The Smartphone in the school field: analysis of the scientific discourse produced in the articles of the Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (REDALYC)

Abstract

Twenty-first century school is having a unique transformation; The staging of the technological (in generic terms) and smartphones (in particular terms), triggered the emergence of new realities whose main features were constituted, in the last decades, in the scholar field. In this matter, scientific discourse has been producing some enunciative regularities in smartphone-school thematic intersection, a topoi, which has come to define the boundaries of the enunciable / thinkable in the framework of that particular field of knowledge that merges the technological with the academics. In that sense, this work examine, through the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), 28 articles that are part of the database of the Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe (REDALYC). The discursive regularities that typify the thematic intersection smartphone-school (object of interest) were identified, outlining, in a preliminary way, the enunciative field instrumental-utilitarian from which knowledge-power relations are constituted through which the scientific-scholar has been thinking, stating, the thematic axis under consideration.