El rol de facebook en la desaparición de niños, jóvenes y adultos en Quito.

Abstract

The social communication is the transverse axis of human interaction, it relates to the diverse areas of knowledge. Because of communication processes, the development of society has been possible through the exchange of ideas, positions and thus consolidate development processes for the community. Social Media has been consolidated as factors of social influence its scope not only is measured by the number of people who have an account (2,300 million active users) Its impact is also based on the role that individuals have given them. The purpose of this research is the use of social media as a tool for searching missing persons and the impact they have had on media cases within Ecuador, for which has been established as a reference the disappearances of Karina del Pozo and David Romo and analyze the role that platforms like Facebook have played before these events. This research has implemented as part of its methodology the analysis of publications, in addition to interviews and testimonies to contrast the information and therefore verify the degree of incidence of social networks in the disappearances and determine the possibility to contemplate these platforms such as digital tools for the search for a missing person.