Variables associated with the use, socialization and risk of young people facing portable devices with Internet connectivity. The case of Mexican public secondary education

Abstract

The article presents the findings of the diagnostic between 2012 and 2014 about uses, attitudes, habits, skills and behaviors that present the young students of public secondary schools in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora (Mexico) with respect to technologies digital and portable device with Inter-net access. The study also discusses the results regarding the risks, their reaction to them and the habits or adopt security measures that youth or their parents and teachers in the use of these technologies. It is a research with externally funded. Use the critical multiplism as interdisciplinary theoretical perspective and methodological strategies that become an integrated mixed model for the analysis of cross-sectional data temporarily. Methodology involves two stages and a combina-tion of quantitative and qualitative techniques. The quantitative analysis examined the application of 2907 questionnaires. The qualitative phase evaluated the implementation of seven focus groups.