Breves reflexões sobre as práticas de consumo de telefones celulares: sociabilidades e distinção no ambiente universitário

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of the consumption practices of high-value cell phones of people in graduation. Work in which I try to understand the issues of distinction, sociability and belonging in the daily life of these people. The main objective of the research was to analyze the practices of consumption of high value cellular phones by the university public, an analysis that sought to understand the issues related to their history of use, distinction, sociability and belonging in the daily life of these people. Thus, the research had the specific objectives of verifying that the practices of consumption of high-value cellular phones allow questions of belonging among the researched public; to analyze the impact of consumer practices on the issues of public sector distinction; and finally, to investigate the understandings of the perspectives of cellular consumption by a perception of questions of socioeconomic and symbolic orders within the university environment. For this, the research is based on the concepts constructed by Barbosa (2004), Canclini (1995), Miller (1997), Bourdieu (1997, 2007) and Slater (2001). The methodological process will be a compilation of the analysis of the interviews, the type of analysis was thematic by analytical categories. As a result of this research I can say that the consumption of the cell phone and its applications facilitates not only the understanding and understanding of what has been presented as its categories, the history of the cell phone in the life course, the sociability mediated by the cell phone, the search and feeling of belonging through applications and social networks accessed by the cell phone, but also to think and reflect on what is done with the device, what it implies in our relationship with others and the environments that surround us. As for the distinction between cell phone consumption practices of high economic value, it manifests itself in the discourses, criticisms and perspectives of consumption of the people I interviewed, mainly criticizing the consumption of others rather than their own.