Virtual socialization, multiculturalism and risks among Latin American adolescents in Spain

Abstract

The research project “The social relations through the Internet among young migrants, from the perspective of multiculturalism” (CSO2011- 24376), deals with the study of the face and virtual relationships as spaces of socialization and risk for immigrant and native adolescents in Spain. This article is focused on the Latin American group, in relation to their identity and cultural particularities. The methodological design is experimental, combining focus group with self-administered questionnaires and projective iconographic techniques. The main findings points out a cosmopolitan Pan-Latin American feeling in intercultural face-to-face relations of young Latin Americans, contrasting with the global trend to cultural uniformity and control risk in the management of the virtual identity, in which no differences were found in regard to the cultural origin of the adolescent.