The document discusses leisure activities and digital inclusion. It provides quotes from interviews with Portuguese families on their use of the internet for entertainment purposes. Some key points: 1) Younger users distinguish between computers for work and play, dedicating devices to each purpose. 2) Teenagers use the internet for entertainment like watching movies and videos, playing games, and communicating with friends. 3) Older family members rely on younger "ambassadors" to show them how to access digital entertainment like downloading movies and music since they lack digital skills. 4) While the internet provides access to entertainment, some still prefer traditional media or going out to movie theaters for full experience.

1. Leisure is hard
Ana Jorge (CIMJ/UNL)
ECREA Conference, Hamburg, 13-15 October 2010

2. Escolhas

3. Entertainment and digital inclusion
Escolhas

4. Portuguese context

5. Research context and methodology

6. 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)

7. [Would you like to have internet at
home? What for?] –Yeah I would. I’d
Integrated? create a website, go to Messenger and
talk with all my colleagues… or I’d
download movies for me to watch.»
(Cátia, 17, frequent user – Family 38 –
goes to city library for DVDs and
internet)
Fernanda, 15, frequent user, pursues her
interest in crime fiction in books, TV series
and movies, but not on the internet
Mother: «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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. «I watch [movies] in the living room,
Young sometimes with Pedro. But now he has here
[in the PC], he puts movies here and tell us to
“ambassadors”? lay there [on the bed]. (…) He plugs it, puts the
music 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 son
told me… “mum, everything’s ready, lay on
the couch to watch it”. Then I watched it. It’s
really 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, you
won’t explain me how you did it”, “haven’t you
learn yet?” (Maria, 41, occasional user – Family
16)
«When I had a MP3 player I would ask my son
to download [music] cause I didn’t know how. I
could know and learn, but I’m lazy» (Adriana,
47, frequent user – Family 40)

11. 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)

12. Conclusions

13. Thank you
Ana Jorge anaratojorge@gmail.com
http://digital_inclusion.up.pt