Usos e apropriações das tecnologias por sujeitos do movimento hip hop de Santa Maria: reconfigurações nas práticas de resistência, pertencimento e reconhecimento

Abstract

Through this investigation, we seek to understand how information and communication technologies interact with hip-hop culture practices and processes in Santa Maria/RS. We used a main question to understand how hip-hop culture subjects relate to these technologies: How information and communication technologies are fit to hip hop culture subjects in order to understand its role in this culture resistance, belonging and acknowledgement practices. The main goal was investigating multiple information and communication appropriations by hip-hop culture subjects in Santa Maria. Therefore, we have developed these specific objectives: 1) analyzing communication practices and processes in hip-hop culture subjects in Santa Maria, made possible by information and communication technologies; 2) Investigate how technology appropriation participate in meanings of belonging, acknowledgement and resistance to acting hip-hop culture subjects; 3) identify information and communication technologies social uses related to hip-hop environment on social media. This investigation uses transmethodological perspective (Maldonado, 2015), composed of mixed and multiple methods from several areas of knowledge. Thus, methodological procedures were participant observation, online observation, field journal and semi-structured interviews. Through investigation, we learned that these technologies have great potential in resistance, acknowledgement and belonging practices to hip-hop subjects. Even though they are technologies with predetermined rules, subjects are able to subvert the dominant order and appropriate to their own interests as work disclosure, identity recognition, highlighting black female identity, visibility for several social issues such as racism, chauvinism, prejudice and police violence. Furthermore, we realized that they facilitate hip-hop event managing processes, as well as approximate subjects that are part of Santa Maria‟s hip-hop culture. In conclusion, technology appropriation by hip-hop partners amplify spaces for political and cultural manifestations, but do not obliterate the urban canary relevance to maintain and consolidate hip-hop as a social resistance culture.