A centralidade da cibercultura na contemporaneidade manifesta-se não apenas na potencialidade dos dispositivos tecnológicos no cotidiano, mas também em sua dimensão social, cultural e epistemológica como formação discursiva. Nesta tese propomos uma análise crítica das narrativas ciberculturais, práticas midiáticas cristalizadas nas tramas convergentes da comunicação, da cultura e da tecnologia na sociedade contemporânea. Tais narrativas são investigadas em seus componentes de articulação discursiva e processos de agenciamento atrelados a representações da técnica, configurando diferentes tipos de narrativas representativas do imaginário da cibercultura, organizadas em torno de complexos exploratórios e ontológicos da narrativa. Tais dimensões técnicas, éticas e estéticas das narrativas ciberculturais promovem geometrias e poéticas diferenciadas, evidenciando um continuum dos diversos modos de narratividade, dando mais ou menos espaço ao interator, permitindo a segmentação de crenças e a cristalização de imaginários. / The centrality of cyberculture nowadays manifests itself not only through the potential of technological devices, but also in its social, cultural and epistemological dimension, as a discursive formation. In this thesis we propose a critical analysis of cibercultural narratives, media practices in converging communication, culture and technology frames in contemporary society. Such narratives are investigated through their discursive components and agency processes linked to certain technical representations that configure different types of narratives representing the imaginary of cyberspace, organized around exploration and ontological narrative complexes. Such technical, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of cibercultural narratives promote different geometries and poetics of these narratives, in a continuum of different modes of narration, giving more or less space to the interactor, allowing targeting of beliefs and the cristalization of imaginaries

Este trabalho se situa na fronteira entre as artes cênicas e a psicologia, particularmente o Construtivismo Semiótico-Cultural em Psicologia. Nosso problema central é compreender como o estudo sobre narrativas alegóricas construídas em espaços intersubjetivos cênicos e a construção desses espaços podem nos auxiliar na proposição de novas estratégias pedagógicas, seja no nível mesmo da sala de aula, seja na esfera da sala de ensaio (teatro). A articulação teórica desenvolvida será apresentada a partir da elaboração de um esquema que contemple aspectos balizadores do surgimento das narrativas: negociações intra e intersubjetivas e a fricção dessas, construção de espaços intersubjetivos, ilusão de apreensão total das intencionalidades e expectativas do outro e pluralidade dos conhecimentos. Esse esquema foi desenvolvido a partir da tentativa de análise de recortes da experiência empírica que originou esta pesquisa. Os trechos analisados, e que sarão apresentados, advieram de duas naturezas de registro: vídeo-gravações das etapas de construção de Dramaturgias Consensuais e anotações no caderno de campo do pesquisador. O Projeto Dramaturgias Consensuais compreende a elaboração de um texto dramatúrgico e de um espetáculo teatral resultante do mesmo, com crianças e adolescentes entre 08 e 14 anos. Chegar ao consenso atua como problematizador da ação interativa-criativa. A articulação entre as artes cênicas e a psicologia surgiu da necessidade de compreender: 1 - como a noção de espaço intersubjetivo e de negociação de sentido da experiência podem nos auxiliar na compreensão dos participantes da pesquisa, ou seja, sujeitos em processo de criação,nos sentidos das proposições de BOESCH, LINELL, MARKOVÀ, ROMMETVEIT, SIMÃO, VALSINER; 2 como a construção de narrativas pessoais, necessárias ao processo criativo, modula a constituição subjetiva; nesse sentido articulamos as considerações de Walter Benjamin sobre narrativa, conhecimento alegórico e instância representacional do sujeito (EU), com recortes das obras dos já citados autores do Construtivismo Semiótico-Cultural em Psicologia, no que concerne ao item 1 / This research work lies on the border between dramatic arts and psychology, particularly the Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology. Our central problem is to understand how the study of allegorical narratives built on intersubjective scenic spaces and the construction of these spaces can help us in the proposition of new teaching strategies, whether in classroom, whether in rehearsal room (theater). The developed theoretical formulation will be presented from the establishment of a scheme that covers guide aspects of the narratives emergence: intra and intersubjective negotiations and their friction, construction of intersubjective spaces, illusion of totally seizing the others intentions and expectations, and knowledge plurality. This scheme was developed from the attempt to analyze an extract of the empirical experience that led to this research. The analyzed excerpts, that will be here presented, derived from two different sources of register: Video-recordings of Consensual Dramaturgies building steps, and the notes on the researcher\'s field diary. The Consensual Dramaturgies Project includes the preparation of a dramaturgical text and a theatrical show, which follows it, with children and adolescents between 08 and 14 years of age. To reach consensus acts as the problematization of the interactive-creative action. The relationship between dramatic arts and psychology came from the need to understand: 1- how the notion of intersubjective space and the negotiation of the experiences meaning can help us understanding the research participants, ie subjects under process of creation, towards the propositions of BOESCH, LINELL, MARKOVÀ, ROMMETVEIT, SIMÃO, VALSINER; 2- how the construction of personal narratives, which are necessary for the creative process, modulates the subjective constitution; in this sense we articulate the considerations by Walter Benjamin on narrative, allegorical knowledge and representational body of the subject (Self), with excerpts from the works of the already mentioned Semiotic-Cultural Construtivism in Psychology, with respect to item 1

Orientador: Fernão Vitor Pessoa de Almeida Ramos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T17:56:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Braz_BeatrizNogueiradeLimaD'Angelo_M.pdf: 1145799 bytes, checksum: 6dfccd626955893285744da67e3fb1bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O presente trabalho propõe um estudo analítico de O Escafandro e a borboleta (Le Scaphandre et le papillont), 2007, de Julian Schnabel, baseado no livro homônimo e autobiográfico de Jean-Dominique Bauby. Esse estudo tem como objetivo analisar a forma com a qual o filme transpõe para o cinema a narrativa de Bauby, ao transformar a voz narrativa em primeira pessoa no olhar-câmera, que conduz o filme. Busca-se, assim, refletir sobre o ponto de vista no cinema, em especial sobre o plano ponto-de-vista, como forma de materializar em imagem o monólogo subjetivo e o confinamento que caracterizam as memórias de Bauby / Abstract: This piece aims to study and analyze the film adaptation of The Diving bell and the butterfly, 2007, directed by Julian Schnabel. Moreover, it intends to analyze how the film turns the narrative of Jean-Dominique Bauby¿s book into film by transforming the first person - the literary I in the book - into the camera, making the framing play a key role in the adaptation process. We seek to discuss and analyze point of view in the cinema, shedding light to the point of view shot, and how it made it possible to turn the subjective monologue and the sense of confinement that characterize Bauby¿s memoir into film / Mestrado / Multimeios / Mestra em Multimeios

Orientador: Maria do Carmo Martins / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T20:05:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_PriscilaRibeiro_D.pdf: 10758070 bytes, checksum: af7955e6d986b58e809c770fdabf7627 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O presente trabalho foi realizado numa escola prisional feminina no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, buscando por meio das memórias escolares escritas pelas presas e, algumas atividades expressivas da escola, como os murais produzidos por elas no ano de 2012, compreender os sentidos da escolarização bem como outras questões relacionadas à aprendizagem. Inspirada nos trabalhos de Ivor Goodson (2007; 2011), passei a refletir que para ocorrer mudanças no campo da aprendizagem era importante a vinculação dos conteúdos da aprendizagem a uma possibilidade de mudança significativa na vida das presas, não sendo suficiente apenas escrever novas prescrições ou matrizes curriculares. Buscando aprofundar o assunto, o estudo procurou assentar-se na metodologia da pedagogia narrativa, na tentativa de compreender os sentidos e significados produzidos na experiência escolar. Dessa forma passou a ser importante compreender o processo de escolarização como fortalecimento da autonomia do sujeito, no sentido de empoderamento, de maneira que a aprendizagem resultasse em um fortalecimento de si mesmo. / Abstract: This study was conducted in a school female prison in the state of Rio de Janeiro, seeking through school memories written by prey and some expressive activities of the school, such as the murals produced by them in the year 2012, to understand the meanings of schooling and other issues related to learning. Inspired by the work of Ivor Goodson (2007, 2011), I began to reflect that changes occur in the field of learning was important to link the content of learning a possibility of significant change in the lives of prisoners, it is not enough just to write new prescriptions or curricular. Seeking to deepen the subject, the study sought to rely on the methodology of narrative pedagogy in an attempt to understand the meanings produced in the school experience. Thus became important to understand the process of schooling as strengthening the autonomy of the subject, in the sense of empowerment, so that learning resulted in a strengthening of himself. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutora em Educação

In my dissertation, I use multi-ethnographic methods to examine how mediators talk about, manage, and process families going through divorce. I show how a dominant narrative about marriage and the cultural expectations of parenthood provide a framework for mediators to manage the discourse of divorcing parties so assets and care giving can be split 50/50. The dominant P.E.A.C.E. narrative (P=parenting plan, E=equitable distribution, A=alimony, C=child support, E=everything else) restricts available discourse in mediation and guides mediators’ behaviors in ways that homogenize families by providing a linear formula for mediators to follow which results in only certain stories being allowed to enter the mediation. Next, I show how constructions about power and violence serve to frame and shape understandings of divorce for mediators, thereby guiding their actions in mediation and discursively impacting the discourses of mediated parties. Power and violence are constructed in ways that conflate the concepts, and no clear protocol is offered to manage these complicated concerns for family law mediators. The outcome is mediators report being unsure and often fearful about mediating cases where intimate partner violence is a concern. Finally, an analytic autoethnographic examination of family law mediation provides an example of the power of ideology and makes clear my positionality within this dissertation. I explore my own identity as a white, heterosexual, female, in a world ripe with expectations about marriage and family creation as I encounter alternative messages and information in my fieldwork. Throughout my dissertation, I uncover larger cultural narratives about marriage, and families that guide and manage people, illustrating the ways identities, stories of violence, and the ideology of marriage are shaped.

Cette recherche investigue d’un point de vue clinique le processus d’adhésion à la religion protestante évangélique (plus spécialement sa version pentecôtiste). En France, ce fait religieux gagne de l’ampleur et se développe depuis peu chez des populations issues de la migration. Historiquement, l’évangélisme s’installe dans des milieux défavorisés socialement et se montre assez polymorphique, s’adaptant aux singularités culturelles et subjectives des groupes. C’est un phénomène transculturel qui s’appuie sur des notions chrétiennes comme la conversion et les dons du Saint-Esprit (glossolalie, prophétie, guérison avec les mains, etc.). Afin d’étudier le travail psychique impliqué, nous avons discuté avec les sciences sociales, lesquelles s’inquiètent dès leur fondation des phénomènes religieux et de leurs composants psychologiques. L’exploration de la bibliographie sur la réforme protestante et l’évangélisme nous signale l’importance de la conversion, les formules « naître de nouveau » ou « devenir une autre personne » étant souvent répétées par les évangéliques. Cette conversion est envisagée par nous comme une technique religieuse de re-création biographique. Suivant notre disposition clinique psychanalytique, les problématiques dessinées s’accompagnent de lectures de la psychopathologie et de la psychanalyse sur la religion et la religiosité : le jalon fondamental étant que l’objet religieux s’ancre dans les fondations de la vie psychique. À partir d’entretiens cliniques avec des sujets convertis (certains ayant fait recours à des soins psychosociaux), nous explorons leur activité discursive et narrative avec les théories et méthodes issues de la narrativité et de la phénoménologie herméneutique. Nous concluons sur la pertinence de penser à une psychopathologie du fait religieux : il s’agit d’une disposition éthique et épistémologique du clinicien et du besoin d’hospitalité de cet objet religieux, ceci étant présent dans le pathos et dans le travail de chaque sujet sur soi dans le langage. / This research investigates, from a clinical perspective, the processes of adhesion to evangelical Protestant religions (that of Pentecostal Christians in particular). In France, this religious fact is growing and developing among immigrant populations. Historically, Evangelicalism installs itself in socially disadvantaged backgrounds and shows the polymorphic and adaptive capacity to espouse cultural singularities and accord itself to the subjectivity processes of different groups. It’s a transcultural phenomenon that relies on Christian notions such as conversion and gifts of the Holy Spirit (glossolalia, prophecy, cure with the hands, etc.). In order to study the psychic work involved in adhesion to evangelical Protestantism, we first consider the social sciences, which since their foundation have explored religious phenomenon and their psychological components. The bibliographical exploration about the Protestant Reformation and Evangelism underlines the importance of conversion, to which expressions such as “born again” or “become another person” are frequently repeated by evangelicals. We consider conversion as a religious technique of biographical re-creation. Then, from a psychodynamic (psychoanalytical) standpoint, we review psychopathology and psychoanalytic literature in their views of religion and religiosity: the fundamental milestone is that the religious object is anchored in the foundations of the psychic life. We have interviewed converted persons (some of them had been treated by psychosocial professionals) so as to analyze their narratives and discursive activities with methods and theories from hermeneutic phenomenology and narrative psychology. We conclude our discussion by addressing the relevance of reflecting about the psychopathology of the religious fact, which we identify as an ethical and epistemological disposition for the clinician. Concurrently, this research suggests a need for more hospitality towards this religious object, which is present in the pathos and in the psychic work of the construction of the “self” in language.

West African Journal: A Travel Account is a narrative of the author's trip in twelve West African countries. In the first chapter the author describes her previous travels and preparations for this trip and introduces her husband. She begins the second chapter with a discussion of the benefits and hardships of independent travel and describes the hotels, restaurants, forms of transportation, and difficulties with language. The remainder of Chapter II is a close account of the first sixteen days of travel. The narrative continues chronologically in Chapters III through VIII. Each chapter pertains to a distinct stage of the trip. In Chapter IX, the author reviews her personal accomplishments during the journey, relates her and her husband's reactions on their return to the U.S., and concludes with some evocative descriptions of West Africa.

The overall aim of the five studies that make up this thesis is to elucidate constructions of being old from the perspectives of gender and ethnicity. One of the studies uses quantitative data and four use qualitative data. The sample in study I consisted of 125 participants from the Umeå 85+ study, aged 85 to 103 years old, who were able to use Likert scales in responding to questions. Studies II and III involved content analysis of interviews with old persons scoring on the extremes of the resilience scale. In study IV, interviews with nine Sami women were analysed using grounded theory. In study V, four interview situations were subjected to discourse analysis. Study I showed statistically significant correlations between the scales measuring resilience, sense of coherence, purpose in life and self-transcendence. These scales were supposed to measuring a common dimension, which is here interpreted as “inner strength”. There was a significant correlation between women’s “inner strength” and perceived mental health. The femininities found were associated with “being connected”, “being an actor”, “living in the shadow of others” and “being alienated”. The masculinities found were associated with “being in the male centre”, “striving to maintain the male facade” and “being related”. The femininity associated with “being an actor” and the masculinity associated with “being in the male centre” were pronounced in those participants assessed as having high resilience. Old Sami woman were found to be balancing within various discourses, including being a reindeer owner versus not owning reindeer, being Sami versus being Swedish, speaking in Sami versus speaking in Swedish, dreaming about the past versus looking to the future, being equal to men versus living in the shadow of the male herders, and changing for survival versus striving to retain uniqueness as a Sami. Study V revealed that shifts in power between the interviewer and the interviewed can be related to the discourses of age, gender, education, body, ethnicity and ideology. This thesis presents a complex picture of what it means to be among the oldest old. The ageing, gendered and ethicised selves cannot be seen as socially and culturally fixed. For the women, the femininity expressed in “being connected” involved being satisfied, content and having positive relationships. “Being an actor” involved a stress on the person’s own strength and own choices. The femininities experienced as “living in the shadow of others” and “being alienated” generated narratives about dissociation and loneliness. For the men, it seemed important to relate to themselves and to other men. However, the masculinity expressed in “being related” involved an alternative form of masculinity, focusing on the importance of daily work, new relationships, and reflecting on the meaning of life. The Sami women showed strength in being able to position themselves between various discourses, but their narratives also showed tender sadness when they spoke of their longing for the past and for their mother tongue. The reflection on how narratives are constructed by both the interviewed and the interviewer in relation to their access to various discourses of age, gender, education, ethnicity and ideology in different interview situations can be important for increasing awareness of the role of these discourses. Various ways of constructing femininities and masculinities must be studied if we are to avoid ageism developing in society. Analyzing and reflecting on the importance of age, gender and ethnicity from a constructivist perspective may reduce stereotypical descriptions of the oldest old.

For those living in resource rich countries such as Canada a positive HIV diagnosis no longer means an imminent death. In response to this change, numerous treatment and therapeutic institutions have arisen to assist individuals with managing their illness. Illness narratives then, the stories people tell and retell about their illness experience, are constructed by and within this multiplicity of medical frameworks that can interact in ways that are both complimentary and contradictory. Drawing on ethnographic data obtained through two months of participant observation and seven in-depth interviews at an HIV/AIDS treatment facility in Vancouver, British Columbia I discuss how illness narratives reveal the presence of and an orientation towards the powerful discourses of medicine. Some of the frameworks evident in the narratives I examine include biomedical understandings of health and disease, support group dialogues on self-empowerment, tenets of complementary and alternative medicines, clinical models of low-threshold access to health care, notions of health services as a human right, and addiction treatment concepts. In order to afford a place for the institutional discourses of medicine in my analysis, the subjective experience of illness is contextualized with reference to it’s situatedness amongst the myriad of other voices that both construct and constrain narrative production. Ultimately, I seek to demonstrate how the incorporation of disparate institutional voices into a subjective story of illness reflects the development of a unique orientation to the institutions of medicine an understanding that I conceptualize as medical consciousness. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.