Crescenzo Nadia
Department of Political and Social Studies, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.
Front Sociol. 2023 Aug 24;8:1197560. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1197560. eCollection 2023.
The aim of the paper is to analyze how the qualitative method represents a tool capable of analyzing the youth experience in the digital context. The contribution takes as a starting point the results of a didactic exercise experimented in the course of "Sociology of youth cultures" by the students of the University of Salerno in which the qualitative method of netnography was applied to study some youth practices online. During the work carried out, the qualitative method represented a way to study the universe of young people, entering the "new digital habitats," where young people create and reproduce relationships, identities and spaces for socializing. The results showed, first of all, how the method of netnography made it possible to analyze the contours and transformations of youth practices in digital spaces, and secondly it allowed to arouse "reflexivity" in young people, it allowed to activate a process in which young people have looked at themselves "in the mirror," entering the folds of the virtual worlds of youth and are amazed at the way in which they represent themselves, becoming observers and observers of that same reality. The qualitative approach has therefore allowed the students to grasp the youth practices in which they are immersed in their daily life from another point of view and have had the opportunity to analyze them from the inside and develop a high degree of reflexivity that it helped to reach a different awareness of being young today and of being able to read the cultural dynamics of youth with a critical eye.
本文旨在分析定性方法如何成为一种能够分析数字环境中青年体验的工具。该论文的贡献以萨勒诺大学学生在“青年文化社会学”课程中进行的一次教学实践结果为出发点，在该实践中应用了网络民族志的定性方法来研究一些在线青年行为。在开展的工作过程中，定性方法成为研究青年群体世界的一种方式，进入“新的数字栖息地”，在那里年轻人建立和再现人际关系、身份认同以及社交空间。结果首先表明，网络民族志方法如何能够分析数字空间中青年行为的轮廓和转变，其次它能够激发年轻人的“反思性”，开启一个过程，在这个过程中年轻人“审视自己”，深入青年虚拟世界的细节，对自己呈现自我的方式感到惊讶，成为同一现实的观察者和审视者。因此，定性方法使学生能够从另一个角度理解他们日常生活中所沉浸的青年行为，并有机会从内部对其进行分析，培养高度的反思性，这有助于形成对当今青年身份的不同认识，以及用批判性眼光解读青年文化动态的能力。
