¿En dónde jugarán l@s niñ@s? Posmodernidad, cultura digital e hipersexualización infantil y adolescente

Abstract

In this paper we talk about certain social practices in which participate children and adolescents. In this practices, we suppose, risk sexual activities are carried out. To give an example, referring to the Public Health Area, are practices related to a high level of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. We don’t focus in this particular quality, even we think is very worrying. Our approach attends to two different dimensions of the phenomenon. On the one hand, we try to describe the historical period called postmodernity, in which we are living; on the other hand, we talk about the digital culture that not only facilitates the access to the Internet and the use of social networks sites, but normalizes certain social practices in general via the uses of Information and Communication Technologies. In addition, we suggest to approach to these kind of phenomenon with the psychoanalytical theory, which allows to identify psychodynamic realities such as the hypersexualization. More than just describe these social practices in its mere phenomenology, in the positive sphere, our goal is to problematize deeper and show the way in which the historical context, postmodernity, and digital culture and Internet use are affecting in the ways subjectivation processes of kids and teens are being radically modified nowadays.