Abstract

MORALES, Susana. Juvenile practices of 'appropriation' of technolgical and media tools: How secondary school students make use of PCI (Programa Conectar Igualdad) computers. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.2, pp.64-79. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v7.n2.5.

This article discusses the theoretical perspective and the results of a research carried out in the city of Córdoba (2014-2015), on the may in which secondary school students make their appropriation process towards the utilization of personal computers provided by the PCI (Programa Conectar Igualdad). One of the main goals of the PCI is to diminish who have access to digital technologies and those who do not, in order to digital enlarge the number of students reached by digital inclusion. Taking into account the public policies in the matter, as researches, we are interested in observing the place these computers have in youngsters everyday life. Moreover, we are interested in describing the different ways of appropriation and identifying the factors which affect this practice. Nevertheless, the definition of the term appropriation that we sustain presupposes that the availability and access to technological tools are important matters, but then are not sufficient. It is also necessary to take into account the technological competences with is one of the many dimensions that constitutes the concept of appropriations. Generally, youngsters declare themselves to be experts on the use of a diverse variety of technological applications, mainly those ones related to entertainment and social networks. However, youngsters somehow ignore and barely explore the uses of these applications with are related to learning and the production of knowledge. Moreover, we notice that students acquire these types of alternative learning at school and these learning differ from those ones with are promoted by the market.

Keywords : Youngsters; Computers; Appropriation; Use.

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