Práticas digitais, lazer e adolescência: uma etnografia

Abstract

The present text presents results of a research whose objective is to understand uses and meanings that emerge from practices mediated by digital media in the daily life of adolescents of an elementary school. The research methodology, from the perspective of ethnography, involved the following procedures: a) participant observation of adolescents' digital practices in school; b) digital practices workshop in the school. The main questions that emerged from the field research concern: digital natives; digital practices and gender; digital practices and sociability. It concludes by criticizing the notion of digital natives and by understanding digital practices as important leisure activities for adolescents, which blur the boundaries between leisure, obligation and study and which are more a means of sociability and sharing of life experiences than of social isolation.