Abstract

CHAPARRO-HURTADO, Héctor Rolando  and  GUZMAN-ARIZA, Claudia Maritza. Digital Consumption among School Children in Villavicencio, Colombia. educ.educ. [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.2, pp.229-243. ISSN 0123-1294.

This article is based on recognition of the crisis in the paradigm surrounding educational institutions with respect to the emerging subjectivities of youngsters and their digital consumption practices, which calls for a thorough review of what they say and do about information and communication technologies (ICT) and how the intervention of these technologies transforms the world at school, children's patterns of interaction, and the ways in which they construct their own identity. The study was intended to detect and analyze those practices and the discourses of urban school children in the city of Villavicencio (Colombia). The fieldwork included exploratory tasks in two contexts: the school and the Internet, based on scrutiny and participatory observation by recording and sharing in the convergences of children in these leisure spaces as part of an ethnographic exercise. The conclusions point to the existence of leisure spaces that clash, both quantitatively and qualitatively, with formal learning spaces; that is, times for play (socially considered unproductive and deficient) and times for formalized knowledge, which should be approached with rigor, attention and targeting. In dealing with juvenile subjectification processes, the project made it possible to recognize that digital technologies allow for new ways in which children can identify with themselves, with the environment and with others in an interrelationship where subjectivity, intersubjective ties and historically constructed culture unfold.

Keywords : Digitization; information technology; Internet; cultural identity; Colombia.

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