The pirate screen: uses and appropriations of the audiovisual in internet by the young

Abstract

The following paper focuses on the uses and appropriations of the audiovisual material in Internet, specifically, through the practices of downloading and viewing of pirate websites. In theoretical terms, it is understood to technologies, following Raymund Williams (2011), from their uses and not in their technological deterministic variant or symptomatic technology. The pirate notion is echoed by Henry Jenkins (2006 and 2010) to characterize the subject of the communication that uses the digital technologies, who appropriates of the materian of Internet and resignifies it, giving it a space in his constitution as fan. Moreover, the ideas of appropriations, objetivizations, additions and conversions are worked from the postulates of Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsh and David Morley (1997). The work is based- in qualitative methodological- on semi structured interviews to young people from 14 to 21 years old from the location of Quilmes, with whom we dialogued about the uses, appropriations and significations they gave to the cultural industry of the digital audiovisual.