Abstract

GOMEZ NAVARRO, Dulce Angélica. Social appropriation of digital technologies by young Maya students of higher education from Quintana Roo. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.23, e036.  Epub Feb 14, 2022. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v12i23.1055.

The digital divide is an inequality that is linked to other inequalities and affects populations living in poverty. Thus, most indigenous regions in Mexico have difficulties to connect, however, cell phone use has proliferated in rural areas in the last decade and young people are the most active users. This ethnographic study takes up the concept of social appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from a sociocultural perspective to understand the use of digital technologies and analyzes the social factors that influence the technological appropriation of young Mayans from the University Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo (UIMQROO), which, despite having limited and intermittent school experiences in the acquisition and use of ICT, daily use ICT and social networks as part of the need to belong to the digital age.

Keywords : digital divide; higher education; digital literacy; indigenous people; ICT.