Guadalajara

Este estudio analiza la incidencia de los gastos de campaña en los resultados de las elecciones intermedias de 1997. La relación de los gastos de campaña con la votación emitida es estadísticamente significativa tanto para los partidos en su conjunto -lo que explica de alguna forma el abstencionismo- como para cada una de las fuerzas políticas por separado, mostrando de forma preliminar la eficiencia en el uso de estos gastos. Sin embargo, en ambos casos los coeficientes muestran una débil relación causal.

Monterrey

Online Social Networks (OSN) are the new tools that students are using to interact, communicate and collaborate for school work. The impact on school activities, as well as the communication mechanisms among students, have just started to be studied. This research focuses on this issue, trying to answer the question: How do college students use OSN to improve communication and exchange knowledge? For this purpose we used the application of two online surveys applied to students of business administration (BBA - Bachelor in Business Administration) and informatics management (BIM – Bachelor in Informatics Management) students in 2010 and 2012 in Mexico. Our findings reveal that business administration students are the ones that use these kinds of platforms more frequently for sharing information and communicating with their peers. The comparison of these two surveys shows how the behavior and activities among students have changed.