Entornos virtualesnuevos espacios para la investigación cualitativa

Abstract

The strong incursion of the communication and technological interaction in the society has caused deep and speedy transformations that affect to all the fields of the human activity. The incorporation of the TIC in the field of the social investigation in general and specifically in the qualitative investigation it supposes a thematic potential as meth-odological for the study of the social problem. The repercussions and socio-cultural transformations that these technologies generate so much in the different activities and people's interactions in their conventional environment as in the virtual one, it is ques-tion of interest and therefore of investigation for that which the investigator you "it dis-places" toward new spaces. The article presents a general panorama on the nature and dynamic of performance in the virtual environments as new scenarios of and for the qualitative investigation, which constitutes a fundamental methodological pillar in the social investigation