Banca de DEFESA: JOSEILDA SAMPAIO DE SOUZA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : JOSEILDA SAMPAIO DE SOUZA
DATA : 18/02/2019
HORA: 13:30
LOCAL: Auditório I Faced
TÍTULO:

PLAY IN TIMES OF MOBILE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

digital culture, play, research with child, children's cultures

PÁGINAS: 471
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Ensino-Aprendizagem
ESPECIALIDADE: Tecnologia Educacional
RESUMO:

The contemporary society is marked by a series of characteristics that permeate it, among
which we highlight the fascination for mobile digital technologies and the experience in the
digital culture that provide openings of new spaces of communication, socialization and
playful practices. At this juncture, children, through playing with mobile digital technologies,
have found alternatives to playful practices in a coexistence with different experiences: they
have expressed their ways of symbolizing the world, building knowledge, establishing social
bonds and producing new social and cultural activities. It is in this context that this research
aimed to understand, from the act of playing, how the interaction of children (in the age group
of four and five years) with mobile digital technologies - smartphone and tablet - contribute
to structuring the production processes of contemporary infant cultures. As the main
theoretical foundation that guided our discussions, we adopted the Childhood Studies, carried
out in the field of Sociology of Childhood. We seek to construct a research posture that puts in
discussion the social place occupied by researchers and children in the socialized production
of knowledge. Through participant observation, we develop our methodological strategies
based on research with children and ethnographic research, in which we recognize them as
protagonists and co-participants in the research process, taking into account their speeches
and representations of the world and the place which they occupy as actors / social authors
capable of speaking for themselves and about themselves as research data. During five
months, we interacted with children who are part of our personal friendship network,
attending weekly meetings in the private / family space. In playing activities, we had a
dialogue with two groups of participants, both formed by a child and its partners: the fouryear-
old child interacting and playing with the mobile devices along with his father, mother
and grandmothers; and the five-year-old child, who interacted with its 11-year-old sister and
their neighbors (four to nine years old) living in the same condominium. As we get in the
children's play, we highlight four aspects of digital culture that have become more present and
have been perceived as structuring for the production processes of children's cultures: (i) the
expansion of materials produced about the children's icons that integrate their cultural
symbolic elements; (ii) the relations between the various narratives that integrate the
children's cultural symbolic elements; (iii) the experience in the digital culture of the social
groups that comprise the socio-affective networks; (iv) the demand for connectivity for hybrid
and network play. The results point out that children are active in their cultures, and besides
that, from the interactions with digital mobile technologies, these children are circulating
among several digital environments, in which the online videos and digital games are their
favorites. Moreover, this study showed that the experiences in these environments have
structured the processes of production of children's cultures, since the social and cultural
experiences of playing begin to happen from the mixing of digital devices with dolls, toys,
and books, and children have considered these devices as a potential toy or an additional place
where one plays.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo ao Programa - 2650394 - LEILA DA FRANCA SOARES
Presidente - 1418909 - MARIA HELENA SILVEIRA BONILLA
Interno - 287526 - NELSON DE LUCA PRETTO
Externo à Instituição - RITA MARISA RIBES PEREIRA - UERJ
Interno - 2198885 - ROBERTO SIDNEI ALVES MACEDO