As redes sociais nos espaços escolares: mecanismos de socialização e construção do "self"

Abstract

The study "Social networking in school environment: socialization mechanisms and construction of self" tries to understand the representation / presentation of the bloke and the students’ socialization processes in school environments allied with the construction of meanings that students attribute to the use of social networks. In order to do that, it sought to determine whether the use of social networks have influenced the detachment or reformulations of relations face to face in school vacation, in view of the increasing use of mobile devices with access to social networks by students. It also tried to map the periods in which high school students who study at night use mobile phones at school X and which implications and changes are noticed in the dynamics of the classes and during breaks. For such explanations it calls on historical clippings of how modernity modifies school environments in aesthetic and behavioral terms. Specially, it was discussed the influence of information technologies focused on social networking and its implications in school environments covering socialization, communication, expression and the construction of the self among the students. The methods used were: 60 students covering quantitative and 10 students covering qualitative. Although, it is a phenomenon in transition it’s possible to point out that among students is consensus: social networks are mechanisms of socialization and contribute and strengthen friendship ties. School before social networks had more play, interaction and socialization. Cell phone used in classroom disrupts the school development, though, most of the students insist on using it even they are aware of its consequences and impacts on concentration and knowledge. Embarrassment situations and the search for popularity are common elements in social networks between friends or acquaintances, and family on social networking is understood as a pendulum, sometimes is positively and sometimes is inhibitor, inspecting the threads that students post in their social networks. General impact and friendships through social networks are also key parts of this survey.