Lights and Shadows in the e-Communication of Galician Pre-Teens

This article aims to analyze and understand the ICT-based communication of Galician pre-teens; their knowledge and attitudes in the area of communication and collaboration in the framework of digital competence (DC), especially in relation to interaction, netiquette and digital identity. For this, a mixed methodology is used – a multiple case study and a DC evaluation – taking the DigComp model as reference. The results show that there are competence gaps, difficulty in terms of transferring learnings between contexts, gender-based differences in habits and capacities and an important role played by families in the whole process.