Memes: uma experiência de produção de sentido no Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

The general objective of this research was to develop a teaching proposal, formulated from the study of the relations between education, digital genres and cyberculture, focusing on the analysis of the phenomenon of memes, having as a public interest of application the Portuguese Language Teaching in Fundamental II, more specifically students of “correction of flow” at the Public School Jose Bonifácio, located in Niterói (RJ). For the development of the general objective, the following specific objectives were established: 1) To present memes for reading and interpretation activities, seeking to promote a critical reading of this material by the students; 2) Analyze how the process of receiving memes by the students occurs, verifying what motives they present to be interested more or less by some memes; 3) Propose activities of interpretation and production of memes, observing the difficulties and facilities of understanding and production of the genre. The proposal proves to be relevant, since there is a real social need to train critical readers against the bombardment of information transmitted in Social Networks, through digital genres such as memes. At the end of the research, there is a detailed description and qualitative analysis of the results obtained with work that was carried out with the students.