Socially Patterned Strategic Complementarity between Offline Leisure Activities and Internet Practices among Young People

While research exists regarding the internet's influence on traditional forms of youth leisure, research based on a comprehensive set of leisure indicators is scattered. We explore how a set of young peoples' in-person leisure activities are complemented by their internet practices, using...

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Autores: López Sintas, Jordi|||0000-0001-5441-4039, López Belbeze, Ma. Pilar|||0000-0002-4302-3005, Lamberti, Giuseppe|||0000-0002-8666-796X
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:322111
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/322111
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/01490400.2020.1782289
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Canonical correlation analysis
Internet
Leisure
Strategic complementarity
Young people
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Resumo:While research exists regarding the internet's influence on traditional forms of youth leisure, research based on a comprehensive set of leisure indicators is scattered. We explore how a set of young peoples' in-person leisure activities are complemented by their internet practices, using a canonical correlation framework to estimate the relationship between leisure activities and internet practices. We also measure how internet practices vary depending on the social properties of young people. We find that a strategic complementarity exists between certain offline leisure activities and specific online internet practices, in particular, that in-person social leisure is complemented by social interaction over the internet, that in-person cultural leisure is complemented by online information-seeking and asynchronous communication practices, and that in-home gaming is complemented by software and associated downloads. This strategic complementarity, furthermore, is also socially patterned, primarily by gender.