O consumo de internet no processo de construção social da identidade de adolescentes integrantes de uma ONG em Jaboatão dos Guararapes

Abstract

The digital era, through the internet, had its fruit in the expansion and development of the capitalist system, which provided the possibility of new forms of communication in the globalized technological context. Thus, virtual entertainment gains more and more space for use in the daily lives of families. In this way, with the advancement of information and communication technology, we have the facility to make purchases through the internet, make payments to accounts, talk to friends who are distant, know news from Brazil and the world, all this in real time, which seems to be a facilitator for the interaction of adolescents, since much dominates these tools. Adolescence consists of a phase of changes, both physiological, psychic and social, and considering that in the midst of these transformations, there is the search for identity, which comes to be present in the questions of adolescents and that will lead to countless experiences that will be intensely experienced throughout adolescence. However, how have teens dealt with the internet? Thus, this work is the result of the experience of compulsory supervised internship at an NGO in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, and aimed to analyze the influence of Internet consumption on the process of social construction of adolescents' identity. The methodological procedures used were bibliographic review, participant observation and semi-structured questionnaire application. The research is exploratory, descriptive and qualitative. And the results point out that the internet is configured as a more comprehensive medium for interaction and socialization of adolescents, being essential the consumption of technology / internet since they associate it with the synonym of pleasure and leisure, and hence it is necessary to discuss more on the relation of consumption of technologies and the behavior of the adolescents before the society of consumption.