Public-private controversies in social networks and adolescence.

Survey study

Authors

  • Ángela González-Villa Universidade de Santiago de Compostela https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-6236
  • Adriana Gewerc Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Keywords:

teenagers, social networks, public-private, privacy

Abstract

Public exposure in digital environments is a common social practice among contemporary teenagers that forges new geographies for traditionally private realities. This study analyzes the perception of the teenagers of Compulsory Secondary Education of Galicia (Spain) about what they consider public or private in social networks, the implications of their participation and the regulations of the platforms. The public-private is visualized as the axis of the controversies that feed the new subjectivities. The exhibition imperative generates capital and social recognition that results in margins of satisfaction strained by modesty or possible digital risks. Through a descriptive-comparative methodology based on an ad hoc questionnaire applied online, the results warn that teenagers with a profile on social networks publish content due to a need for exposure. The composition of the audience and the idealization of the reality to be shown are factors that affect the publication of content. Significant differences in public-private treatment are identified according to the type of participation in these environments. The conclusions highlight the need for a critical training connected with the adolescent reality.

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Author Biographies

Ángela González-Villa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Predoctoral researcher with the University Teacher Training contract [FPU19/01208] of the Ministry of Education, Innovation and Universities in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Her main lines of research revolve around educational technology, gender identity in digital environments and the construction of adolescent subjectivity in exposure practices in social networks. He has participated in different studies and national projects that deal with these axes, carried out in the Stellae Research Group (GI143), where he develops his research activity

 

Adriana Gewerc, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Professor of Educational Technology in the Degree of Pedagogy of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) with accreditation to chair. She is coordinator of the Stellae Research Group (GI143) since 2015 and a member of REUNI+D (https://reunid.eu/) since its foundation. Her lines of research are focused on the inclusion of technologies in teaching from a pedagogical perspective and the influence of the construction of gender identity in digital environments. She has directed, as Principal Investigator, more than 15 research projects funded by public bodies both in Spain and Latin America. With a production of more than 60 articles, 10 books and 34 book chapters.

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Published

2022-10-29

How to Cite

González-Villa, Ángela, & Gewerc, A. (2022). Public-private controversies in social networks and adolescence.: Survey study. Revista Prisma Social, (39), 289–310. Retrieved from https://revistaprismasocial.es/article/view/4854