The Messenger Generation: Relevance of instant messaging among chilean adolescents

Abstract

In the middle of changes has generated by Age of Information called, acquired importance the phenomenon of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). This is related to the increasing access that the Chilean society towards the internet, that positions it like leader in Latin America in the subject. By the proximity that the young people have with new technologies, this age group has been has itself appropriate with greater intensity of this new communicative tool. The instant messaging has become an important tool by he socialization processes of the young people, having occupied the place that in last decades use the telephone. Compared to other technologies the mail has become one of the few common elements that it crosses the social segments and the varied urban tribes in who the Chilean young people live their processes on construction of the identity.