The public/private relationship in youth mediated by digital social media platforms

Abstract This article aims to discuss, through exploratory and bibliographic research, the relationships between the public and the private in the life of young people mediated by digital social media platforms. Initially, the article approaches the main characteristics of this population, and then throws light on digital social media platforms and their algorithms. The last part of the text addresses the public/private relationship for urban youths in their digital social media. The main result is an in-depth discussion about the conflicting relationship between capitalist platforms of digital social media and the young mind that barely manages to perceive the difference between public and private.