Usos, apropiaciones y nuevas prácticas comunicativas de los usuarios adolescentes de facebook

Abstract

The article identifes the uses and appropriations that adolescents make of Facebook and the communication practices that arise from tthese. It was framed in a mixed approach of descriptive character, applying a survey to adolescents that allowed to understand the communication elements that are affected using Facebook, and an interview to know which are the appropriations. It was found that adolescents use Facebook for socialization and for the defnition of their identity, regardless of space and time. Adolescents establish social interactions, using Facebook, which is appropriated due to different activities and communicative practices that are corresponded through the construction of communicational signs that occur in the interactions.