Metadiscourses on digital communication

Theoretical reflections and exploration of the narratives of university students

Abstract

The text explores the speeches of university students around digital communication, that every time has greater presence in their daily lives. The reflections start off to consider theoretical traditions proposed by Robert T. Craig (1999) as first to think what communicates about communication. Interest us, then, the ordinary speeches on daily communicating. The article is inserted in an investigation of greater reach, in which it was tried to approach, on the one hand, the speeches around the communication - in general, not only on digital communication- and by the other, the forms to speak about cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede (1980) about the power distance, individuality, aversion to uncertainty and masculinity; all it was made of comparative way, taking into account voices from American, Spanish and Mexican students. This text only offers and approach to the speeches of young Mexican students around, specifically, the forms of digital communication. Besides to offer some of the obtained empirical results of the interviews applied to the students, it presents some ideas of theoretical-conceptual cut, to continue feeding the debate around these forms of digital communication, that generate many contradictory speeches.