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phenomenological research; hermeneutic ́s phenomenology; smartphones, Martin Heidegger, mobile devices;
This doctoral research aims to understand the meanings of the experience of suffering of young people and adults due to the excessive use of their smartphone. As a hermeneutic phenomenological study, inspired by Martin Heidegger ́s ideas, we aim at a more accurate look at how the being-in-the-world is permeated by the aspects of its time. This research counted with the participation of six collaborators, however, for the present qualification, the narratives of two of them were brought, due to the depth and extension that each analysis reached. The research was publicized on social networks and the collaborators were selected based on their expression of interest in participating in the study. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the interviews were conducted remotely, through the Google Meeting application. As instrument, we used Narrative Interviews, with the intention of listening to the experience of our collaborators, by a particular and phenomenological way of interviewing. The information obtained from the interviews was interpreted from hermeneutic circularity, considering and counting on the researcher's affectation throughout the research. We sought an approximation to the existence of our collaborators, who, in a very singular and profound way, shared their experiences of intense suffering due to the use of the smartphone and how this relationship ends up bringing damage to their existence as a whole. This research promoted deep reflections about the ways we are using mobile devices and the impacts of these usage modes in our quality of life, in our health, and, especially, in our ways of relating in the world and with the people who are around them.