Gender and the meaning of tecnosociales relations; a qualitative study of social networks as the scene of representatio and identity

Abstract

Today the social networks are important spaces of social interaction or to be more specific interaction tecnosocial, i.e. spaces in which users interact and relate by means of the technology. With the possibility of sharing information and images with other users both known and unknown, has also emerged an interesting debate on the boundaries between the public sphere and the private sphere and many consider that in certaincases these frontiers disappear or become more diffuse, creating situations of confusion and conflict. However, it should be noted that the meaning of these spaces, is going to depend on the one hand a variety of practices and rules of interaction that have arisen in the networks and by another of learning processes. The present text analyzes therefore social practices and the roles that adopts the people in social networks. The purpose is to generate new reflections on the meaning of the interaction tecnosocial and discuss how to build representations of gender in these spaces.