Diferencias digitales entre adolescentes onubensesidentificación, sexismo y amor romántico

Resumen

Despite the fact that gender equality is apparently present in the social and political sphere, factors such as differential socialization, romantic love and sexism appear to affect different modes of gender inequality in general and through social networks during adolescence in a very particular way. The present study aims to address the above-mentioned factors in adolescence through their expression in social networks. The profile of the sample was formed by young people from 14 to 16 years old who lived in rural and urban areas of the province of Huelva. The methodological strategy is mixed, at a quantitative level a sample of 400 young people was taken, to whom a questionnaire was applied composed of various nationally validated scales on identification, romantic love and sexism; at a qualitative level there were 33 young people and 14 professionals in education and gender equality who participated in interviews and discussion groups. The results showed how in the Huelva adolescence we are approaching, it shows differences between girls and boys in their way of identifying themselves, in the belief of myths of romantic love and sexism, giving rise to beliefs and behaviors that are consistent with established gender roles, favoring the digital gender divide and empowering themselves through social networks such as Instagram and Snapchat. On the other hand, discourses appear in girls that induce change and look critically at their own positions or propitiate new forms, which oppose the binary gender dualization, culturally established.