Communities in developing country mountain areas, in part due to their remoteness, find themselves excluded from social, political and economic systems; and excluded from access to resources. This paper aims to study the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on remoteness and exclusion. It utilises two modelsthe resource movement framework, and the "information chain" -to analyse a telecentre in one district of mountainous Huancavelica, Peru's poorest region, set in the high Andes. It finds ICTs enabling new and positive resource flows for the two key user groups: teenaged school students and young farmers. These help to maintain social networks. They also support information searches that have improved agricultural practice where other information chain resources have been available. But non-use and ineffective use of the telecentre are found where information chain resources are lacking. ICTs have some impacts on intangible elements of remoteness. In this particular example, they also offer access to some previously-excluded resources. But they have not really addressed the systematic exclusions faced by mountain communities. And they so far appear to be a technology of inequality; favouring those residents who begin with better resource endowments. The paper concludes by offering some recommendations for mountain ICT project practice.

Este artículo analiza el proceso de creación y difusión de videos que desarrollan niños YouTubers peruanos para comprender el tipo de habilidades que se despliegan en dicho proceso a través del método de la etnografía digital. Los resultados evidencian ciertas habilidades tanto técnicas como sociales y críticas que hacen referencia a una experiencia diferente vivida dentro de la cultura colaborativa contemporánea. PaLabras cLave: alfabetización digital, alfabetización transmedia, videos, YouTube, YouTuber, Perú.This paper analyses the process of creation and diffusion of videos that young YouTubers develop, in order to understand the kind of abilities deployed through it. Using the digital ethnography method, the study evidences some technical, social and critical abilities, which point to a different experience, lived within the contemporary collaborative culture.

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The covid-19 pandemic has impacted the digital public sphere considerably, causing influencers to reflect on their work and social responsibilities. Users and virtual communities have articulated the need for information to be provided to them on informal political spaces characterized by the coexistence of leisurely and entertainment activities. This exploratory qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews of 13 Peruvian influencers with varying levels of influence and hailing from different regions. Such an exploration facilitates an understanding of the influencers’ coping strategies in this scenario as well as their perspectives as media citizens. We conclude that the relationship between influencers and their communities can assume high levels of civility and social commitment in a critical context; such a relationship is further enhanced by means of content that integrates information and entertainment.

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