Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUCAS DIEGO GONÇALVES DA COSTA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUCAS DIEGO GONÇALVES DA COSTA
DATE: 04/06/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Presencial
TITLE:

ANALYSIS OF SOCIODISCURSIVE IMAGINARIES ABOUT
READING IN THE DIGITAL AGE, BASED ON NARRATIVES OF “SELF”
DUE TO THE OMNIPRESENCE OF SMARTPHONES:
Impacts of digital technologies on the culture of reading literature

KEY WORDS:

Interviews. Socio-discursive Imaginaries. Literature. Digital Technologies. Semiolinguistics. Digital Literacy. Smartphones.

PAGES: 155
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This Master's dissertation presents the research work we developed within the scope of the Postgraduate Program in Language Studies at the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG). Our research was developed in accordance with the scope of Line II - Discourse, Media and Technology of the Postgraduate course. Using Semiolinguistic Theory as our main theoretical-methodological reference, we sought to investigate which socio-discursive imaginaries readers construct and mobilize regarding their practices of Reading Literature based on the presence and use of smartphones on a massive scale. Our specific objectives with the research are: 1) to analyze which evaluations (positive or negative) the subjects make of the use of digital devices and the reflections/consequences of these technologies in Reading Literature; 2) to infer and analyze the subjects' imaginaries regarding their experiences of interaction and reading using smartphones and/or other digital devices and how they interfere in their lives (positively and negatively); 3) to examine the strategies they use in the reading process, based on the insertion/use of new digital technologies (more specifically smartphones); and 4) to reflect on the importance of Digital Literacy in society. In this research, we sought, through interviews/questionnaires sent by e-mail, to constitute our corpus for analyzing the narratives of subject-readers (specifically of Literature) about the acquisition or not of new reading modes with the advent of digital technological supports; and, essentially, about the perception of these interviewees of possible behavioral changes, based on the presence of smartphones in their daily lives. We emphasize that, in order to conduct the interviews, we relied on a preliminary authorization granted by the Ethics Committee for Studies with Humans of CEFET-MG. The inspiration for this research came from reading the book The Brain in the Digital World, by neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf, who “is a researcher, teacher and advocate for children and literacy around the world”. Another inspiration was the book Espaço Biográfico by author Leonor Arfuch, more specifically, the chapter on interviews as a research method in Human Sciences. We also referenced other authors from the fields of Philosophy, Neuroscience and Literature to develop our analyses and reflections. Our analyses allowed us to infer some socio-discursive imaginaries, about: i) the importance of parents and family in general in the formation of the subject-reader; ii) the positive perception of reading in printed books; iii) the influence of collective reading in the formation of reading habits; iv) the rejection of reading literary texts in electronic media by some subjects; v) the impacts of technology on the reading of Literature and on life (emotional consequences); vi) on the ubiquity of the massive presence of smartphones in daily activities and its consequences; vii) on the practicality of technology; viii) the need to seek self-control in the use of technologies and to pay attention to reading literature. The analyses anchored in the theoretical frameworks used indicate the pressing need to seek to think about the implementation of public policies and educational practices that lead to Digital Literacy at all social levels.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - CLAUDIO HUMBERTO LESSA
Interna - PATRICIA RODRIGUES TANURI BAPTISTA
Interno - VICENTE AGUIMAR PARREIRAS