Educational Approach To Technology-Related Young Relationships: Digital Identities, Privacy And Intimacy

Abstract

Digital identities shared in online socialization environments are key performatives influencing affective relationships. Current debates on the concept have highlighted the importance of taking this construction into account when understanding socialization processes of young people, in which multifocal cultural influences are at stake. This study, based on a qualitative methodology structured according to the precepts of digital ethnography, tries to approach the elements that make up the digital identities of young people on Twitter and Instagram. After working with 528 different profiles, relevant information is obtained on the elements making up personal biographies according to the different predefined interfaces. Conclusions got show the ways in which the scenarios that social networks draw become spaces for social experimentation and otherness' game. Also, they show a deconstruction of intimacy and privacy concepts.The importance of taking into account the emotional and affective level in educational environments is taken into account in order to improve psycho-pedagogy intervention and counselling.