[pt] A tese trata do estudo de três práticas de leitura coletivas e híbridas da contemporaneidade: as redes sociais, o booktok e o booktube e os Slams. O objetivo principal deste estudo é analisar como jovens e idosos interagem com essas práticas de leitura, observando as diferenças e semelhanças entre esses públicos etários. O método utilizado foi o método da pesquisa qualitativa através de entrevistas semiestruturadas com 40 jovens com idades de 18 a 30 anos e 40 idosos com idades de 60 a 80 anos, ambos os grupos com nível superior completo ou cursando nível superior, moradores do Rio de Janeiro. Essas três práticas de leitura utilizam-se de formatos online e offline, podendo ser realizada uma leitura compartilhada, com possibilidade de trocas e comentários entre os leitores. O virtual e o presencial nas práticas de leitura da contemporaneidade apresentam-se como mais integrados, acumulados, linkados e, por isso, também, emaranhados uns nos outros. Os conteúdos que são lidos continuam sendo diversos, lê-se sobre todos os assuntos, mas o modo de ler contemporâneo recebe nova formas, novas práticas de leitura que se conjugam e aglutinam na contemporaneidade como variadas formas de ler que coexistem. / [en] The thesis deals with the study of three collective and hybrid reading practices of contemporaneity: social networks, booktok and booktube and Slams. The main objective of this study is to analyze how young and old people interact with these reading practices, observing the differences and similarities between these age groups. The method used was the qualitative research method through semi-structured interviews with 40 young people aged between 18 and 30 years and 40 elderly people aged between 60 and 80 years, both groups with complete higher education or attending higher education, residents of Rio de Janeiro. January. These three reading practices use online and offline formats, and a shared reading can be carried out, with the possibility of exchanges and comments between readers. The virtual and the face-to-face in contemporary reading practices are presented as more integrated, accumulated, linked and, therefore, also entangled with each other. The contents that are read continue to be diverse, one reads on all subjects, but the contemporary way of reading receives new forms, new reading practices that are combined and agglutinate in the contemporaneity as different ways of reading that coexist.

Avhandlingen beskriver och analyserar hur frågor kring tillgänglighet/handikapp för första gången aktualiserades och implementerades i planeringen och utformningen av den byggda miljön i Aten, nämligen processen i samband med beslut, planering och implementering av jätteprojektet Atens Metro. Studien tecknar framväxten av olika handikapporganisationer, som från att ha varit svaga aktörer successivt lyckades få gehör för sina krav inom stadens förvaltning, politiska organ, den grekiska riksdagen och inte minst inom de företag som byggde metrosystemet. Avhandlingen diskuterar hur handikapporganisationer och metrosystemet växte fram och påverkade varandra, hur viktiga forum för att diskutera/problematisera olika perspektiv på handikapp skapades där aktörsgrupper med delvis olika intressen förde fram sina ståndpunkter och förhandlade samt vilka konkreta avtryck som dessa processer ledde till i form av en - slutligen - handikappvänlig teknisk konfiguration av metrosystemet. Studien knyter också an till den europeiska diskussionen, bl.a. inom EU, kring handikapp och vilken betydelse som denna diskussion hade för det framväxande metroprojektet, inte minst inför Atens OS-värdskap 2004. Avhandlingen tar sin teoretiska utgångspunkt i dels samhällsvetenskapliga teknik- och vetenskapsstudier, dels "disability studies". / The idea of building a metro network in Athens dates back to the 1950s. It took almost fifty years for the Greek government to develop plans, secure funds and to carry out an effective procurement process for the construction of the Athens metro. In February 1987 the government announced an invitation to tender for the design and construction of the metro. Thirteen years later, in January 2000 the first two lines began operation. The construction of the metro consisted of numerous preliminary studies, different public organizations which dealt with its development and several controversies concerning its design. One of these controversies referred to the issue whether the metro would be accessible to disabled people or not. Integrating accessibility provisions in the metro design constituted a controversial issue where different actors argued and acted for and against its implementation. This study describes and analyses the process of making the metro accessible. The analysis focuses on how questions regarding accessibility/disability were actualized for the first time in the planning and design of the Greek built environment and in particular on the process of building the biggest and most complicated infrastructure project in Greece, the Athens metro. At the same time, the study describes the evolution of disability organizations in Greece: they changed from being weak actors who were unable to influence socio-political configurations to actors that successively gained attention within the public administration, political organs, the Greek Parliament and the company that constructed the metro. The study discusses how disability organizations and the metro were developed and influenced each other and how important forums, where several actors with diverse interests problematized and produced different perspectives on disability, were initiated. These forums constituted public spaces within the public administration and eventually contributed to the construction of an accessible metro network. The analysis is also connected to Athens hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2004 which created increasing demands for constructing an accessible built environment, including the metro. Furthermore, the study also draws upon the discussion within the EU on disability and on which kind of consequences this discussion implied for the developing metro. The theoretical basis for this study is located at the intersection of two broad fields, namely science and technology studies (S&TS) and disability studies.