A tessitura do conhecimento via mídias digitais e redes sociais: itinerâncias de uma pesquisa-formação multirreferencial

Abstract

Cyberculture is contemporary culture structured by sociotechnical and cultural uses of digital media networks. Its dimensions directly affect everyday lives in cyberspace and in cities. It is in this context that this dissertation seeks to understand how teachers have come to use digital media networks. We demonstrate the emergence and interconnection of practices, narratives, and learning mediated within and by cyberculture. We have also instigated a dialogue between the approaches taken in multi-referential educational research (Ardoino, Macedo and Santos) and the research on everyday lives (Certeau, Alves, Oliveira). We employ a medley of devices based on face-to-face and online conversations (Moodle environment, via WebQuest interactive methodology) in the educational context of the IT in Education module of the EDAI (Teacher Training with Applied IT) offered by the Education Faculty at Rio de Janeiro State University. Along with the Moodle environment, we have also conversed with users by immersing ourselves in online social media and networks (Orkut, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger). In studying such practices, along with examining research on multi-referential and everyday life approaches, we have also called on research on cyberculture (Levy, Castells, Lemos, Santaella, Santos, Silva) and online education (Santos, Silva). By analysing users roaming and narratives, we have reached the following conclusions; a) digital networks potentialise and provide other time-spaces for learning and education, stimulating authorial and collaborative know-how; b) educational networks are interwoven inside and outside cyberspace, schools, and other multi-referential spaces; c) we need to reconsider curriculums during this era of cyberculture and outline proposals for education in schools, universities, and in cyberspace.