BARBOSA, S. C. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0056278668988964; BARBOSA, Sandra Carla Pereira.
Resumo:
Recent reading practices were influenced by technologies advent, which affects the
ways to read interact and communicate in various everyday life situations. This
initiates new languages and provides innovated reading situations that require changes
in behavior patterns before digital environment. When one views videos on social
networks, s/he uses readers’ reading skills and strategies that may influence
contemporary reader establishment. So, we developed this research focusing on
readers’ abilities description before writing reviews on videos display at social
networks, because we found out that to view and to post are wide acceptance practices
at internet. Thus, we conducted this research based on the question: What kind of
reading skill is in focus at videos released on social networks? In order to answer it, we
set the following objectives: general context: to study reader and reading concept
underlying comments after posting videos on social networks. As specific objectives,
we intend to describe genres operation in released videos and to identify readers’ skills
on comments produced on genres shown in videos. This is a qualitative research with
descriptive/interpretative nature. We selected five videos shared on social networks
Facebook and YouTube, as well as 25 comments related to such medias. Theoretical
foundation is grounded in Kato (1985), Leffa (1996) and Kleiman (2013), dealing with
reading strategies, as well as contemporary reading profile proposed by Coracini
(2005). We also adopt hypertext by Lévy (1993). Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996)
support multimodality concept used throughout this dissertation. Moreover, we
considered multiliteracies by Rojo (2012). Results show that multimodality in genres
anchored in videos works as reading motivators. It provides readers’ interactions and
behaviors with multiple criticality levels. Besides, comments about videos in focus
identified readers’ skills use in linguistic and affective procedures, with emphasis on
individual placements and cultural demands. Such skills, which are little related to
textual linguistic aspects, result in comprehension ranging from neutrality and valuation
criteria.