This thesis investigates the relationship between identity and discourse in a networked collaborative environment in order to explore the following question: <br /> Is the construction of a common identity taking place? <br /><br /> The research question draws on the socio-cultural theory and, in particular, on the view according to which the development of a common identity is an important dimension of learning. More specifically, the thesis builds upon recent criticism attracted by the sociocultural notion of ―Community of Practice‖ for its inadequate account of the relationship between identity, language and practice, both in traditional and computer-mediated settings. The empirical section of the thesis reports a study which applies the concept of recognition work developed by James Gee to the discursive dynamics identified in a ―discussion room‖ of an Italian online community of young psychologists and psychology students. In the study, discourse analysis was carried out on 20 online discussions and on 23 semi-structured interviews. <br /><br /> The findings demonstrate that the notion of recognition work can be used to study how identities are constructed and negotiated through discourse, and provide an additional insight into the role of computer-mediated communication in the relationship between identity and learning. The findings also have theoretical implications, raising the question as to whether the emphasis on communities of practice has exhausted its possible contributions to a socio-cultural theory of learning. Additionally, the thesis also considers the implications for the design of virtual learning environments that try to foster collaborative learning through networked discourse.

The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the media representation of political leaders in the articles published on the Facebook pages and of the form of discussion under the articles creates fairly comprehensive picture of the discourse on the issue of women at the top political positions in the online environment. Although gender does not appear to be one of the most important factors influencing the tone of the analyzed texts, it is possible to identify several tendencies that are related to gender in both articles and comments. Except for positive tone when evaluating political actions and opinions of female politician, which highlighted the stereotypical characteristics of women (patience, compromise, etc.), articles and comments are negative. Other identified forms of media representation of female politicians were usage of images of power and weaknesses (female too strong is associated with negative tone); associating women with emotions (both extremes - absence of emotions and over-emotionality  are associated with negative tone); and using privacy-related topics such as family, fashion, hobbies (a woman who is not interested in these areas, and thus does not fall into the stereotypical image of a woman, is again depicted negatively). Analysis of the comments in the online discussion...

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Propomos, por conseguinte, uma reflexão acerca dos espaços na/da cidade para pensar os espaços gay-friendly, debruçando-nos sobre este significante, recobrando (também) seus sentidos dicionarizados, para, na sequência, adentrarmos em eixos de análise – sobre efeitos de comportamento, de segurança e de consumo – depreendidos de nossos gestos de leitura, dos quais um outro eixo – em relação ao gueto – se desdobra, sempre tendo no horizonte a questão do espaço em como ele é significado pelo discurso jornalístico on-line em duas formações discursivas: uma de matriz neoliberal e conservadora, com a qual se filiam dois portais de notícias on-line, quais sejam, G1 e Terra; e outra de matriz progressista, na qual três outros portais de notícias se filiam, a saber, Carta Capital, Carta Maior e Rede Brasil Atual. Nosso trabalho teórico e metodológico lança mão de uma memória sobre a homossexualidade para compreender efeitos de sentidos em relação ao sujeito homossexual e ao espaço urbano no qual ele é inscrito, uma vez que, de nossa posição teórica, fala-se sempre a partir de uma posição ideológica. Nosso percurso analítico, portanto, trabalha esses efeitos de sentidos, observando suas regularidades e deslocamentos no discurso dos portais de notícias on-line, a fim de compreender como dizer do espaço para o sujeito é dizer também, ao mesmo tempo, do sujeito; um duplo caminho de constituição. Investimos em uma hipótese de que o espaço na/da cidade para os sujeitos homossexuais é capturado, no discurso jornalístico, pela via do mercado, hipótese que se comprova, por meio de nosso investimento analítico, nos modos como aquele espaço urbano é afetado por uma memória de gueto que se desdobra, em sustentações de sentidos, mas também em apagamentos, falhas e rupturas / In this doctoral thesis, affiliated to the theoretical field of French Discourse Analysis, as postulated by Michel Pêcheux in France, and in Brazil by Eni Orlandi, we aim to investigate the discourse on the spaces said as intended for homosexuals in Brazilian online news portals. For the construction of the corpus, we started with the signifier ‘gay-friendly’, which has regularly appeared in online journalistic discourse in relation to homosexual subjects in our contemporaneity. We therefore propose a reflection on the spaces in/of the city to think about gay-friendly spaces, focusing on this signifier, (also) retrieving its meanings found on dictionaries, in order to thus work axes of analysis – on meaning effects of behavior, of safety and of consumption – drawn from our reading gestures, of which another axis – in relation to the ghetto – unfolds, always having on the horizon the matter of space in how it is signified by online journalistic discourse in two discursive formations: one of neoliberal and conservative matrix, with which two online news portals, G1 and Terra, are affiliated; and another of a progressive matrix, in which three other news portals are affiliated, namely, Carta Capital, Carta Maior and Rede Brasil Atual. Our theoretical and methodological work makes use of a memory about homosexuality in order to understand meaning effects in relation to the homosexual subject and to the urban space in which he is associated, since, from our theoretical position, one ever speaks from an ideological position. Therefore, our analytical path works these meaning effects, observing their regularities and movements in the discourse of online news portals, in order to understand how to say of space to the subject is to also say, at the same time, of the subject; a double path of constitution. We hypothesize that the space in/of the city for homosexual subjects is captured in the journalistic discourse by the market, a hypothesis that we proved by our analytical investment, in the ways that urban space is affected by a ghetto memory that unfolds in supports of meanings, but also in erasures, failures and ruptures