Abstract

ARISTIZABAL GARCIA, Diana Marcela. Children “connected”: an ethnographic approach to the experiences of children, families and schools from the use of tablets (Bogotá, Colombia). Runa [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.2, pp.257-278. ISSN 1851-9628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/runa.v41i2.6184.

The aim of the article is to analyse how the encounter of children with a technological artefact as tablets traces important challenges in the social roles of institutions such as the family and the school that go beyond the concerns of public policy on access and material consumption. The introduction of tablets in the school and family environment represents changes in the forms of cultural relationship between these, with the adults around them (parents, teachers). Likewise, the research problem was addressed through the ethnographic study (2015-2018) and the theoretical analysis from the Social Studies on Cultural Consumption. Thus, the tablets, far from being a neutral technological artefact, raises questions in relation to the conception of childhood in contemporary context and the best ways to educate and raise children.

Keywords : Childhood; Use of tablets; Cultural consumption; Family; School.

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