Le rôle des nouvelles technologies dans la construction des stratégies identitaires des jeunes des quartiers populaires d’Istanbul

Abstract

This article examines some aspects of the articulation of youth in popular settlements of Istanbul to the use of new technologies of information and communication, as a result of a research project on three different types of peripheral urban areas. Neither a magic touch nor a total class-based deprivation, the technological experience of youth engenders a basic duality, which procures an abyssal split between those who can access to individualized new technologies, and those who cannot. This is, in fact, one of the principle specificities of the globalization process, which applies on its subjects a centrifugal effect procuring both in positive and negative directions. This phenomenon was observed in the case of young people who use more or less technology for by-passing their own limiting and partly oppressing social milieu, while they slip from local directly to global, due exclusively the extensive involvement to the Internet. Thus, a new urban experience is raising through a technologically compensated spatial isolation, by what we called, links of transversal jumping, though some others remain excluded from this global process. Keywords: New technologies of information and communication; Technological involvement of youth; Urban space; Global interaction; Virtual experience; Identity strategies of youth.