October 2024 featured articles

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DE MARCOS FERNÁNDEZ, C., BENÍTEZ EYZAGUIRRE, L., RUIZ CABRERA, S. y ACOSTA CALDERÓN, L., 2024. Hacia la generación muda: Tendencias en el uso de WhatsApp por centennials, millennials y generación X (leiho berri batean irekitzen da). Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, vol. 21, no. 2 (julio-diciembre), ISSN 1549-2230.

This article addresses how the centennial generation (the mute generation) converses via WhatsApp instant messaging. The analysis of twenty-three interviews with people from different generations (centennials, millennials, and generation X) about their conversational use of WhatsApp allows us to identify the conversation characteristics of the mute generation: presence, non-presence, emotions, and respect, as well as the differences in these values among the three generations. The results also show a distinctive feature in the conversation patterns of the centennial generation (18-25 year olds). These young people prefer technological mediation and use their mobile phones as a protective shield: they are uncomfortable with the simultaneous, face-to-face nature of conventional conversations.


DEL MORAL, C. y BURRIEL, C., 2024. Derechos sin conexión. Un análisis sobre derechos de la infancia y la adolescencia y su protección en el entorno digital (leiho berri batean irekitzen da). Save the Children.

As part of the #DerechosSinConexión (Online Safety) campaign, Save the Children is publishing this report that examines the rights of children and adolescents and their safety in digital environments to understand how they relate to digital environments and how to ensure that all their rights are also respected in this sphere, while at the same time protecting them from any type of violence. The document studies how, why, and what children and adolescents use the Internet and social media for: how many hours, the type of content, how they feel when they surf the web, and whether they are prepared to face the risks and challenges posed by digital environments. The research involved surveys of 3,315 adolescents aged 14 to 17 in Spain and interviews with five focus groups of children and adolescents aged 10 to 17. The aim was also to learn the opinions of various experts and professionals in the sector to approach this issue from the broadest possible perspective and to put forward recommendations that take all these perspectives into account.


FERNÁNDEZ-SUÁREZ, B., CAPOTE LAMA, A. y VÁZQUEZ SILVA, I., 2024. De las migraciones líquidas al arraigo. Proyectos de anclaje en destino en la reciente emigración española a Europa (leiho berri batean irekitzen da). Papers: revista de sociología, vol. 109, no. 4, ISSN 2013-9004, 0210-2862.

Spanish emigration to the rest of Europe following the economic crisis of 2008 has been described as a fluid and transitory migration, known as liquid migration. Indeed, the starting point for this mobility for many young Spaniards was marked by processes such as independence from the family, higher education, or joining the labour market. More than a decade has passed since some of these young people left and made the transition from youth to maturity. This article analyses the reasons that have triggered the essential transition from temporary to permanent migration, an issue that has received less attention in the academic literature. The reasons for permanent migration can be summarised in three categories: employment and economic security; family reasons (having a partner and children at the destination); and non-voluntary reasons that make it impossible to return to Spain. The methodology used is qualitative, analysing 38 in-depth interviews with Spanish emigrants living in the United Kingdom and France who intend to stay there permanently.