furness Jayne (1906). Source: Wikipedia Everything that we think of as the Internet 2.0 –social media, basically– has brought about a revolution in our practices of interaction, communication, research and production ...