This paper aims to analyze the proposed appropriations of the Rede de Crianças e Adolescentes Comunicadores de Língua Portuguesa by young people of Nova Olinda, Ceará. Specifically, the objective is to understand how these youth, subject to the contingent condition of access to material and symbolic, use a proposal that defend the local development via communication strategies on a global social network. this research combines theories of Latin American School of cultural studies and studies of social networks, via Manuel Castells, Scherer-Warren, Néstor García Canclini, Maria Salett Tauk Santos e Jesus Martin-Barbero. This is a case study that using combined techniques of data collection. The research shows that rural youth are embedded in the dynamics of social networks, but the technological mediations are not redemptive for the formation of collectives international.
Social Network; Rural Youth; Technology of Information and Comunication; Internet