“QUANDO MENOS PERCEBEMOS ESTAMOS ALI CONECTADOS”: ESTUDO SOBRE AS PRÁTICAS COTIDIANAS DO USO DO SMARTPHONE DE JOVENS UNIVERSITÁRIOS

https://doi.org/10.29327/211653.6.5-6

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the perspectives of young university students in the city of Novo Hamburgo-RS, regarding the use of smartphones to streamline daily practices. The assertion that technologies are increasingly linked to the process of social inclusion reveals the guiding thread for reflection on the processes of subjectivation and connectivity that cross the current scenario of youth cultural practices. In this article we used the descriptive and qualitative research, with an ethnographic approach and interviews with university students in the city of Novo Hamburgo-RS in 2017. The theoretical framework has the authors Feixa Pampols, Santos, Pais, Castells, Canclini, Reguillo Cruz, among others. The results point out that no matter where, when and the reasons for consumption, the fact is that technological devices are increasingly immersed in the daily lives of young people. Thus, knowing the process of digital inclusion of youth is essential so that suggestions can be made for social promotion (education, work, culture, etc.), greater freedom and equal opportunities. This article brings reflections that integrate the research in progress of PhD in Cultural Diversity and Social Inclusion by the University Feevale that has central objective to problematize the relation of the consumption with the social inclusion in the Brazilian contemporaneous youth.