Social Sciences and Digital Culture Studies: their contribution to thinking about the basic education classroom

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on how the use of social networks by young people influences the dynamics of sociology classes in secondary schools, given the digital transformations that have created a new relationship between schools, digital culture and teaching-learning processes.  We sought to understand how information and communication technologies are appropriated by connected students and the influence of digital culture in the school space. In this sense, we proposed looking beyond the school group, reflecting on these young people who also search for information on social networks, trying to understand them as social subjects who construct a certain way of relating to a school culture present in the school and a digital culture present on social networks, in other words, reflecting on who these young people are who attend school and sociology classes, and who seek interaction and socialisation at school and in cyberspaces. We held a workshop on the subject of social movements and human rights, which we worked on in the sociology track. The aim of the workshop was to provide access to discussions in the field of sociology and digital anthropology, in order to lead informed debates in the school environment that develop multilearning, working on the association between scientific, digital and pedagogical literacies.