Os impactos sociais, cognitivos e afetivos sobre a geração de adolescentes conectados às tecnologias digitais

Abstract

The following paper has the objective of discuss, by the psychopedagogic insight, the consequences of the indiscriminate use of digital technologies by the teenagers. It’s a bibliographic study, with an exploratory bias, about the theme. Therefore, it was formulated the following guiding question: In which way the use of digital technologies affects the teenagers in a social, affective an educational scope? Thus, it was found an expressive amount of research about the theme. According with the data of the Manager Committee of internet in Brazil (2014), around 81% of the teenagers uses internet every day, showing the comprehensiveness of the use of digital technologies, and showing the importance of the scientific investigation about related themes. The text presents the information’s collected and systemized in sections, that feature the affective implications, mainly in family relation; social, approaching questions that affect the real and virtual social relations; and cognitive, highlighting the changed cerebral functions and the effects in learning. As principal results stand out: the family conflict, caused by detachment and lack of dialogue; the prominence of superficial relations and false intimacy and the illusion that everything is possible; obstacles in learning because of the internet dependency, anxiety disorders and attention deficit