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Usage of Social Media by Children and Teenagers: Results of EU KIDS Online II

Usage of Social Media by Children and Teenagers: Results of EU KIDS Online II
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Author(s): Anca Velicu (Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, Romania)and Valentina Marinescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 35
Source title: Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)and Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2970-7.ch008

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Abstract

This chapter presents the results of EU Kids Online II project about the children’s and adolescent’s uses of the social network sites. The results showed both the main differences and similarities regarding this issue both at the European and at the country (i.e. Romania) level. Although at the European level one can notice the emergence of different groups of users, in Romania, the use of the Internet is only at the beginning and has no clear pattern. The individual characteristics in the self-efficacy variant positively vary with the using of SNS and, at the same time, none of the negative individual characteristics predicts the possessing of a profile on a social network. The strongest connection exists between having competences regarding the use of the Internet and owning a profile on a social network. Moreover, the results agree with previous researches that highlight a complex influence of the parental mediation on the social behaviors.

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