Digital Changes and Cybercoexistence in Young People from Rural Schools

Abstract

Virtual social networks have become digital spaces that allow social interaction and enable the construction of communication and support networks that transcend geographical boundaries; they have also generated various dynamics of sociability that can create risk behaviors in relation to interactions. From there, a research process was developed with the purpose of investigating the social and virtual interactions maintained by students in a boarding school in San Martín (Meta). Therefore, this document questions the interpretation of emotions and practices in the online interaction of young people from the Iracá Educational Institution, located in the rural area of the department of Meta; therefore, the following pages aim to contribute to the understanding of the different interactions of young people through ICTs; From the introduction, the population is contextualized and the development of the research process is described; which was supported by a qualitative-ethnographic method, which led, in the results, to identify and reveal the particular and common factors among students that allow the creation and consolidation of friendship networks. Thus, the discussion was framed in the socialization practices of students on/off line.