Posicionamiento político joven en el marco de la protesta social latinoamericana

Abstract

This article arises as a product of the elective International Seminar on Article Writing carried out by the Doctorate program in Education and Society of the University of La Salle in cooperation with the Canoas University of Brazil in the second semester of 2021. The purpose of This seminar was based on preparing a scientific article product of the reflections of the Research Seminars seen. For this reason, it was chosen to analyze the political position of young people in Latin America from the use they made of social networks to demand recognition of their demands by the Government. This is how the participation of young people from Twitter is studied, in order to understand their political position in the public sphere and their social representations in the exercise of social protest. For this purpose, the idea of politics of Hannah Arendt and Chantal Mouffe is addressed, the participation of young people in this social network is examined, the young political position in the public sphere is described within the framework of the Latin American social protest and finally, the trends of the messages published on Twitter related to social protest. The analysis was carried out from a qualitative approach, reviewing the tweets published between 2015 and 2021 in order to find out the political positions of young people: some keywords and hashtags were used to identify prominent messages in the search, and in this way, examine them. From the perspective of critical discourse analysis. It was concluded that young people demonstrate a political position consistent with undertaking social struggles that claim their rights in Latin America, transform realities that imply the violation of their life projects, participate in the public sphere and devise an economic model that provides well-being.