Abstract

LEON-PASQUEL, Lourdes de. Between Romantic Texting and Ethnorock on YouTube: Repertoires of Identity in the Virtual Landscapes of Tsotsil Mayan Youth. LiminaR [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.1, pp.40-55. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v16i1.563.

This study examines the use of digital technologies (primarily cell phones) by Tsotsil Mayan youth in the form of texts (SMS), as well as other interchanges on YouTube websites of Tsotsil musical groups. My analysis addresses “virtual landscapes” as new forms of peer socialization and sociability from an ethnographic, semiotic, and sociolinguistic approach. These landscapes can be characterized as vehicles for identity expressions of ethnic youth cultures. I conclude that media youth identities are configured by the reciprocal development of macro-social processes and emergent and situated communicative practices in everyday digital interchanges.

Keywords : cell phone; social networks; digital communication; youth; identity; Mayan; culture; globalization.

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