Narrativas de si em cena: a dramaturgia das interações no Twitter

Abstract

This thesis aimed to study the interaction of the subjects in the social web networks - Twitter, in the specific case of our work - from the analysis of the self-narratives that they post on their profiles. To this end, we established the following specific objectives: the description of the structure of the self-narratives published in hundred segments and forty characters - formal expedient Twitter -; the analysis of the dramaturgical strategies that subjects rely to build their self-narratives on Twitter; and analysis of interactive movement that subjects trigger from a narrative shaped by self-presentation own injunctions Twitter. The theoretical foundation on which we base these goals proceeds from the theoretical situation that we developed to collate the reflections on life stories and self-narratives undertaken by Bruner (2014, 2008), Lejeune (2014), Bertaux (2010), Josso (2012, 2010) Pineau (2006, 2002) and Pineau and LeGrand (2012) with a discussion of the experience of narrative structure presented by Labov (1997) and the dramaturgical perspective of social interactions proposed by Erving Goffman (2013a, 2013b, 2011). The operationalization of the research objectives was through an approach of ethnomethodological features (COULON, 1993), through which we come to a corpus consisting of one hundred ninety-five screenshots, composed of publications in narrative form what we call tweets-origin, collected from the observation of routine a hundred registered Twitter profiles between 7 and 17 December 2014. In light of this methodology, we proceed to the analysis of the performance data that allowed us to reach the following results: the emergence of an interactional parallelism, in which we observed a metonymic irradiation of the self-narratives built by profiles; an investment in narrativizações of everyday topics (work, family, love relationships, interest in sports) and an update of a past that evokes these same themes; a reconfiguration of the structure of the narrative in favor of dramaturgies set in motion on the network, culminating including ways to circumvent the expedient of a hundred and forty characters. These results allow us to conclude that, in the interactive flow, the narratives are validated, progressed and taken so as to suggest a dynamic investment that individuals make in building and maintaining their self-presentation projects. This finding allows us to say, finally, that along the alignment changes regarding the narrative and reinvestment in the narrative, the subjects construct a self-presentation based on a self enthusiastic, ironic and self-deprecating note.