jorge, ana ecrea 2010
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Leisure is hard
Ana Jorge (CIMJ/UNL)
ECREA Conference, Hamburg, 13-15 October 2010
Escolhas
Entertainment and digital inclusion
Escolhas
Portuguese context
Research context and methodology
Contact Entertainment Information
I always have a computer that’s meant to work, I have another computer that’s meant to play. When I know that I have to work, I work. When I have nothing else to do, I play. (Stephan, 16, frequent user of the internet – Family 8)
Integrated?
[Would you like to have internet athome? What for?] –Yeah I would. I’dcreate a website, go to Messenger andtalk with all my colleagues… or I’ddownload movies for me to watch.» (Cátia, 17, frequent user – Family 38 –goes to city library for DVDs andinternet)
Fernanda, 15, frequent user, pursues herinterest in crime fiction in books, TV series and movies, but not on the internetMother: «If I want to have my fun, if I want to listen to music I put on a CD, if I want to read a book I have books here, my fun is not internet.» (Patrícia, 45, frequent user – Family 41)
«Me, the computer… I use it not for a cultural use, it’s more like entertainm… no… I cannot appreciate that aspect» (Mónica, 15, occasional user – Family 16)
Integrated?
«[What do you use internet for?] -Hmmm... [silence; laughs] Skate movies, I don’t know, so much stuff, I don’t know, can’t remember now… (Luís, 15, frequent user – Family 1)
Integrated?
«For me, to really see the movies you have to see them in the theater, right?, or otherwise it won’t be as funny. But since I can’t go to the theater all the time, I watch movies on the TV or through the computer. I go to the internet, download it and watch it.» (José, 16, frequent user –Family 26)
Young
“ambassadors”?
«I watch [movies] in the living room, sometimes with Pedro. But now he has here[in the PC], he puts movies here and tell us to lay there [on the bed]. (…) He plugs it, puts themusic on and we have fun» (Maria, 30, non-user - Family 9)
«The Da Vinci Code I wanted to watch so badly, just now… it was just last week that my sontold me… “mum, everything’s ready, lay onthe couch to watch it”. Then I watched it. It’sreally for not having the time, cause I love (…) the movies.» (Eurisa, 46, occasional user –Family 45)
«I ask her “Mónica, how do you do it?”, “mum, it’s done”, “Mónica, this way I won’t learn, youwon’t explain me how you did it”, “haven’t youlearn yet?” (Maria, 41, occasional user – Family16)
«When I had a MP3 player I would ask my sonto download [music] cause I didn’t know how. I could know and learn, but I’m lazy» (Adriana, 47, frequent user – Family 40)
Young “ambassadors”?
«- [I listen] mainly to African music. (…) A good kizomba, funanás and stuff, I love it. (…) I listen on the MP3 player sometimes. Every now and then, when a good music comes out, my son tells me: ‘mum, listen’, he puts it on my ear. (Eurisa, 46, occasional user of the internet - Family 45)
Conclusions
