El impacto del Internet y las hipermediaciones en los jóvenes de la sociedad actual, las transformaciones y la disrupción tecnológica hasta los metaversos

Abstract

The impact on the consumption of audiovisual content in young university students who use the Internet in current Ecuadorian society, proposes to be able to identify patterns of how these young people are developing skills and learning strategies with the new media, what is the theoretical contribution and explanation from the network society, virtual society, hypermediations, interfaces to metaverses. The objective of this study is to analyze and reflect on how technological disruption through the Internet, social networks and audiovisual consumption transforms the social. The methodology used is of a mixed type in a single study where first a documentary bibliographical review was made and as a second moment, a survey was carried out where a focus group of university students with studies in different artistic disciplines was defined, the sample was 376 young people. out of a population of 16,540. It is concluded that citizens who are informed and articulated to new technologies are those who will be more capable of creating, producing knowledge, information and, ultimately, value in an economy that is based on information and knowledge. Young people enter into contact with new technologies at ever younger ages. The virtuality in which one lives is one of the fundamental dimensions of reality, one lives with the Internet and the connection between the virtual and the face-to-face, there are not two societies, what there are are two forms of relationship and social activity.