El capital tecnológico de los ingresantes a la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos (UNER)

Abstract

This study enquires into the technological capital owned by students admitted to the Faculty of Economic Sciences of UNER (National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina) for the academic year 2020. The study intends to research and describe the incoming students’ perception and usage of their digital technology devices, understanding that technological capital has become a new kind of capital which permeates societies in a cyberculture world. 

Therefore, digital devices become significantly important in the university educational field, since they reaveal the kind of capital and relations that incoming students count on to work within the academic world, as information about the previous knowledge and communication skills they have when they start university life. 

As for the methodology used, this is a quantitative investigation, and the research data was collected through a self managed survey which was applied during the university orientation programme held in february 2020. 

Among the main findings of this study we can mention that movile or celular pone is the device used by most of the students. However, how they use them and the tecnological skills they have will depend on the age of students at the moment of entering university, their relations and of the level of undergraduate degree they are pursuing. Hence, we understand that this research is a relevant contribution to the  current virtualization of university life.