Loneliness, gender and social research in the digital age

Abstract

The use and consumption of electronic devices and digital tools have changed the patterns of audiovisual communication and entertainment, especially among adolescents and young people, life stage in which the transition from childhood to adulthood takes place, also in everything related to masculinity and femininity as social constructions. As a result, the ways in which social research approaches their study has chanched too, posing both an epistemological and methodological challenge. Based on the presentation of some of the results of the author's doctoral thesis, she reflects on social relations, communication and gender in the digital era, an era marked by loneliness in front of the screen.