Technology and Subjectivity: Social Representations of Digital Technologies shared in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

The research aims to identify social representations of digital technologies of information and communication, shared by pedagogy graduates, permeated by the context of the pandemic in their initial formation. For its cognitive and subjective character, the theoretical field that supports this study is the Social Representation Theory. The methodology of this research has a qualitative character, using the Technique of Free Association of Hierarchical Words (ABRIC, 2005), a strategy which conditions the respondents to a hierarchy of the terms based on their importance in the representation of this group. The results showed the internet, computer, cellphone and innovation as possible components of the core of the social representation shared by the group of students; while the difficulty, learning, distance learning, adaptation, education, resource, access, conection, tools, google meet, google classroom, challenge and inequality figure in the periphery field of this representation. In addition, the production of these social representations would be associated with moments of tension, little connection with technologies, distance and social inequality.