Juventude(s), mídia e escola: ser jovem e ser aluno face à midiatização das sociedades contemporâneas

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the construction of aspects of the mediatization process of contemporary culture, regarding singularly youth: their crossings and "effects" in the modes how two groups of high school students interact with school and conduct their "roles" of students. So, we picked up and ranked number field data, in 2012, in two schools: the Private Institute Carmen Pereira and the State School Francisco Amaral. Three classes of these schools in the second year of High School have been accompanied in daily: Avenida 2m1 and 2m2 of private school class and Class 2H of public school. The notion of mediatization, guiding the analysis, proved to be very fruitful for the analysis and comprehension of the research object approached. Methodologically, the research problem was accessed through two pathways. The first route is the Sociology of Action, which expression includes a number of additional sociological and cultural approaches, focused on individual as social actor. The second route was based on the Paulo Freires purpose of communicative education in conjunction with praxiological or relational paradigm of communication. We also used the methodology of qualitative research approach, with diverse methods of data collection, such as questionnaires, interviews, focus groups and observation of the social network Facebook. Analysis revealed that digital technologies that blend the daily life of young people surveyed are intertwined in extensive and intensive way in their interactions as young students, in the school and in social medias ambiences frequented by them. From this overlap, the references of identity, relationship and knowledge are affected and challenged arising from media coverage that fits there. From the perspective of the young students researched, it was highlighted that more than the provision of innovative and functional appliances the media has provided a space or environment that young people access to express themselves and exercise their sociability. It is evident also that the process of intersection between juvenile life and media devices is accelerated and influential, but not homogeneous.