Videojuegos durante la emergencia sanitaria como herramienta sociocomunicativa en los adolescentes. estudio de caso: Colegio Juan Montalvo

Abstract

The present research work, in the case analysis mode, finds its problem in the importance of new ways of reaching the public, among these the video games giving the respective relevance both to communicate and to teach, two branches of vital importance for the people socialization, even more so with the constant advancement that technology and all its articles offer to humanity, a problem that must be analyzed as a study objective by video game professionals, teachers and students, which will help to determine whether the use of video games as a new communication and teaching method helps in the socio-communicative aspect of students. The general objective of the research is to evaluate the socio-communicative dimension of video games during the confinement of students from Juan Montalvo highschool in Machala city, period 2020. For this, a case analysis is built focused on the students of Juan Montalvo highschool, which has a qualitative-quantitative methodology, where is used a triangulation of techniques such as: the interview that allowed an approach to the diversity of opinions that video game specialists and teachers presented the bibliographic review that strengthened the investigative work since by analyzing the different scientific articles they allowed to create a well-structured base methodologically and in the investigative aspect and the surveys that allowed an approach with what the students think about this wide world of the videogames. It is necessary to mention when the investigation began, the health emergency was not present, so a trip to Quito was made to an event called Global Game Jam, which allowed everyone to learn about video games together with everyone present. From knowing closely how a video game was created, several of the interviews that will be exposed later on could be carried out there, when the health emergency due to SARS COV-2 began, uncertainty came to the lives of all and for us who were At the forefront of this research, it grew even more without knowing for certain sciences how we were going to carry out the rest of the present work but in one way or another we adapted to this new normal and there were different methods to reach the people who would be participants in the development of the present thesis. In the interviews, the positive and negative aspects of video games were determined, where was evidenced the opinions of the interviewees reached a common ground in favor of video games and not only that, they mentioned about emotional attachment while transmitting a message that these can give to them. In addition, although they have different perspectives and ways of looking at video games, all of them come to highlight how beneficial video games can be in people's lives. The surveys also showed the different opinions of the students about video games and the contributions that these can generate when are brought to the classroom as a new communication and teaching method, it was pleasing to be able to observe how both students and teachers provided more answers