http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/19683 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:02:28 GMT 2026-04-16T22:02:28Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85894 Título: Letramento digital de estudantes da Guiné-Bissau: o caso do uso das tecnologias digitais no projeto Unilab Autor(es): Infau, Laurindo Leite Abstract: The overall objective of the dissertation was to investigate which digital technologies have been used in secondary schools in Guinea-Bissau over the last ten years, through the application of questionnaires to Guinean students who came to study for a degree at UNILAB. Since 2010, the country's Basic Education System Law has emphasised the importance of using information technology and other technologies as important resources in the Guinean teaching process. The study covers two areas of knowledge, Communication and Education. To address Educommunication in particular, we refer to the classics by Freire (1983; 1996). In the field of Communication, we draw primarily on the studies of Braga (2011) and Martino (2019). In the field of Education, we draw on the studies of Soares (2004); Cury (2010); Kleiman (2010); Oliveira (2010) and Santos and Zúcula (2025). In the area of social transformation and ethical responsibility for the use of digital technologies, we draw on the studies of Hans Jonas (2006) and Lira (2018). In the context of methodology, we rely on the studies of Maldonado et al. (2024); Minayo (2007) and Bardin (1977). Methodologically, this is a qualitative case study. Questionnaires were administered to eleven Guinean students who had recently arrived at UNILAB, between the first and fourth semesters, and who had completed secondary education in Guinea-Bissau schools. The questionnaires were administered between 5 and 18 January 2026. Content analysis was used to analyse the data. After analysing the data, it was concluded that digital literacy is not yet a reality in secondary schools in Guinea-Bissau, despite the country's main education law stating that computer and technological equipment are important teaching resources for the teaching-learning process in the country. The eleven participants in the study reported that they experienced (and some still experience) difficulties with the use of digital technologies at university. They recommended the introduction of computer science in secondary schools in Guinea-Bissau to minimise problems for students in higher education, where they will have to engage with the use of different digital technologies. Tipo: Dissertação Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85894 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85850 Título: O valor e o custo das métricas: uma análise sobre o jornalismo econômico plataformizado em O Globo e UOL na cobertura do caso Pix (Brasil, 2025) Autor(es): Santos, Bruna Bezerra Damasceno Abstract: This research investigates the impact of metricization on the form of journalistic content produced by the portals O Globo and UOL, focusing on the business desk regarding the 'Pix Case,' which permeated Brazilian news at key moments throughout 2025. It starts from the premise that the logic of platformization reconfigures newsworthiness criteria, news values, and contemporary content. The methodology adopted was a multiple case study with content analysis of 29 articles about the Pix Case, starting in January 2025. The episode arose from a misinterpreted tax regulation regarding the transfer of banking data to the Federal Revenue Service, generating a wave of misinformation about the alleged taxation of the service. This scenario was exacerbated by the repercussion of a video by Congressman Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG), which reached approximately 200 million views, increasing the metric pressure on the coverage. The analysis sought to understand how the mainstream media adapts the angles and depth of its economic content to serve the urgency of metrics and distribution dynamics. Thus, five categories were systematized: 1) search engine optimization (SEO) and engagement; 2) dilatable criteria and news repackaging; 3) depth differences between metric-driven content; 4) the impact of AI-generated summaries; and 5) sensationalism. The results of this thesis indicate that metricization did not cause a rupture in Brazilian business journalism, but rather intensified a rationality already financialized and dominated by neoliberal discourse. While since the 1980s the market economist has been consolidated as an interpretive lens, in the platformized context, these mediations are now also reorganized by digital metrics. In the Pix Case, production was accelerated by mechanisms that weaken the social function of business journalism. Tipo: Dissertação Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85850 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85461 Título: Maternidades conectadas: interações sociais e práticas de consumo em grupo de mães no WhatsApp Autor(es): Aragão, Fernanda Bôto Paz Abstract: This study aimed to understand how female interactive dynamics and consumption practices unfold within an online maternal group and how they articulate with cultural values of motherhood. To this end, we conducted an online ethnography in a maternal WhatsApp group over one year and three months, combining participant observation with interviews with group members and the administrator. The theoretical discussion sought to identify and interpret socially constructed maternal symbolisms, (re)produced through media and articulated with sociocultural, economic, political, and sociotechnical contexts. In this scenario, the proliferation of maternal voices on the internet emerges as a catalyst for questioning women’s own participation in shaping cultural values of motherhood. We also discuss transformations in maternal communities resulting from technological and cultural shifts, considering the culture of technology use and a contemporary turn driven, above all, by the platformization of everyday life. As a cross cutting theme in the research locus, consumption in motherhood is elucidated as a process with multiple stages that occur before, after, and even independently of the act of buying, extending to use, disposal, and the resignification of products and services. We examine the production and circulation of meanings attributed to goods and services aimed at mothers, and we identify an online circuit of social interaction and maternal consumption. To describe and interpret the ethnographic records, we present the features and modes of maternal interactive dynamics in the WhatsApp mothers’ group, followed by a discussion of women’s subjectivities related to motherhood, connections with other women, and consumption practices as perceived in the online community. Field immersion revealed updated forms of maternal aggregation in which care experiences and consumption intertwine and are shared by female associations that appear to be established exclusively online. The community studied functions as a haven to validate the “truthfulness” of information about motherhood circulating in the media; to foster belonging; to alleviate loneliness; to learn; and even to develop authority through the combination of knowledge from the mothers’ own perspectives. Finally, the cultural values of motherhood observed in the group are in transformation, moving between continuities and updates in how women experience motherhood. At times challenging certain patriarchal cultural values, at times reinforcing patterns of domination directed at women, thus assuming a range of symbolic possibilities whose reduction to extremes would be inadequate. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85461 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85394 Título: Ficção científica como procedimento de resposta à cisnorma: terranos, alienígenas e seres ctônicos Autor(es): Prado, Noá Araújo Abstract: This doctoral thesis investigates science fiction as a proce- dure of response to cisnormativity, colonialism, and dominant ontoepistemic rationali- ties, through the creation of alien and chthonic beings that operate as agents of thought and writing. Among them, the terranos— subterranean and symbiotic entities—are acti- vated as speculative operators capable of intervening in modes of existence and regimes of representation. From their presence, the research proposes an embodied, fabulatory, and contaminated form of writing that does not illustrate concepts but thinks with cha- racters, through non-normative bodies and languages that destabilize the boundaries between theory and fiction. The methodology employed is deliberately alien: a writing protocol that blends essay, fiction, manifesto, and screenplay, refusing the traditional academic linearity. It is a practice of thought embodied in voices, images, and deviant narratives, in which writing itself becomes a body in transmutation. In this context, ali- ens do not appear as figures exterior to the human, but as poetic technologies that re- configure the very notions of reality, time, language, and identity. The thesis engages with authors such as Donna Haraway, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Castiel Vitorino Brasi- leiro, and Jota Mombaça, activating their thought not as citation, but as contagion. More than representing or explaining the world, this research experiments with ways of writing it from within its cracks, openings, and multiplicities—affirming delirium as me- thod, the body as language, and fiction as a tool for the creation of inhabitable worlds. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85394 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z