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08.20.2015
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Social networks appear as the main activity for Italian teenagers, Brazilian, Portuguese and Belgian
The conditions of access and use of the Internet by children and adolescents in Brazil and seven European countries are presented in the report "Children and Internet use: A comparative analysis of Brazil and seven European countries" (Children and the Internet: a comparative analysis between Brazil and seven European countries). The trend towards increasing use of private Internet by young people between 9 and 16 years old from Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the United Kingdom is one of the results presented.
The report, produced from comparable surveys among participating countries conducted between 2013 and 2014 shows a significant presence of Brazilians in social networks compared to other countries.
Brazilian data is the research TIC Kids Online Brazil in 2013, the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil (CGI.br) held by the Regional Centre of Studies for the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), the Information and Coordination Center BR Point (NIC.br). For the Brazilian research, 2,261 children and adolescents 9-17 years of Internet users were interviewed, as well as interviews with their parents or guardians. European data was produced by Net Children Go Mobile project.
Brazilians have less access to the network in the school environment, but, on the other hand, are ahead of other countries in access to mobile devices and the presence of children aged 9-10 years in the social networks. The study shows that one in three Brazilian Internet users kids access the network by mobile devices (33%), a level higher than countries such as Romania (15%), Ireland (13%), Portugal (13%) and Belgium (11 %). Internet access in their own room or in another private home environment is common practice for children and adolescents in almost all countries surveyed: more than half (56%) of Brazilian Internet users, 85% in Denmark, 70% in the United Kingdom, 69% in Italy and Romania, 60% in Ireland and Portugal. The exception is Belgium (48%).
Education and online activities
At school, Internet access is limited to only a third of Brazilian children Internet users (36%). This proportion is lower than that in most European countries involved in the study: United Kingdom (88%), Denmark (80%), Romania (53%), Portugal (49%), Ireland (47%) and Belgium (39% ), with the exception of Italy (26%). "Instead of restricting access to the Internet, Brazilian schools should value it and invest in this technology, allowing children to fully exploit the potential of the Internet and are trained for their safe use", considers Alexander Barbosa, Cetic manager. br.
Watch online videos or clips and use social networks are the activities most frequently mentioned by children and adolescents aged between 11 and 16 years in all countries of the study. The Danes (70%), Romanians (58%), Irish (49%) and British (49%) prefer to watch the videos online, while social networks appear as the main activity for Italian teenagers (59%), Brazil (52%), Portuguese (50%) and Belgian (48%).
Social networks
Regarding the presence on social networks, 78% of Brazilian children and teenagers Internet users have their own profile, the same level in Romania (78%) and Denmark (81%). In Brazil, children 9 and 10 years are the most present (52%) in these channels among the countries analyzed: Romania (50%), Denmark (41%), Portugal (26%), Belgium (22%), United Kingdom (19%), Italy (15%) and Ireland (14%).
Also according to the study, much of the young Brazilians values have large number of online contacts and shows little concern to maintain public profiles on these networks. In Brazil, more than half of children (54%) claims to have more than 100 contacts in your main profile, similar phenomenon with Romania (64%). In addition, 42% of Brazilians have fully public profile, and the proportion of only 15% in Italy.
Source: Administrators
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