APROPRIAÇÕES DA INTERNET PELOS JOVENS EM LAN-HOUSE: ASPECTOS EDUCATIVOS DE SUAS FORMAS DE USO

Abstract

This study was conducted within the research line Theories and Processes of Education, Educational Program Graduate Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goias. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the digital culture of young people, identifying the educational aspects of their forms of appropriation of the Internet outside school. The starting point is the concerning about the preconceived idea that the uses which young people make of the Internet outside school are sufficient to prepare them for use demanded by the school. The study of the cultural issue, of school culture and digital culture took as a reference the contributions of Belloni (2008), Bourdieu (1998, 1999), Fourquin (1993), Peixoto (2008, 2009, 2010), among others. To investigate the relationships between technologies and the social, cultural and educational processes, we rely especially on the debate of Buckingham (2000), Castells (1999), Kenski (2007), Sacristán (2007), Sancho, Hernandez (2006) and Santaella (2004). The qualitative type of research consists in the observation of young people using the internet in lan-house situated in the eastern part of the city of Goiania. To accommodate the research objectives, we adopted the daily observation as a tool for data collection. The discussion and analysis of the results led us to identify four types of use that can be taken as evidence to characterize the forms of Internet use by young people in lanhouse: 1) use of diverse forms, 2) communication limited to the social group, 3) Virtual Communications in a complementary (not substitutive) to the presential communication process, 4) Setting up a player marked by the electronic media.