Los estudiantes universitarios ante las redes socialescuestiones de uso y agrupación en estructuras elitistas o pluralistas

Abstract

The development of the social networks facilitate the communication of different users in a globalized world, which transmit and share a wide variety of opinions. This work is within this complex phenomenon, specifically on the use that part of the digital natives (Fumero y Hervás, 2008:65) do with Facebook, MySpace, Tuenti, Hi5, Ringo, Bebo and a large number of social networks. Deeper into the subject of study, we try to determine the structure of the community in case of virtual communities created from these applications, recovering the key structure of communities published in the 50s and 60s, among others, by Hunter and Dahl , which split into two structures cigars: elitist and pluralist. Therefore, determine the existence of leaders within these virtual structures and examine the nature and of these relationships. This article presents the results of an empirical study conducted among students at the Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes de Valladolid and the University Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid, where some of the approaches discussed above.