This document compares internet use in Argentina and Canada by examining internet user rates, top websites, Google Trends data, and summaries from an Open Society report on each country's digital media landscape. In Argentina, internet use is growing rapidly as broadband connections double in recent years. Social networks and digital platforms are changing information sharing, with more political blogs feeding into mainstream media. However, a digital divide remains based on economic access and uneven infrastructure. Polarized social and political forces may limit the benefits from digitization. In Canada, digitization has had large impacts due to the country's vast, urbanized but sparsely populated areas. Canadians are world leaders in digital media adoption, but the federal government lacks a comprehensive digital

1. Argentina & Canada: Comparing Internet Use
Internet Users per 100 people
Alexa - Top Site Rankings
Argentina
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/A
R
Canada
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/C
A
Facebook.com Google.ca
Google.com.ar Google.com
Youtube.com Facebook.com

2. Google.com Youtube.com
Mercadolibre.com.ar Yahoo.com
Live.com Amazon.ca
Yahoo.com Wikipedia.org
Twitter.com Live.com
Clarin.com Twitter.com
Wikipedia.org Amazon.com
Google Trends
Argentina Canada
Montreal, KPMG Tower, KPMG
Saskatchewan Roughriders, Canadian
Football League
Samian, Karine Vanasse
Saskatoon, Willowgrow, Death
Portpartum depression, Hayden Panettiere
Jamaica, Man Booker Prize, Book
Toronto Maple Leads, ESPN
Terence Young, Cannabis, Oakville, Liberal
Party of Canada
Vaccine, Malaria, Canada
Lil’ Kim, BET, BET Hip Hop Awards
Open Society - Mapping Digital Media:
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the
transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how

3. these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide:
news about political, economic, and social affairs.
Argentina
In Argentina, there have been few changes in media and news consumption that can be linked to
digital migration. Television continues to be the medium of reference.
Digitization and the consequent rise in the use of social networks and digital platforms on the part of
Argentinean society are changing the system of social production and the circulation of information
and entertainment in a country where the expansion of broadband connections has doubled over the
past five years. There is a dramatically increasing number of blogs that contribute to the political
debate and offer news and opinions from various fields of expertise and that feed back into the
workings of mainstream media.
The digital divide remains a central issue, not only in terms of social groups without the economic
means and the skills to use the net, but also in terms of the uneven quality of the access provided in
different parts of the country.
In any case, the transformative potential of digitization will no doubt be affected by the polarization of
the social and political forces of Argentina that prevents rival groups from acknowledging shared
goals and agreeing on a course of action to obtain all the possible benefits of this transformation.
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-argentina
Canada
Canadians are among the most engaged and active users of digital media in the world, and
digitization has had particular consequences for such a vast, largely urbanized and sparsely
populated country. Although progress in some aspects has been exemplary, geographic
complexities and a lack of leadership by the federal government have produced challenges and
delays in others. In particular, while Canadians lead the world in areas relating to digital media take -
up, the federal government has yet to finalize an official, comprehensive digital strategy similar to the
EU’s Digital Agenda for Europe or the National Broadband Plan in the United States.
It is essential that the federal government tables a cohesive and comprehensive Digital Economy
Strategy in consultation with all stakeholders, including the public. Such a unified, forward-thinking
approach is needed if Canada is to forge a comprehensive and progressive agenda for the
continued development of digital media infrastructure, services, and access.

4. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-canada
Fragmentation of political discourse in Twitter - Argentina
Figure 1.
circles describe users
ovals describe user communities
colored lines describe retuits (connections between users).
To the left of the graph close to the government users, including Anibal Fernandez,
Daniel Scioli and Agustín Rossi, who used their Twitter accounts to account for the
progress made by the Government regarding the flood are.
In the center and right, users are opponents, including "managed" accounts Jorge
Lanata and Elisa Carrió, as well as the audited accounts of Mauricio Macri and Joaquin
Morales Sola. - See more at: http://www.revistaanfibia.com/ensayo/la-grieta-es-un-
algoritmo/#sthash.q9W3hoHr.dpuf