“‘Mendigo de like’, ‘revolucionário’, ‘vasp’, ‘o celular é meio que o mundo’...”: vivências em cibercultura por adolescentes

Abstract

The present research, based on theoretical studies of cyberculture and the historical-cultural approach, starts from the question: How do adolescents constitute their experiences in digital technologies? It seeks to understand how these subjects potentiate their development in the appropriation of cultural instruments and signs, in the midst of the technological devices of cyberculture. The study articulates with authors that approach the socio-technical networks in the present time and the insertion of the new generations in the context of the digital culture. In the theoretical-methodological development of the research, a pilot research study was carried out with four adolescents, in which lived experience maps were developed, based on the concept of lived experience (perejivanie), by L. S. Vigotski. Through semi-structured interviews, following a dialogic perspective, the participants talk about their experiences in the digital culture, involving their everyday spaces-times. In addition to the concept of lived experience, the theoretical scope of study is articulated with Bakhtinian concepts of responsiveness, alterity and chronotopy. In the study, in a first approximation with the field of research, a survey was elaborated with the intention of knowing the practices and opinions of the 8th and 9th grade elementary school students in the Juiz de Fora municipal network in the context of digital technologies. In the analysis of the survey of 930 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 of 32 educational establishments, data are presented on their forms of incursions into emerging cyberculture, as well as notes taking into account relationships established in the technological environment of the present, involving their interests and attitudes. In another stage of the research, lived experience maps were developed with 12 adolescents from four schools who had joined the online questionnaire, using the previous pilot study as a reference. In the investigative development, subjects are presented in their singularities, taking into account their lived experience maps and the narratives produced in this course. In the research notes, starting from the listening perspective of the participating subjects, particularities are highlighted constitutive of their experiences in cyberculture taking into account their chronotopes expressed in cartographic records.