Culturas juvenis, tecnologias da informação e comunicação e contemporaneidade

Abstract

With this work, we intent to: analyse the contemporaneity and impasses possibles, presented by juvenile cultures. The methodology used was research of the ethnographic type which favors the objective of mapping the academic institution and juvenile practices inserted in a context of technology and media challenges. As a result, it was observed that youngsters of a public school in the region of Matão, São Paulo State, Brazil, don't comply with material pressure. On the contrary, they want influence the world they live in starting from the creation of new ways of living the culture, which results in a preference for digital media, ways of space and time perception as well as new cognitive techniques are developed.