Tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TIC) e construção identitária: diálogos com adolescentes em uma escola

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Catiele dos
• Orientador(a): Roso, Adriane
• Banca de defesa: Quiroga, Fernando Lionel, Patias, Naiana Dapieve
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Centro de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia
• Departamento: Psicologia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Adolescência; Identidades; Tecnologias; Representações sociais; Estudos culturais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Adolescence; Identities; Technologies; Cultural studies; Social representations
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/23201

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been changing the ways of relating and being in the world. This Master dissertation aimed to reflect on the identity construction process in its interrelation with ICT, based on the adolescent’s knowledge, practices and experiences who study in a school located in a rural municipality of the central region of the state Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Specifically, we sought to understand how adolescence is conceived in the rural context and how ICT impacts these people’s daily lives, mainly in sexuality and in sexual, reproductive and mental health, as integral elements of the identity dimension. This study is linked to the umbrella project “Politics of Reproduction in the Cyberworld: “Investigations in (Contra)ceptive, (In)fertility and Social Representations of Masculinities/Femininities, approved by the ethics committee”. The umbrella project’s general objective is to reflect on how Reproduction Policies are intertwined with a network of social representations, particularly social representations of masculinities and femininities and to explore the impact that these interlaces have on gender relations, social identities, health and rights. In this research, we aimed to achieve part of this objective, when we propose to approach issues related to the adolescent’s identity configuration and their interrelationships with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as well as the ways in which they affect the sexuality exercise and sexual, reproductive and mental health of this social group. Considering that the identity construction has specificities, being the target of studies and discussion subject in many areas of knowledge, an approximation between Cultural Studies (CS) and Social Representations Theory (SRT) was listed, as guiding approaches directed to the identity process. In the analysis and discussion stage the methodological design, this is a qualitative research and used semi-structured interviews as a strategy for approaching and field study. The research’s participants were adolescents from the second grade of a public high school in Lagoa Bonita do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Throughout the construction of the information, during the semi-structured interviews, a question script was used, with themes related to ICT (appropriations and uses), to the life and adolescence context, as well as to the mental health, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health. Regarding the analysis and discussion of the data, the information obtained through semi-structured interviews were analyzed and psychosocially interpreted, based on the procedural approach of the Social Representations Theory and theoretical constructs of Cultural Studies. Results indicate the presence of adolescence representations as a development stage, and not as a process, attributing characteristics such as irresponsibility and instability to the participants, although, at the same time, they are expected to be responsible, to make assertive choices, that help parents/guardians and to be “normal adolescents”.About the ICT uses and appropriations, it was found that they are inserted in the participant’s daily lives, appropriate not only for school assignments and entertainment, but also as an expression form, facilitator of communication and maintenance of social ties, being the ICT important factors in the identity construction process of this group, although their effects on health are still little recognized and known. Regarding the ICT and its effects on the participant’s exercise of sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, it was identified that these have been used as sources of information, especially about IST and pregnancy. However, the information that the participants have access to, is not always adequate, which has led to the reductionism of these dimensions in the preventive and biological scope.