'You show me yours, I'll show you mine': the negotiation of shifts from textual to visual modes in computer-mediated interaction among gay men

This article explores the way users of an online gay chat room negotiate the exchange of photographs and the conduct of video conferencing sessions and how this negotiation changes the way participants manage their interactions and claim and impute social identities. Different modes of communication provide users with different resources for the control of information, affecting not just what users are able to reveal, but also what they are able to conceal. Thus, the shift from a purely textual mode for interacting to one involving visual images fundamentally changes the kinds of identities and relationships available to users. At the same time, the strategies users employ to negotiate these shifts of mode can alter the resources available in different modes. The kinds of social actions made possible through different modes, it is argued, are not just a matter of the modes themselves but also of how modes are introduced into the ongoing flow of interaction.

Textual Differences in Game Reviews Written by Men and Women

The aim of this essay is to examine the differences in language use between the genders in game reviews, to find whether there are differences in the use of the language depending on gender. Both sexist language and technical aspects are examined, the technical aspects of writing have been chosen from previous research about gendered differences in writing. The reviews are randomly chosen but the games are selected. There is an equal amount of games with male and female main characters, and the number of reviews is chosen according to the number of reviews written by females, as there are fewer of them, and thus easier to find a matching number of reviews written by males rather than vice versa. The reviews are then examined to find sexist language and differences. This essay finds that there is sexist language in the writing of both genders, such as marked language, but only when the main character of the game is female. Both genders tend to focus on the appearance of female characters and the characteristics of male characters, but there is no known previous research about male and female game characters to compare these results to. However, the technical differences remain consistent with previous research on the same subject, such as female reviewers using more pronouns than male reviewers, and male reviewers using fewer verbs than female reviewers.

Elementos em interação na produção textual escolar : a influência da família

Esta dissertação aborda as relações estabelecidas entre sujeito-família-escola e suas possíveis influências do desempenho textual do indivíduo. O objetivo central desta pesquisa é procurar elementos determinantes para as diferenças no desempenho em produção textual de sujeitos na faixa etária dos nove aos onze anos de idade, num meio sociocultural favorecido. Os instrumentos metodológicos utilizados foram a entrevista semi-estruturada, a análise documental e a observação participante. A partir da análise das configurações familiares foram constatadas algumas consonâncias entre grupos de sujeitos que apresentam um bom desempenho textual, bem como entre aqueles que não atingem os objetivos mínimos na escrita de textos narrativos. Destacou-se a prática da leitura de histórias infantis pelos pais desde a primeira infância e uma interação harmônica e constante na participação dos pais no investimento pedagógico como fatores comuns dentre os sujeitos com satisfatória competência textual. Enfatizou-se a necessidade de um estudo específico das configurações familiares nos cursos de formação de professores como forma de qualificar seu currículo e, conseqüentemente, sua prática pedagógica.

Ilustração e interpretação textual: a arte como estratégia de ensino-aprendizagem na área de linguagens e códigos

Investiguei a arte como estratégia de ensino/aprendizagem e como esta prática estabelece quebra de paradigmas e incentivo à autonomia discente. Para tanto fiz uma breve descrição histórica acerca do panorama teórico correlacionado com o percurso das inovações educacionais desde o final da Idade Média até a contemporaneidade, buscando identificar de que forma o acúmulo teórico-metodológico gerado por este itinerário influenciou na disciplina Arte/Educação e no seu potencial inovador. Observei ainda como a ilustração textual, produzida pelos educandos, funciona como veículo de reelaboração crítica de suas realidades mediata e imediata. Esta investigação teve como sujeitos alunos do nono ano do Ensino Fundamental II, no decorrer de 2011, na escola autogestionária Waldorf Micael, em Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil. Ao longo das observações, procurei responder às seguintes questões: De que maneira a ilustração textual se configura na qualidade de mediadora de processos interpretativos no contexto de ensino/aprendizagem em arte e literatura? De que forma, ela, no contexto da sistemática pedagógica, se revela como ferramenta de inovação pedagógica? Qual a sua importância no desenvolvimento do senso crítico do educando, e como tal fato se configura inovador? Como interfere na apreensão da realidade do educando, no seu aspecto estético, político e social? Os dados da investigação foram obtidos por meio de entrevistas, análise documental e observação participante; dessa forma esta pesquisa configurou-se como qualitativa, do tipo etnográfica e de base hermenêutica.

Correntes em rede: uma interpretação imagética e textual das correntes religiosas virtuais

This paper develops an analysis of virtual chains religious imagetic. The profusion of images that accompanies us is an irrefutable fact today. The imagetic and virtual join the religion. The approach of the old with the new makes possible the emergence of this new religious practice. Therefore, the study sought to characterize the context in which the virtual chains religious develop. From this perspective, emphasizes religion and cyberculture in order to explain how from that link, it originates an element that exemplifies the current society imagery. This study of the chains takes place from the perspective of the receiver. The image is considered as language, while in communicating becomes capable of imitation

Gêneros do discurso e escrita: o que as coleções didáticas de português (des)prestigiam no ensino da produção textual?

Through the examination of official indicators, it can be observed that writing is pointed out as one of the main problems concerning formal basic education. However, this teaching-learning object is one of the central objectives at school, having an essential role in different curricular components as well as in the interaction demands required by society. Such paradox indicates, therefore, the relevance of investigations which analyze the intrinsic elements of child development as written text producer. Hence, the main purpose of this research consists of analyzing the treatment given to the types of discourse and the teaching situations in which the written text are produced, concerning Portuguese language didactic material collections approved by Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD 2010) the Brazilian program of didactic book and worked at elementary school. Such materials correspond to the collections adopted in municipal education system schools from Natal, RN which were below the official education indicator IDEB 2009. Thus, the questions that guide this work are: 1. During writing production lessons, is the diversity of types of discourse effectively worked on didactic collections? 2. Which are the types of discourse and the social spheres prioritized when teaching writing production? 3. How is the situation addressed in the production of the written text should be produced? For this research, we retook the authors Bakhtin, Bunzen, Faraco, Freire, Rodrigues, Rojo, Schneuwly e Dolz and we made a list of all types of discourse and spheres contemplated in the propositions of the writing production in didactical books, concerning the eight collections which compounds the first moment of analysis. Then, we verified how the situation of production is oriented by examining two didactic collections if and how they express the elements referring to the social-historical, functional and linguistic-discursive context of the text to be produced. The data obtained indicate: lack of diversification of types of discourse in the collection that compounds the Aggregate Sample of the research; the conception of a diversity based on the didactic of visiting; the recognition of all canonical and hegemonic types of text as one of the privileged objects of study; the centralization on the standard variety of the language and the devaluation of the representative types of cultural diversity; the shortage of productions which retrace to written language related to different technologies of communication and information; and the little emphasis on the types of discourse related to public language practices. As for the situations of production, it is observed the predominance of the school as a producer of dialogic relationships, whose propositions present, for example, text addressees, enunciative positions, support and contexts of restricted circulation, especially at school. Two divergent situations are observed among the collections: the lack of a work in which the situation of production is under the perspective of the types of discourse as object of teaching-learning; the concept of the types of discourse as object of reflection, presenting a differentiated didactic orientation towards the situation of production. This research contributes, therefore, with a mapping of the existence and the treatment of the types of discourse on propositions of writing production in didactic books; with the critical analysis of the approach of written activities, considering the elements of the historical-social, functional and linguistic-discursive context; thus, through teaching, research and public policies, use and selection of didactic material for the area

A parentetização: estratégia de construção textual-interativa do chat educacional

Este artigo descreve, sob a Perspectiva Textual-Interativa, tal como definida por Jubran (2006a), a parentetização (JUBRAN, 1996, 2006b) em uma conversação síncrona mediada por computador, voltada para a esfera educacional, escrita em espanhol por participantes brasileiros - o chat educacional. Observamos que a parentetização constitui-se como uma das regularidades dos processos de elaboração textual. Trata-se, portanto, de uma estratégia de construção textual do chat educacional bastante produtiva.