The Agentic Technological Self

Identidades aspiracionais, acadêmicos, e atividades digitais

Autores

  • Laura Robson Santa Clara University
  • Jeremy Schulz Berkeley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36517/psg.v15i2%20especial.94457

Resumo

Neste artigo, buscamos compreender como a identidade aspiracional pode ser influenciada por atividades digitais. O estudo se baseia em dados originais de pesquisa com mais de setecentos jovens de baixo nível socioeconômico, matriculados em uma escola secundária agrícola na Califórnia, e em um subconjunto de entrevistas correspondentes, que geraram dados qualitativos. Nessa abordagem multi-metodológica, apresentamos duas perspectivas complementares. Na primeira parte, utilizamos análise comparativa qualitativa para realizar uma série de testes de suficiência para prever a ocorrência de dois desfechos relacionados ao desempenho acadêmico e dois desfechos associados à intensidade da pesquisa na internet. Na segunda parte, usamos dados qualitativos para investigar até que ponto esses padrões podem elucidar o nexo entre as atividades digitais e o trabalho de identidade aspiracional. Para melhor compreender as implicações das desigualdades digitais nesses processos, o estudo se apoia no conceito do agentic technological self, o qual fornece um paradigma de selfing.

Biografia do Autor

Laura Robson, Santa Clara University

Laura Robinson is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. After earning her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she held a Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Studies, her other affiliations include the UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the Cornell University Department of Sociology, Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, USC Annenberg Center, and the École Normale Supérieure. Her service positions include Series Co-Editor of Emerald Studies in Media & Communications and Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities, North American Coordinator of the Brazil-U.S. Colloquium on Communication Research, Organizing Committee Member of the Media Sociology Symposium, Steering Committee Member of the Digital Sociology Thematic Group of the International Sociological Association, and CITAMS Section Chair 2014-2015. Her research has earned awards from CITASA, AOIR, and NCA IICD for her work on digital inequalities and digital sociology in Brazil, France, and the United States.

Jeremy Schulz, Berkeley

Jeremy Schulz is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on digital inequality and work and wealth among economic elites. He has also done research and published in several other areas, including digital sociology, sociological theory, qualitative research methods, work and family, and consumption. His article, “Zoning the Evening,” is published in Qualitative Sociology and received the Shils-Coleman Award from the ASA Theory Section. Other publications include “Talk of Work” published in Theory and Society and “Shifting Grounds and Evolving Battlegrounds,” published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Since earning his PhD at UC Berkeley he has held an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University.

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Publicado

2024-11-24

Como Citar

Robson, L., & Schulz, J. (2024). The Agentic Technological Self : Identidades aspiracionais, acadêmicos, e atividades digitais. Passagens: Revista Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Comunicação Da Universidade Federal Do Ceará, 15(2 especial), 134–161. https://doi.org/10.36517/psg.v15i2 especial.94457

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Seção

Dossiê Identidades infantis e juvenis na cultura digital