MAKER CULTURE ON YOUTUBE: A COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL PRACTICE

Abstract

The maker movement is already a reality inside and outside of school and also on YouTube, the largest video platform on the internet. In Brazil, the maker movement has already begun to appear and change education, encouraging students to get more hands-on, helping them to solve problems creatively in the classroom and taking this knowledge into their everyday lives. Through bibliographic and netnographic research, the article aims to describe the development of this culture and how its manifestation in this social media presents a collaborative social practice, as well as a productive way of learning, pointing out as a sample of this phenomenon the interactions made possible in a video from the Manual do Mundo channel.