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HUERTA WONG, Juan Enrique  e  GARCIA, Eduardo. La formación de los ciudadanos: el papel de la televisión y la comunicación humana en la socialización política. Comun. soc [online]. 2008, n.10, pp.163-189. ISSN 0188-252X.

This paper addresses questions regarding how future citizenship has been built. In order to do that, this paper analyzes the role of television and interpersonal communication networks to construct political sophistication, democracy values and disposition to participation. A path analysis and a multiple analysis of variance were performed to address those questions. Results point out that the centrality of interpersonal communication networks become important to understand how citizenship has been built. Evidence permits to be optimist regarding the future of Mexican citizenship, but a final comment points out that those mexicansface sociopolitical constraints limiting that optimism.

Palavras-chave : political socialization; path analysis; interpersonal communication; television and education; multivariate analysis and communication studies.

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