Comunicação e juventude no Morro da Mangueira : o espaço da Comunidade da Candelária

Abstract

This work is an immersion in the field, a qualitative research that has been in direct contact with its object, a group of youths calling themselves the "rats". These young people are residents of Hill of Mangueira, more precisely the slum of Candelaria, located in the north of the city of Rio de Janeiro.The issues raised are linked to the social relations of everyday life, as these young people are able to use your body to its fullest, and information and communication technologies to build their narratives. They are stories told through the experiences of everyday life, to help them establish their territoriality and places, ambiance shared by the affections and also enemies. In the field, in Candelaria, the research seeks to problematize relations body, the body as a communication medium in search of sociability, social and cultural recognition. From an issue raised by the rats during the field survey, it was realized the need to immerse themselves in a new medium to exploit communication, social networking Internet, an exploration netnografica. Relations between the two fields exploration and analysis were critical to better problematization of communication processes adopted by these young people. It was important to understand how social relations of friendship amid a group of friends, and the configuration of the notions of group, tribe and community are configured from the everyday communication. The analyzes were based on field by appropriations and reinterpretation of communicative language, body and communicative uses of communications media technology