Abstract
This paper aims to contribute towards the comprehension of the adhesion of adolescent to digital technologies and their usage in the search for or consolidation of relationships with their peers. The objective was to analyze the role of blogs in the maintenance and establishment of relationships among adolescents from the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Three boys’ blogs and three girls’ blogs were selected, and five pages of each blog were selected, in a total of 30 pages. Categories were elaborated from reading the posts left at the 30 pages and subsequently used to classify and quantify the posts. Messages and comments left at the blogs had a positive affective connotation, in search for approximation and contact with the blog owner. Messages were also noted for gender differences. It was concluded that some determined patterns of offline interaction guided the establishment of online relationships.
Highlights
This paper aims to contribute towards the comprehension of the adhesion of adolescent to digital technologies and their usage in the search for or consolidation of relationships with their peers
O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar o papel dos Blogs na manutenção e estabelecimento de relacionamentos entre adolescentes residentes na Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brasil
Contemporary society, according to Salles (2005), is marked by, among other factors, the predominance of information technology, virtual reality, and interaction mediated by electronic medium, forcing specific ways of subjectiveness [construction of a specific repertoire which, according to Weber (2005), people acquire during the developmental process, and involves both environmental and biological aspects] to be determined by the particularities of this contemporary society
Summary
This paper aims to contribute towards the comprehension of the adhesion of adolescent to digital technologies and their usage in the search for or consolidation of relationships with their peers. The objective was to analyze the role of blogs in the maintenance and establishment of relationships among adolescents from the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar o papel dos Blogs na manutenção e estabelecimento de relacionamentos entre adolescentes residentes na Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brasil. The culture of mobility, flexibility, ephemeralness, and provisionality, characteristic of societies marked by information technology and interaction mediated by electronic media, imputes such characteristics to adolescents. All along the teenager is compelled to be an instantaneous subject, responsive to the demands of the surroundings without delaying or postponing the realization of his/her needs In this way, the adolescent is subjected to a new form of subjectiveness which is characteristic of contemporaneity: the connection to the information and virtual reality production networks. That what today is called the cyberspace is "for Internet Revolution as the metropolis was for Industrial Revolution” (Nicolaci-da-Costa, 2002a, p. 197)
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