Читать книгу Political Science and Digitalization - Global Perspectives - Группа авторов - Страница 45

1 Research associate to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové.The author is grateful to Dominique Demelenne, Guzmán Ibarra, Mabel Villalba, Camilo Filártiga and Jorge Saldívar for their availability to be interviewed for this paper, and to Karen Acosta for proofreading the final draft.

2 According to the Survey on Internet Access and Use in Paraguay carried out by the National Bureau of Information and Communication Technologies (SENATICs), 59.8 % of respondents regularly use desktops or notebooks, 70.5 % of which do it mostly at home, 26.7 % at work and only 15.0 % at the university. In turn, 58.8 % indicate using these tools to seek information and 43.4 % to work. On the other hand, 96.6 % of the respondents use mobile devices, this being the main tool to connect online for 98.5 % of the respondents. When comparing responses by age group, the use of these resources is higher among younger respondents, which reflects its growing potential as a vehicle for teaching and scientific research.

3 While working on this essay the author faced many of the same challenges present in research in the country, such as lack of data or general acknowledgement of the research problem as such, in hand with lack of recognition of political science as an autonomous discipline.

4 There are further institutions of higher learning in the country that at some point have offered political science either at undergraduate or postgraduate levels, but there are no records of their regular existence in time.

5 While in the Catholic University there are specific subjects that make up the political science, sociology or history curricula, professors of those subjects do not necessarily have a specialized background in those areas. Also, in practice, students of either program choose to study them indistinctly as a means to complete the number of academic credits required by the university.

6 Available at http://www.aneaes.gov.py/aneaes/index.php/ct-menu-item-12/carreras-acreditadas

7 However, the website of the journal edited by the American University was not operational at the time of writing this essay.