Os significados da internet e das redes sociais para a juventude

Abstract

The society of the twenty-first century is the network society. The network not only as a technical means of communication or movement, but the network as an architecture. Such a structure has, in the Internet and mobile connection devices, the vehicle of its materialization. The spread of Internet usage reached, in less than two decades, all sectors of our society, built a new form of articulation between the states, the companies, the market, the society and the institutions. Created a new standard of sociability, suitable for youth, increased the use of the internet. This generation, which will reach maturity in the second half of the century, was born under the sign of informational, has virtual sociability integrated to real relations of sociability, transfers them from the real world to the virtual and, more importantly, uses the virtual world as a tool of communication and social transformation trough social networking and messaging system. Here are the aims of this work: understand the construction of this new pattern of sociability, in particular by the youth, its reflections on the various uses of the Internet and the transformation of social networking in tools to convene large social mobilizations.