The growing communication that takes place between young people today causes concern. The purpose of this study is to develop in – depth knowledge of the interaction that young people engage in online. The pedagogic interest is based on an investigation of conditions for social learning and social integration that exist in practice, which unfolds in virtual spaces created by social media. The technology referred to in this thesis is considered to be a social construction, which entails that values circulate between people, technology, and society. The theoretical point of departure is based on a pedagogic theory, which proposes that people develop their ability to cooperate, their social identity, and their understanding of the world through interaction with others. This dissertation includes three studies. The first study investigates support and harassment online (for example, insults). The second study is conducted for the purpose of revealing the discursive patterns in young people’s argumentation, based on a series of interviews. Finally, a text analysis of Facebook’s policy document was performed, with focus on the democratic values that are mediated via this document. The overall result is that considerably more young people feel that they are supported in social media, than those who are harassed. Both a supportive culture and a harassing culture can be defined however. The more often young people support their friends, the more often they find themselves to be the recipient of support. The same relationship pertains for harassing communication. Reciprocity, respect, and being responsible are dominant themes in a close circle of friends. In interaction with friends who are not members of the close circle of friends, communication is characterised by asymmetry and control. The imposition of discipline takes place as a function of both gender and status. The risk of being subject to reprisals is great, if the prevailing system of norms is violated. Young people’s social interaction in virtual spaces tends to be dominated by marketization where strategic behaviour, which primarily is a function of the individual’s social position and profit interest, is observed.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-10-01T20:14:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PAULO ROBERTO RAMOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2003..pdf: 21868091 bytes, checksum: d17f83a2d24ad1cfd4eb56b9723ebdc7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-01T20:14:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PAULO ROBERTO RAMOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2003..pdf: 21868091 bytes, checksum: d17f83a2d24ad1cfd4eb56b9723ebdc7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-03 / CNPq / Capes / A importância da mídia (mass media) na constituição do imaginário e das práticas sociais tem despertado a atenção de muitos pesquisadores para o estudo do chamado poder simbólico que engendra e, ainda, dos seus desdobramentos na vida cotidiana das populações. Em regra, a mídia tem tratado a problemática ambiental de maneira limitada, ou como preservacionismo de áreas naturais, ou promovendo o ecoturismo, ou assumindo um discurso tecnicista de um conhecimento especialista e distante da vida cotidiana das populações locais. O objetivo central deste trabalho é contribuir com a compreensão dos impactos do discurso midiático na percepção dos riscos dos problemas ambientais. Procuramos observar como tais fenômenos (mídia e degradação ambiental) se intercomunicam para a formação das práticas sociais e discursivas, no estabelecimento do status quo, na formação das hierarquias sociais e das estruturas de poder, que se manifestam numa sociedade com índices crescentes de degradação social e ambiental. Através da análise da programação da TV, principalmente a Rede Globo, e de outros meios de comunicação social de massa, bem como do acompanhamento da vida cotidiana das populações pesquisadas, com o auxilio das técnicas da Observação Participante e da Análise de Discurso, foi possível perceber como ocorre a influência do discurso midiático na formação de uma racionalidade e de uma lógica discursiva que acabam justificando e estimulando os desequilíbrios e desigualdades existentes. Observamos que prevalece na mídia uma lógica pautada nas hierarquias e diferenças sociais e nos processos de degradação ambiental, enquanto aspectos invariáveis e permanentes do desenvolvimento humano. Identificamos a existência de uma contradição formada entre os apelos ecológicos e a institucionalização dos problemas ambientais que se manifestam pulverizados e isolados na mídia, ao mesmo tempo em que ocorre a reprodução da racionalidade e das práticas de degradação ambiental por toda programação, e de diferentes formas na vida cotidiana das populações pesquisadas. / The importance of the media (mass media) in the constitution of the imaginary and of the social practices it has been waking up the many researchers' attention for the srudy of the call to can symbolic that engenders and, still, of your unfoldings in the daily life of the populations. In ruie, the media has agreement the environmental problem in a limited way, or as preservationism of natural áreas, or promoting the echo-tourism, or assuming a speech technicism ofa specialist and distant knovvledge ofthe daily life ofthe local populations. The objective headquarters o!this work is to contribute with the understanding of the impacts of the speech mediatic in the perception of the risks of the environmental problems. We tried to observe as such phenomena (media and environmental degradation) they intercommunicate for the formation of the you practice social and discursive, in the establishment of the status quo, in the formation of the social hierarchies and of the structures of power, that show in a society with growing indexes of social and environmental degradation. Through the analysis of the programming of the TV, mainly the Rede Globo, and of other means of social communication of mass, as well as of the accompaniment of the daily life of the researched populations, with I aid him of the techniques of the Participant Observation and ofthe Analysis of Speech, it was possible to notice how it happens the influence ofthe speech mediatic in the formation of a rationality and of a discursive logic that end up justifying and stimulating the unbalances and existent inequalities. We observed that prevails in the media a ruled logic in the hierarchies and social differences and in the processes of environmental degradation, while invariable and permanent aspects of the human development. We identified the existence of a contradiction formed between the ecological appeals and the institutions of the environmental problems that show powdered and isolated in the media, at the same time in that happens the reproduction of the rationality and of the practices of environmental degradation for ali programming, and in different ways in the daily life of the researched populations.