About Jose Pineiro Castro and Her Doctoral Thesis, Children's Internet Uses: Perspectives and Prospects

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About Jose Pineiro Castro and Her Doctoral
Thesis, Children's Internet Uses Perspectives
and Prospects
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• Jose Pineiro Castros Doctoral Thesis
• Jose Pineiro Castro is a communication researcher
  whose Doctoral Thesis, Children's Internet Uses
  Perspectives and Prospects grabbed huge
  attention.
• For her thesis, she analyzed hundreds of
  navigations of school children from Pontevedra
  and came up with many shocking revelations.

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• Communication specialists that evaluated
  Pineiros Doctoral Thesis
• The doctoral thesis presented by Jose Pineiro
  Castro was evaluated on the A Xunqueira campus by
  renowned communication specialists such as
• Julio Cabero Almenara from the University of
  Seville
• Francisca Fariña from the University of Vigo
• Manuel Pinto from the Universidade do Minho

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• Revelations about Childrens Internet Uses - by
  Jose Pineiro Castro
• During her research, Jose Pineiro Castro found
  that children make a lot of internet use, but the
  more shocking part was that they make many uses
  of internet which we dont know.
• According to the samples that she took of
  childrens internet uses, she discovered that
  their searches arent only directed towards
  educational content. There are many other
  information needs that they use internet for.

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• Conclusion of Her Study
• The main conclusion of Jose Pineiros research
  was that the tools she used for analyzing
  children's Internet uses are insufficient.
• Along with that, she also emphasized on the need
  to develop new research techniques that can adapt
  better to the digital environment.

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Thank You Jose Pineiro Castro