Between uprooting and attachment. Rural youth and ICTs in Uruguay. A qualitative approximation.

• Autor(a) principal: Sánchez Vilela, Rosario
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Borjas, Celeste
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa; eng
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/15686
• topic: Juventude. Ruralidade. TIC.; Youth. Rurality. ICTs.; Jóvenes. Ruralidad. TIC.

Studies on access and use of ICTs have been mainly focused on the urban country. On the contrary, rural youth have been poorly considered in their specificity. The objective of this research was to present an approximation to the understanding of rural youth in Uruguay in order to contribute to their visibility on the public space. In this article, the results of a qualitative study of a group of rural Uruguayan youths, made up of ten high school students of Montes Agrarian School, are presented. The route that we propose begins with the presentation of a general panorama on the place of young people in the Uruguayan population and the access to communication technologies as well as the discussion of the categories of youth and rurality. The methodological design adopts a socio-anthropological approach in search of meanings rather than impacts, through the implementation of the qualitative interview. In the analysis, special and temporal dimensions of everyday life are explored-; leisure, study and work times-; sociability and representations and imaginaries about these technologies and projections about the future. The results of the research allow us to identify some keys to understand the needs of this population group. The relationships that are established around ICTs are presented in an ambiguous and conflictive way. The key to interpret them lies in a vital situation crossed by the tension between the imminent expectation of migration to the city and personal growth and the desire to return to the rural and family environment.