Paper short abstract:

This paper presents and discusses the creation of the Núcleo de Pesquisa em Educação e Cibercultura (NUPEC) and its implications in teaching, research and extension with high school students integrated into professional education, based on an anthropological and netnographic approach to cyberspace.

Paper long abstract:

The Núcleo de Pesquisa em Educação e Cibercultura (NUPEC) is a research group created in 2019 and based at the Federal Institute of Pará, Belém campus. Its aim is to stimulate academic production and dissemination, drawing attention to the connections between the human sciences, particularly anthropology, and information and communication technologies. Taking as a starting point the impact of cyberculture (LEMOS, 2020) and mediatization (HJARVARD, 2013) on social processes and the argument by Cramer and Jandrić (2021) that we live in increasingly post-digital societies, the center brings together students registered in high school courses integrated with professional education who develop studies and extension actions focused on cyberspace, adopting netnography as the central methodological procedure. This paper presents the results achieved by the NUPEC through teaching projects, scientific initiation, and pre-university extension, emphasizing the study techniques used, the publications produced, the prizes obtained in science fairs, and the challenges that anthropology teaching and anthropologists face when working in pre-university professional education.