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V CAJU Forum

17/08/2018

With the sound of the song “Perfeição” by Legião Urbana, the V Forum of CAJU began, which took place on August 17, at Campus Cabula da Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública. The event, which is held by the Center for Attention to Youth (CAJU), had the theme “Social Networks and Virtual Relations: Cyberculture and Sociability of Young People”. The meeting proposed a different approach to discussing the subject with young people from different schools and communities in Salvador.

The coordinator of CAJU and professor of Psychology at Bahiana, Fábio Giórgio, explains how the methodology for this edition of the forum was structured: “This year we didn't bring a speaker. The chosen theme was social networking and cyberculture, and we organized twenty conversation circles made up of students from the Bahiana, teachers, students from public and private schools and young people from social projects”. Participants received a sheet of paper and were instructed to write what their profile on the network would be, who they were, what they liked and how they are characterized in this digital environment. At each table, there was the presence of a CAJU monitor as a mediator.

“The purpose of this event was to give young people a leading role, so that they could reflect on the characteristics of their virtual interactions with different people”, says Professor Fábio Giórgio.

Regarding the relationship between young people with the digital space, the Psychology professor and member of the CAJU management nucleus, Milena Lisboa, explained how these interactions occur: “We believe that, for youth, this new relational universe has very profound impacts in the subjectivation processes and because we are already a generation that is less crossed by technologies, we understand that they know more than we do”.

Although the fifth edition of the CAJU Forum did not have the participation of speakers, it was attended by Rodrigo Nejm, Director of SaferNet – NGO that promotes the human rights of the Internet – who observed how the dynamics of this type of event are constituted, the from his perspective as a digital scholar. “This meeting is very cool, offering the opportunity to hear from the young people and teenagers who are here, these different ways of living together and online. This idea of hearing their experiences from the youth is the most interesting and it will certainly make us able to think about them in a more legitimate way. It is pleasant to make this connection of generations with the institution's professors and managers and to have a dialogue about different ways of seeing the same life online, which is this life that we have shared on the network”, he said.

The CAJU monitors were students from Bahiana who chose to volunteer at the meeting. The Psychology student and monitor, Valéria Alves, highlights the protagonist role of the young participants: “I was very interested in CAJU because it is a youth movement. As much as the teachers are, they are young people getting involved on their own, deciding things together and building something. This event is my first opportunity as a monitor and I think it's interesting for us to participate, learn to mediate situations and shape this environment as our space.”

The V CAJU Forum was attended by students from Colégio Estadual Governador Roberto Santos, Colégio Anglo-Brasileiro and the State Nucleus of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Bahia (NEOJIBA). Jamile Santos, member of the NEOJIBA Young Leaders project, described how it was to participate in the event: “I found it interesting, for having addressed the subject of social media, which is something very personal, that we post and that everyone sees. It's a little challenging for us to sit together with a group we don't know and talk about ourselves, but it's a really cool and unique experience.”