| dc.description.abstract | Considering the scarcity of scientific publications of Psychology in Portuguese about
the relation of the human being with the new information and communication
technologies, this master's research intends to investigate the possibilities that this new
culture promotes for a work of identity significance. We are interested in the young
population of the city of Itacuruba, which is located in the micro-region of the
hinterland of São Francisco's river, flooded in 1988 for the construction of the Itaparica
dam. Its population began to live in a newly constructed city and to experience a reality
of adaptation due to the losses left by the extinction of its constituent place. The new
configuration led to important changes in the field of the identity dimension of these
people. Not only the city was submerged, but the history of each inhabitant. Moreover,
for a while, a growing state of illness in the new city could be identified, with an
increasement of cases of depression and suicides. This situation affected mainly the
young population. At the same time, the use of the resources of information and
communication technologies was increasing in the world scenario, allowing the
breaking of borders and new forms of relations. A generation belonging to this digital
universe was born, which began to circulate through cyberspace in a fluid way and to
construct new modalities and expressions of identity in it. Therefore, the main objective
of this research is to analyze how the use of the New Information and Communication
Technologies favors the elaboration of the identity issue of the young people of
Itacuruba, in their relationship with the city. And the secondary objectives are to
analyze in which way the reference of the old city exists for the young people who live
today in Itacuruba; to verify how digital technologies are used for the young people
under study; and to understand how social networks have modified the lives of young
people in Itacuruba. In order to elucidate this study, it was used a theoretical reference
that works on the identity theme based on Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis and
Cyberpsychology; conceptualizing and contextualizing the relationships that take place
in cyberspace. The methodology of the research is qualitative and includes a work of
Netnography, method of research applied to the environment of new technologies,
developed in person and through technological support for observation of the field of
research and access to the participants through semi-structured interviews. The data
processing resource was the content analysis, proposed by Bardin. And as a result it was
evidenced that there is a significant presence of new technologies in the daily life of
young people in the city, so that this universe starts to produce a new system of
references to live in Itacuruba. | eng |
