Resumen de Descubrimientos de un laboratorio ciudadano en tres universidades latinoamericanas: ciudadanía digital
Adriana Lorena Cantón Balcázar
As part of an international project from the competitive fund Novus la Tríada, a group of scholars from three Latin American universities created a Citizen Laboratory to determine their students’ global participation status. Through mixed research, first quantitative (survey) and then qualitative (interviews), we analysed and discovered citizenship status amongst the students who participated in the project through three sub-variables of global citizenship: socioemotional abilities, sense of community, and active citizenship. In the last sub-variable, we found one of the most valuable findings: the one destined for digital citizenship. It is highly relevant to study, as the barrier of digitalized participation can paralyse an entire generation of students. Even though this discovery can be based on different reasons, such as historical past, contexts and scenarios, the answers varied depending on the participants’ school. Students from Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) presented a higher level of involvement with digitality in comparison to their peers from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). This chapter summarises the most important discoveries regarding digital citizenship, following a descriptive approach and sharing possible reasons for these disparities.
