Globalización, redes sociales y tráfico de drogas en Quito.

This research work is configured under the perspective of a new world reality, where globalizing aspects such as communication and information flow have become the ideal tools not only for activities considered legal to exploit their benefits, but also for illegal ones. Global interaction allows the appearance of opportunities to meet and interact with people from other latitudes in real time, in this context social networks have become a socio-cultural part of young generations worldwide, only Facebook accounts for more than 4 billion of users worldwide, making it the most widely accepted and influential social network in everyday aspects of life such as food, lifestyles, sexuality, art and of course also in the consumption of psychotropic substances. Currently the sale of drugs in European countries and other latitudes, considers aspects such as the use of alternative forms of payment, such as electronic money and Bitcoins (cryptocurrencies) for all its transactions. This new modality allows maintaining high levels of anonymity and makes it difficult to control by state security agencies. In the development of this work, qualitative research was used as a methodological line and semi-structured interviews with users, drug dealers through social networks; and on the street, and technical personnel of the National Police were used as methods. From this perspective, the question arose, how is the sale of drugs through the internet (Facebook network) configured in the city of Quito? After the investigation process, it will be argued that closed groups of social networks such as Facebook constitute the main tool for the sale of drugs through the internet to materialize. Therefore, the main objective of this research is not only to know the operation of a drug trafficking network through the social network Facebook, but to understand this dynamic in context with other aspects such as cultural, social, economic within the framework of the phenomenology of globalization and technological evolution from the point of view of Ecuadorian society and its different components.

• Egile nagusia: Naranjo López, Bayron David (author)
• Formatua: bachelorThesis
• Argitaratua: 2021
• Gaiak: Globalización; Internet; Drogas
• Sarrera elektronikoa: http://repositorio.iaen.edu.ec/handle/24000/6183