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Giovani esploratori dell'universo mediale
No full textIl capitolo tratta di cosa significhi parlare di giovani e mezzi di comunicazione e come questo rapporto può, nella ricerca, essere declinato in vari modi. Si discutere del modo ambivalente di parlare dei giovani e del loro rapporto con la comunicazione, decostruendo alcune definizioni deterministiche e introducendo il concetto di bricoleur high tech, uno strumento concettuale utile per comprendere il senso che ragazze e ragazzi danno alle loro pratiche di utilizzo dei media. Per concludere, illustreremo gli obiettivi di questo volume e gli strumenti che metteremo a disposizione per comprendere al meglio la questione giovani e media
Il volto digitale di eros, agape e philia. Adolescenti, amore e sessualità nella "grande rete"
Full text linkAdolescents and youth are big consumers of the internet. Today, what we call online social media, such as social network sites (SNS), blogs, etc. are an important part of young people's life (Pujazon-zazik, Park 2010). Youth are increasingly utilizing these communicative tools to support or to enhance their "offline" relations (Subrahmanyam, Greenfield, 2008; Livingstone 2010).
The author's research focuses on a field that is very much neglected by the Italian sociological studies, aiming to understand the current state of the youth culture in relationship to the internet and sexuality.
The work seeks to understand how young italians today use the internet to gain and access information (visual images, discussions, discourses) about sexual and intimate life and activities; to understand 'how' and 'why' they use (or choose not to use) this particular medium, and what kind of social impact can be observed in this relatively new phenomenon.
The research seek (1) to understand what multimedia platform young Italian use to have access to information and discourses connected to sexuality; (2) to understand why they use (or don't use) this media; (3) to define the extent of Internet on the youth's experience on sexuality and their social construction; (4) to understand the definition of previously points to eventually rough out differences between boys and girls understanding how gender difference could be constructed in the Internet.
Everything avoiding to the oversimplifying labels of the Internet as either an entirely dangerous or entirely safe space .
With this research, the author wants to draw an attention to the problematic relationships between the "real" and "virtual", between the everyday life experience that contain also what someone define "virtual" life experience, an experience mediated by the social and cognitive space where the absence of the body plays a paradoxical roll in their (self-learning) education of sexuality and construction of identity.
The research is based on a qualitative approach and, more specifically, on participatory approach with focus groups, interviews and on-line focus groups with adolescents from 16 years old to 18 years old.
The main results of the research show an interesting panorama where the Internet goes to be integrated into everyday life with the classic agents of socialization (School, family, friends) in different ways depending on the dialogue that in the other places is permitted to adolescents. For the interviewed the Internet becomes important because it allows to cope with embarrassment, fear of the "firsts times" (first sexual intercourse, first kiss, etc.), curiosity, etc. Internet, overall with SNS, becomes an important part of the construction of identity of adolescents that with online resources try to "play" and define which Erving Goffman (1963) called social identity and personal identity. Everything goes to a specific direction: what the girls and the boys interviewed define "normality": a standardized idea of the gender roles and of the identity, something that "jump" in the "online" and "offline" spaces as a unique region without borders
Men have to be competent in something, women need to show their bodies gender, digital youth cultures and popularity
No full textSocial media represents a significant part of digital youth culture, providing young people with models, symbolic resources, and space for self-presentation and reputation management. This study explored how the ideal of entrepreneurialism, which marks the social media logic of attention and visibility, is appropriated by young people in ways that allow them to challenge or reaffirm traditional gender and sexual norms. This research was based on empirical material collected through online workshops involving 12 Italian schools (42 classes and about 900 students), in which we asked participants to join in an activity to create fictional accounts that could become popular with their peers. Our analysis shows that young people discursively construct gender and sexual norms, frequently reproducing dominant cultural discourses on gender and heteronormativity. Young people’s discourse focuses on the apparent feminization of the internet and a perception of social media platforms as belonging to the female sphere. The feminization of the internet leads to a discourse concerns men’s need to link technical competence, professionalism, and masculinity to reproduce the stereotypical portrayal of women as bearers of an innate sexual power that compensates for their perceived lack of digital skills
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