Esta dissertação investigou como a rua é construída narrativamente na seção Brasiliana de CartaCapital. A pesquisa parte do pressuposto de que a narrativa jornalística é uma das formas de experimentação da realidade e de mediação com o mundo, perspectiva vinculada ao paradigma construcionista, que tem no jornalismo uma instância de construção social da realidade devido à forma como seu discurso foi historicamente institucionalizado. Além disso, considera a cidade como um texto, composto por outros menores, que pode ser lido e tecido por seus habitantes. O jornalismo é um dos mediadores do conhecimento sobre a cidade quando articula esses textos. Brasiliana oferece narrativas produzidas sobre diferentes pontos do Brasil, algumas vezes do exterior, mas com predominância de relatos ancorados na cidade de São Paulo. Fizemos uma análise flutuante de 742 textos produzidos semanalmente entre 2001 e 2016 para chegarmos ao recorte de 11 narrativas sobre ruas e, assim, tecermos considerações sobre as inter-relações entre jornalismo e cidade. O estudo objetivou responder sobre os percursos na rua traçados pelo jornalista-narrador, as personagens e os conflitos que compõem as narrativas e as estratégias de figuração adotadas pelo jornalista-narrador, de forma a vislumbrar a construção narrativa da rua na seção. Utilizamos o método de análise da narrativa como proposto por Motta (2013) para estudos em jornalismo, ancorado nas teorias narrativas de Ricoeur (1994), Genette (1995) e Culler (1999). Nessas narrativas jornalísticas, revelaram-se ruas polifônicas, locais onde diferentes vozes sociais interagem, do que resultam conflitos socioeconômicos e religiosos – vias que acabam por refletir a condição da cidade como um espaço produtor de diferenças. Os resultados indicam que, pela presença de um jornalista-narrador que percorre ruas, encontra personagens e é capaz de descrever os espaços onde os habitantes se relacionam e as cenas que expõem seus conflitos, as Brasilianas são um exemplo de fazer jornalístico mais plural sobre a cidade. / This dissertation investigated how the street is narratively constructed in the CartaCapital’s section named Brasiliana. The research starts from the assumption that the journalistic narrative is one of the forms of experimentation of the reality and of mediation with the world, perspective linked to the constructionist paradigm, that has in journalism an instance of social construction of reality due to the way in which its discourse was historically institutionalized. In addition, it considers the city as a text, composed of smaller ones, that can be read and woven by its inhabitants. Journalism is one of the mediators of the knowledge about the city when it articulates these texts. Brasiliana offers narratives produced on different points in Brazil, sometimes from abroad, but with predominantly anchored reports in the city of São Paulo. We did a floating analysis of 742 texts produced weekly between 2001 and 2016 to get to the cut of 11 narratives about streets and, thus, to make considerations about the interrelations between journalism and city. The objective of this study was to answer the narrator-journalist's path in the street, the characters and the conflicts that make up the narratives and the strategies of figuration adopted by the narrator-journalist, in order to glimpse the narrative construction of the street in the section. We have used the method of narrative analysis as proposed by Motta (2013) for studies in journalism, anchored in the narrative theories of Ricoeur (1994), Genette (1995) and Culler (1999). In these journalistic narratives, polyphonic streets were revealed, where different social voices interact, resulting in socio-economic and religious conflicts – streets that reflect the condition of the city as a space that produces diferences. The results indicates that, because of the presence of a narrator-journalist who walks the streets, finds characters and is able to describe the spaces where the inhabitants relate and the scenes that expose their conflicts, the Brasilianas are an example of making a journalism more plural about the city.

In this thesis, I explore the meanings and experience of health and well-being in the lives of individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Taking an auto/biographical approach and utilising in-depth qualitative online interviews, I draw on the experience and narratives of seventeen individuals with IBD, including myself. The three main themes addressed are 'Living with IBD', 'Becoming a Patient', and 'Coping and Control'. I explore how IBD influences individuals' experience of personal relationships, and their medical encounters and treatments. I reflect on how and why these factors arise and the effect they may have upon the disease and its management and on individuals' feelings of well-being more generally. I look at the resulting illness narratives and the impact of IBD on the daily life experience and the identity of the individual. I interrogate existing research and add to it from my analysis. Throughout, the research highlights the importance of acknowledging the impact of biographical disruption on the life experience and identity of individuals along with changing illness narratives. There are implications for future research and for policy, including the time taken to reach diagnosis, the use of IBD guidelines in diagnosis and treatment, and patient control and choice as a contributing factor to influence future guidelines and treatment plans.

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

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paulo Rogério Santos e Silva - 2016.pdf: 10807920 bytes, checksum: 0e35204c30fb9895bcd44f5dc7182ff4 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-04 / The toy library emerged in the middle of the last century since then we could see its expansion around the world. However, its understanding appears to be a complex task because these spaces receive direct influence of society and its cultures that leave them their specificity both the public and the direction that attends as on its goals by having a variety of readings and thoughts that is produced. In Brazil, Toy libraries have been established as educational and recreational spaces and universities have created representatives in the highest category of university toy libraries. This thesis socializes the course and results of a research that the observation of this scenario took as its object of the Federal University of Goiás`toy library - Catalão regional aiming a better understanding of this space. The theoretical research support was given by a field which brought together the accumulated production of the object in the work of authors such as Santos (1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2008), Silva (2000), Kishimoto (1997, 1998, 2011), Brougère (1995, 1996, 2002, 2004) e Cunha (1997, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2014), such the contributions about Lefebvre (2006) about space, production , reproduction and analysis, Certeau (1994 ) for analysis of the object in the daily prism and others like Leite (1998) and Kossoy (1989 , 1999, 2001 , 2002) that uses photographs as support. Regarding the methodology for the admission of a look and a typical sensitive listening to the narratives it was structured from the realization of a field research that used two data collection tools. The first , a documentary research in the archives of Ludoteca UFG/RC (for project access, regulations and organizational routines and data as frequency and public) and the photographic collection of the researcher (ex librarian) for selection of photographs for the years 2011 -2013 . The second, performing scripted interviews with two guys working in the toy library: two (2) toy librarians and the coordinator. In addition it was also accessed over the entire search the memory of the researcher. The data were treated following the guidelines of the Bardin (1977) content analysis adding the use of software for analyzing qualitative data. The results allow us to point out that Ludoteca UFG/RC is understood as space traversed by numerous looks and conceptions of the world, of childhood, of playfulness posing in their daily lives both reproductive behavior/transmissive culture as the offender aspect of the production of new way not only for those elements but also to the training itself, to research, to the extent that they are proper elements of the university. / O surgimento das Ludotecas ocorreu na primeira metade do século passado e desde então assistimos sua expansão por várias partes do mundo. Entretanto, sua compreensão mostra-se tarefa complexa pois estes espaços recebem influência direta da sociedade e suas culturas que deixam nelas suas especificidades tanto no direcionamento do público que a frequenta quanto em seus objetivos fazendo com que uma variedade de leituras seja produzida. No Brasil as Ludotecas têm se consolidado como espaços educativos e lúdicos e as universidades paulatinamente criam suas representantes na categoria maior das ludotecas universitárias. A presente dissertação socializa percurso e resultados de uma pesquisa que na observação desse cenário assumiu como objeto a Ludoteca da Universidade Federal de Goiás - Regional Catalão tendo como objetivo uma maior compreensão deste espaço. A sustentação teórica da pesquisa foi dada por um campo que congregou a produção acumulada sobre o objeto nos trabalhos de autores como Santos (1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2008), Silva (2000), Kishimoto (1997, 1998, 2011 ), Brougère (1995, 1996, 2002, 2004) e Cunha (1997, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2014), as contribuições de Lefebvre (2006) sobre o espaço, sua produção-reprodução e análise, de Certeau (1994) para análise do objeto no prisma do cotidiano e outros como Leite (1998) e Kossoy (1989, 1999, 2001, 2002) que amparou a utilização das fotografias. Em relação a metodologia, pela admissão de um olhar e de uma escuta sensível típicos das narrativas ela se estruturou a partir da realização de uma pesquisa de campo que utilizou duas ferramentas de coleta de dados. A primeira, uma pesquisa documental nos arquivos da Ludoteca UFG\RC (para acesso do projeto, do regimento e das rotinas organizacionais e dados como frequência e público) e no acervo fotográfico do pesquisador (ex ludotecário) para seleção de fotografias referentes aos anos de 2011 a 2013. A segunda, a realização de entrevistas roteirizadas com dois sujeitos que atuam na Ludoteca: dois (2) ludotecários e a coordenadora. Além disso foi acessada também ao longo de toda a pesquisa a memória do próprio pesquisador. Os dados receberam tratamento seguindo as orientações da análise de conteúdo de Bardin (1977) adida da utilização de software para análise de dados qualitativos. Os resultados nos permitem apontar que a Ludoteca UFG\RC é compreendida como espaço atravessado por inúmeros olhares e concepções de mundo, de infância, de ludicidade que colocam em sua cotidianidade tanto o aspecto reprodutivo/transmissivo da cultura quanto o aspecto transgressor da produção de novos sentidos não apenas para aqueles elementos mas também para a própria formação, para a pesquisa, para a extensão que são elementos próprios da universidade.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2014-08-11T16:02:06Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) dissertacaoalinesardeiro (1).pdf: 372462 bytes, checksum: 673009d27e75b0683c2bbc26785c0a4c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-11T16:02:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) dissertacaoalinesardeiro (1).pdf: 372462 bytes, checksum: 673009d27e75b0683c2bbc26785c0a4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / This work is linked to the line of research and Professional Teacher Training and has as object of study the narratives of children on the children, about their lives in the world of adults. Is based on theoretical studies of Cultural History with Chartier (1990), Melo (2007), Ariès (1981), Burke (1992), in a constant dialogue, saved the appropriate differences, with Bakhtin (1992), Vygotsky (1998), Brait (2005), among others. In this study the qualitative perspective, interviews with children are made to a municipal school of Goiânia - Goiás and used as criteria for selection of children, age, length of stay in school and the same amount of boys and girls. The research investigates how the child understands and narrates his vision of the adult world on it, trying to show that the child is able to speak to this from experience, recovering well, memories and representations made in this period of life, a certain socio-cultural space. / O presente trabalho está vinculado à linha de pesquisa Formação e Profissionalização Docente e tem como objeto de estudo as narrativas de crianças sobre a infância, sobre as suas vidas em relação ao mundo do adulto. Tem como base teórica os estudos da História Cultural com Chartier (1990), Melo (2007), Ariès (1981), Burke (1992), numa interlocução constante , guardadas as devidas diferenças, com Bakhtin (1992), Vygotsky (1998), Brait (2005), dentre outros. Nesse estudo de perspectiva qualitativa, são feitas entrevistas com crianças de uma escola municipal de Goiânia - Goiás e utilizados como critérios de seleção das crianças, a idade, o tempo de permanência na escola e a mesma quantidade de meninos e meninas. A pesquisa investiga como a criança percebe e narra sua visão do mundo do adulto em relação a ela, procurando mostrar que a criança é capaz de falar do presente a partir de experiências vividas, resgatando assim, memórias e representações construídas nesse período de vida, num espaço sócio-cultural determinado.

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

This dissertation has examined the narrative genre of tanci in late imperial China while keeping a close eye on the theme of women's self-empowerment. I have analyzed three voluminous tanci works, Destiny of Rebirth; Dream, Image, Destiny; and A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men, respectively published in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. I have proposed that these tanci works, by depicting women's crossdressing, self-portraits, and homoerotic sensitivities, presented a transgressive potential to disrupt dominant social and cultural discourses of womanhood in late imperial China. Particularly, tanci works present women who leave their cloistered lives and travel while crossdressed as men. These women are the very opposite of the Confucian feminine ideal (the filial, chaste, and obedient woman who follows the prescribed codes required of a daughter, wife, and widow). Writing such challenging stories was itself a transgressive act for late imperial women authors, whose literary practices were under strict social regulation in the patriarchal society. For women readers of the time and for those of the contemporary period, reading these stories was and is an empowering experience. By identifying with the heroic protagonists, historical and contemporary readers alike may be inspired to envision a life of autonomy and freedom outside the domestic space. Tanci works, I propose, validate women in their immediate historical and cultural landscapes and project rich possibilities for women to reform social reality. The historical task of contemporary readers of tanci is therefore three-fold: to retrieve the voices of earlier authors from obscurity, to empower themselves with the help of these voices, and to integrate the predecessors' insights into a vision of new possibilities of social change.

Due to its cheap, pervasive, and disposable nature, post-consumer plastic has no subjectivity in its relation to the consumer. My thesis project examines the material’s inherent destructive narrative and question its ability to have extrinsic value beyond the assumptions of trash. In my research, I found that humans instinctually seek to conserve and treat biotic material with care. This fact has become a catalyst for the works in this project, which aim to not only increase the material’s value through animate biomorphic transformation, but also counter our disposable tendencies. At the onset of this project, I was fixated solely on the physical potential of plastic, but in researching cultural narratives, I became more aware of the social significance that post-disposal plastic material holds. Artistic works by Mark Bradford and El Anatsui helped me understand the potential for re-inscribing new meaning into materials that have had a prior existence, and the art of Lynda Benglis and Tim Hawkinson inspired my technical application. From there, I applied the aesthetics of biomorphism, which resulted in a culminating piece that utilizes melted and deformed bubble wrap to evoke reptilian skin or a micro-biotic cell community.

This dissertation explored the lives of women with disabilities who have to suffer more than men with disabilities despite prevailing disability policies in Nepal that emphasize nondiscrimination against people with disabilities. The study explored the idea that there are policy gaps between disability policies and the narratives of women with disabilities. This dissertation used critical sexual theory and postcolonialism as critical frameworks and narrative analysis as a method to analyze the disability policies and narratives of women with disabilities to explore policy gaps and the need for supportive gender policies. The researcher analyzed the literary works of five female Nepali authors with disabilities: Radhika Dahal, Jhamak Ghimire, Sabitri Karki, Parijaat, and Mira Sahi, in Nepal. With the support of NVivo qualitative research software, and the use of the frameworks and methodology, the researcher discovered the policy gaps and underscored the need for supportive gender policies to address the emotional and psychological needs of women with disabilities. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Armed, illegal non-state actors control small but important sectors of both Brazil and Colombia. In these two countries, traffickers and large gangs concentrated in urban (and, in Colombia's case, also rural) areas clash heavily with state security forces, dominate significant numbers of the urban poor, and play a large, threatening role in the public's imagination. Some vital research has been done on the political and sociological dynamics within the zones controlled by these actors, but there is less in the literature that deals with the specific activities of community media and their relations with the ruling gangs and with local residents. This dissertation focuses on two community media groups, one in Bogotá, and one in Rio de Janeiro, both of which operate in informal urban slums controlled by gangs. It argues that in both cases these groups provide some checks to manifestations of authoritarian aggression, the infliction of arbitrary violence on residents and the climate of fear promulgated by the armed actors in these communities. These community media groups are able to do this by capitalizing on community resistance, by building informal relations and networks with gang membership, and by mobilizing notions of political legitimacy. / acase@tulane.edu