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This paper sets out to show the results of an experimentation of a Basque-Spanish-English trilingual didactic sequence (DS) in a Basque immersion educational context. It also seeks to explain the relevance of the seven principles of sociodidactics of languages (Dolz, 2019). The study adopts the theoretical perspective of text genres as didactic objects for the teaching and learning of the production of written and oral texts. It conceives a controlled and planned perspective of language alternation, so that it can contribute to interlinguistic transfers. An oral expository text combining Basque, Spanish and English constitutes the goal of the DS. The experimentation of the DS took place in a sociolinguistic context where Spanish is the predominant language of socialization for the students. The contrastive analysis between the initial and final texts of the DS shows an improvement of students' trilingual textual-discursive capacities. A pilot study of the teacher's didactic gestures points out the possibilities of language alternation for interlinguistic transfer. The paper highlights the relevance of the seven principles of sociodidactics: they permit to explain the functioning of the didactic system, and to develop a plurilingual didactic engineering in multilingual contexts, and specifically, in minority language revitalization contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Péri Archôn by Damascius simultaneously represents, beyond the intention of the author, the implosion of neoplatonic metaphysics and the most thorough and wrenching attempt to keep it alive and to assert the systematic explanation of reality. In this line, the text is driven by a double movement: on the one hand, postulating the uncoordinated Absolute (the Ineffable) and, on the other hand, postulating some kind of coordination with the whole of reality. Based on a comparison with some of E. Lévinas’ theses, I will argue that Damascius, endowed with a consciousness surpassing that of his predecessors, perceived the danger of postulating the Ineffable as absolutely uncoordinated and unrelated: it leads to the radical unfoundation of reality. To avoid this, Damascius had to retrace his steps and relate the Ineffable in some way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I consider a hermeneutic hypothesis regarding Platonic exegesis in order to show that it presents an original response to the problem posed by the critique of the middle-period dialogues in the so-called late dialogues After commenting on some difficulties of Platonic interpretation (section I) and on the existence of different hermeneutic paradigms for interpreting the dialogues, I present the basanistic hypothesis with the aid of two passages from Plato’s Republic. Next, I analyze some of its advantages (section III) and problems (section IV). In the conclusion (section V), I argue for the efficiency of this innovative approach as a tool for reading and interpreting the Dialogues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since food choices involve classifications and symbols that cover their consumption with an ethical and moral character, the objective of this paper is to analyze media consumption convocations of vegetable meat. Based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of French Discourse Analysis, we aim to study some different processes of discursive production materialized in the communication of media actors that convoke for this product consumption, such as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) linked to animal rights and brands that produce vegetable meat. We will observe the discourses in dispute and the different discursive strategies mobilized by these actors in media scenarios that promote the consumption of vegetable meat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to contribute with initial reflections on the adoption and regulation of cryptocurrencies, as well as blockchain technology in the case of Cuban socialism. It is assumed that both the cyclical crisis and the structural crisis represented by capitalism on a global scale contribute to the presence of this technology in Cuba. To this end, we seek to contextualize the regulation of crypto-activities in a planned economy and understand how this has resulted in the expansion of technology-based enterprises and projects supported by blockchain technology. Finally, with the contribution of the Political Economy of Communication, it is questioned to what extent cryptocurrencies can really solve the crisis of the Cuban system when democratization manifests itself only in the sphere of circulation, relegating the concentration of power and wealth that manifests itself in the productive sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper advances the hypothesis that, in Thomas Reid’s reading, David Hume’s skepticism of the Treatise on Human Nature is not solely due to his acceptance of the ‘ideal hypothesis’ – the principle according to which ideas are the immediate objects of the mental operations –, but it has another source, namely, that doubt on the reliability of the faculties of the senses, memory, and reason. Moreover, the paper argues that the suggested distinction between two roots for Hume’s skepticism allows a more exact view on Reid’s reading of Hume and solve some misinterpretations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reinforcing the term proposed by Queixalós & Renault-Lescure (2000, pp. 9-11) in the title, this paper aims to establish relations between the colonial history of Brazil and the policies for language teaching in our country since the beginning of the colonization, in order to analyze traces of linguistic coloniality that are still present nowadays. Through an analysis of the history of language teaching in Brazil (BESSA FREIRE, 2018; GRILLI, 2018; LUCCHESI, 2017; SAVIANI, 2007; SILVA & FAVORITO, 2018), with a theoretical basis in decolonial thinking (FANON, 2008; SOUSA). SANTOS, 2019; VERONELLI, 2015), this paper delimits three effects of the coloniality of language. It is argued that these three effects were launched by the abyssal exclusion of non-white peoples during the colonial period, but they persist firmly in contemporary Brazil. Finally, language education is defended as an emancipating alternative to the civilizing monolingualism, as a way to welcome the multiplicity of knowledges and speeches of the Brazilian people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From a socio-technical perspective, this paper proposes to study how the concept of intersectionality emerges in social networks. It is based on a double observation. First, the platforms allow the narrative construction of categories of the population that do not recognize themselves in media and cultural industry productions. Second, they enable the meeting (and grouping) of individuals based on social experiences that are common to them or on a common interpretation of these experiences. This paper aims to answer the following question: What is the result of the encounter between the performative power of intersectionality and the performative power of digital platforms? For this purpose, the text is organized into two parts. The first one is focused on the presentation of the data analyzed during the field research to demonstrate that the actors attribute a particular meaning to intersectionality, from which they produce alternative media objects and favor the construction of a community of action. The second part concerns the analysis of the political, material, and technical conditions of the emergence of this discourse on digital platforms. This research is part of a doctoral thesis in progress. It mobilizes classical techniques of the ethnographic method and digital tools that facilitate data collection and database construction. The analysis is based on a qualitative approach and on the articulation of different materials: presentation text and statistics (number of followers, likes, shares); notes taken in the field research notebook; 23 semi-structured interviews; and the analysis of multimedia content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although social constructivism argues that both epistemological criteria and social community factors must be taken into account in the explanation of a scientific achievement, critics of this approach persist on the idea that social constructivists assign an exclusive role to social community factors -- so, scientific facts are not a representation of nature but instead only a social construction. The aim of this paper is to argue, through a discussion of the concept of construction for social constructivist (by Isabelle Stengers' concept of heterogeneity and Karin-Knorr Cetina's concept of selection) not for advocating social constructivism itself, but for pointing its plausibility as a conception of science from an enlightenment of the concept of construction: a scientific achievement cannot be understood as an inescapable one, but depends on epistemological choices and social circumstances within scientific communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops an interpretation about the systematic role of the logical movement in Hegel's later philosophy, as well as offers a historical-genetic hypothesis for understanding the development of the unification of logic and metaphysics first applied, in a consolidated way, in the Phenomenology of Spirit. More specifically, we draw from the differentiation between Logic (die Logik) and the logical (das logische) the resource for explaining Hegel's metacategorial notion of his method of autonomous negation, extended both to logic, philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit as diverse disciplines. Henceforth, we show how the metacategorial understanding of negation has its emergence from the systematic adjustments that Hegel makes while still in Jena and how the successful application of this method operated as a point of resolution of his philosophical impasses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the growing migratory movement of Venezuelans to Brazil, the state of Roraima occupies a prominent place in the dynamics of reception of crisis migrants of Venezuelan origin. In this context, this paper aims to reflect on the representation of the Venezuelan as an "invader" in the midst of xenophobic manifestations of part of the population of Roraima and the Spanish language represented as "the language of the invader". The theoretical framework is based on applied linguistics with debates on language and crisis migration. The methodology used was qualitative and interpretativist, with clippings of oral narratives of crisis migrants living in Roraima generated in a focus group activity. The results point out that the representation of the "invading" migrant is present in Roraima's society by both Brazilians and foreigners, and the use of the Spanish language may influence the way these people are treated in the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers school as a place where students should be provided with experiences that contribute to their critical formation. The article identifies and analyzes appreciations of high school students and teachers about literary reading practices and situates the role of the agents involved in these practices. The corpus is made up of transcripts of speeches given by a literature teacher and second-year high school students in a state public school in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. The data were generated through semi-structured interviews, audio recorded, and conversation rounds, audio and video recorded. These records show perceptions about the reading practices of literary texts from the Literature as a subject. The discussion is supported by Compagnon (2012), Saraiva and Kaspari (2017), Cândido (2004), Cosson (2016), Zappone (2018), and Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) (Brazil, 2018), to discuss literature and its social role; and in Dieb (2014), Kleiman (1995, 2006, 2014), and Silva (2020), to reflect on literacy agency and agents. The results attest to the students' preference for practices that promote their protagonism and connections with their context, mediated by the teacher and their experiences with the literary text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aims of this paper are to suggest an analytic rating scale of the textual production of the discourse genre interview and discuss the pedagogical implications of its use in the promotion of learning. The perspective assumed is supported by the understanding of (a) the use of language as action (Clark, 2000), (b) discourse genres as a social construction to act in the world (Bakhtin, 2003; Volochinov, 2017) and (c) writing as social practice (Kleiman, 1995). Based on the criteria suggested by Simões et al. (2012), namely, purpose of the text, interlocution, text organization, content search, use of linguistic resources, review and finalization and response to the texts read, an analytic rating scale (Weigle, 2002) was created as a way of guiding the (re)writing process of the interviews conducted by high school students from a Federal Institute (Vial; Kanitz, 2022). The purpose of doing so is that students get to know the academic opportunities available in their school and share such information with the school community. The suggested rating scale can be used to guide students in the production of different versions of their texts, observing linguistic and discursive aspects to create the intended meaning, and to facilitate the elaboration of rewriting guidelines, both by the teacher and by the student. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper will present the notion of "individual" according with the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas seeking to identify the questions involving this notion. First, as an introduction, we observe this notion in general in some philosophical theories, but after we entered properly in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Only the individuation of the corporal substance will be presented, because Thomas have a different theory to the incorporeal substances, such as the angels, God and the separated souls. So, the Thomas's theory claims that the principle of individuation is the signaled matter, but such signaled matter is that which is considered as having certain dimensions. Our main concern will be to identify what means the expression "certain dimensions". We will use an explanation few habitual to clear this problem. Since that Thomas says that, in the hilemorphism, the matter receive the being from form, we will defend that there's a conjunct of proprieties of the matter that receive the being from form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Kant inaugurated his critical philosophy treating about formal conditions for the possibilities to solve problems (Critical Philosophy) he advanced in the 1790s to stablish anthropology as the aim of his philosophy. Considering this, our aim is to show that the reception of Kantian philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries was formalistic and logicist in a way that it has underlined its transcendental aspect when rather it ought to focus on the moral and the pragmatic (in Kantian sense). Thus, the return to Kant promoted by Neokantianism contributed to the forgetfulness and non-thematising the centrality of his Anthropology. It allowed Neokantianism to focus on the conditions for the possibilities of consolidating sciences in the half of 19th century, which has bequeathed to the Kantianism of the 20th century interpretative models of logicist and analytical biases; this left aside any deep reflection on the empirical part of Kant's philosophy as well because it was considered impure. Also, we will point out that the Ethnographic science does not consider for its constitution any heritage from Kant. Finally, it will be statistically proved by means of analysing the centenary historic of Kant Studien Journal that there has been a very low quantity of papers concerned about pragmatic themes. Kant's Anthropology has been forgotten by critical fortune when it should have been treated as central. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies news published in the newspaper Estado de São Paulo between 1969 and 2015 about transsexuality. The objectives consist in verifying the themes of the newspaper articles and identify the voices that are present, besides carrying out a characterization of the newspaper according to the assumption of communicative situation in Linguistics. The obtained results show an increase in the number of articles published over time, as well as the broadening of subjects covered. While in the first twenty years, only doctors and jurists talk about the theme, from 1990 onwards, transsexual people start to be heard by journalists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at offering an interpretation of the ideas and assumptions underlying Jean Amery's ethics of resentment, and also at projecting his ideas into the contemporary debate on transitional justice. By engaging with Amery's works this paper brings light to the different psychological, moral and temporal dimensions that underlie the processes of dealing with legacies of collective violence that continue to haunt democratic societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Violence against women is a reality in Brazil. Although the country has advanced in terms of legislation, with emphasis on Law n. 11.340/2006, Maria da Penha Law, and Law 13.104/2015, known as the femicide law, there are still many challenges in dealing with violence against women, which permeate legal, social, cultural and political issues. One of the points that draws attention is that not every crime is reported, which ends up impacting the consolidation of indicators on violence that can be used in the construction of public policies to support women and combat violence. There are still obstacles and challenges regarding the collection of these data, which are mostly obtained from the civil and military police of each state of the Federation, which use different structures and methodologies to measure this social phenomenon. The repercussion of cases of violence against women in the media is remarkable, which opens the opportunity to explore the news as sources of data. This paper explores the use of data mining solutions aimed at identifying themes explored in the context of violence against women from news pieces broadcast in digital media in order to seek an understanding of positions and articulations in the observed narratives. Therefore, a case study is carried out on a sample of journalistic texts extracted from the G1 Goiás news portal. The results obtained suggest patterns, in terms of temporality and themes explored, and highlight the issue of the invisibility of domestic violence against women and the exacerbation of extreme, unusual and so-called spectacular situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout history, reading clubs have had different purposes for members and their meetings have migrated from large salons to cyberspace (Rehberg Sedo, 2003; 2011, Fuller; Rehberg Sedo, 2013). Presenting characteristics that take into account the environments and interests of the subjects involved, they find space for their dissemination in the digital environment. Thus, this paper aims to analyze the media competence of Harry Potter fans and readers who participated in the first season of the online reading club "Hogwarts, Mil Histórias", a project developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Media competence is intended to assist in the development of citizens in their social and cultural commitment (Ferrés and Piscitelli, 2015). To do so, a questionnaire was applied to ten volunteer participants of the club, analyzing the dimensions of media competence that are in operation in interactional environments, based on the theoretical-methodological proposal of Ferrés and Piscitelli (2015). It is concluded that technical skills are not a problem for readers who participated in the research, but the understanding of the wide range that encompasses media productions and its effects needs further development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On November 14th, 2021, after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix, British F1 pilot Lewis Hamilton took a Brazilian flag and hold it to the podium. The gesture mirrored Ayrton Senna's, and it was largely covered by the sports news. But how did the media audience react to it? This paper examines the content of 987 comments of three news by Bandeirantes on the YouTube. It has identified at least three frames employed by the audience to make sense of Hamilton's victory and actions: (1) Personal: Hamilton is a 'second Senna', and won because of this inspiration; (2) Political: the gesture with the flag was framed in the political polarization, defined both as a 'leftist' and 'rightist'; (3) Religious: Hamilton won due to his use of God's gifts to him. These findings are discussed against the background of the framing analysis theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the presence of oral genres of the scientific sphere in the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) for Elementary School (1st to 9th grade). Considering the foregoing, we figure out the conception of orality in which the document underlies; we also seek to identify the oral genres of such a sphere indicated in the BNCC for the scientific field. The concerns direct our gaze to the documentary and qualitative analysis in the treatment of the data. With a view to the theoretical dialogue, we assume orality as a social practice manifested in a diversity of genres based on sound reality, as well as in the didactic treatment of the oral from a specific pedagogy. The results indicate two scenarios: i) although the document's conception of orality recognizes the supremacy of writing, some developments do not match this understanding; ii) there is a presence of oral genres in the selected sphere throughout Basic Education, but with unequal distribution between the initial years (1st to 5th) and final years (6th to 9th). The scenario requires greater investment by the ones who use the BNCC as a normative document, in order to incorporate new genres, mainly in the early years, and benefit the expansion of language skills in learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the knowledge that high school students participating in scientific initiation projects mobilize and employ in the writing of research articles, more specifically in terms of discursive abilities and their respective language operations. To do so, we selected ten research articles from two areas of knowledge - Agricultural Sciences and Linguistics, Letters and Arts -, produced by high school technical professional education students, in co-authorship with their advisors and with themes similar to those of the research projects. Such data are analyzed comparatively, through a qualitative-interpretative approach, from theoretical subsidies of Sociodiscursive Interactionism (ISD), notably with regard to the notions of language capacities and operations. The analyzes reveal that the producing agents of both areas mobilize types of discourses, textual sequences and other similar forms of planning, while adopting peculiar text plans, according to conventions that seem more related to each area of knowledge. This demonstrates that producers, when adopting a genre model, are able to adapt it to the discursive characteristics of the language action in which they are involved, which suggests an ongoing formative process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the concept expansion of didactic sequence, considering contributions from didactic engineering as well as the relationship between this tool and the didactic triangle in oral and written genres teaching proposals for Portuguese as a mother tongue. To achieve this aim, the theoretical framework is based on language didactics and didactic engineering. The academic texts selected as the corpus for analysis present the research results on oral and written textual genre production applying didactic sequence. Findings have shown the concept of didactic sequence firstly as a tool used to develop the students' linguistic abilities in order for them to produce the oral and written genres. The relationship with the didactic triangle is highlighted in studies focused on the "student" vertex, emphasizing the student-knowledge relationship. Secondly, considering the influence of didacting engineering, the concept of didactic sequence is expanded and its initial modular organization becomes more complex, having more textual activities being applied, creating the learning itinerary device, which is related to the didactic triangle. Such a relationship shows that the device is applied in studies on the "teacher-student" vertex, pinpointing the teacher-knowledge and the student-knowledge relationships. The itinerary is an expansion of the didactic sequence without interposing it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on the hypothesis that artificial intelligence would not represent the end of human supremacy, since, in essence, AI would only simulate and increase aspects of human intelligence in non-biological artifacts, this paper questions the real risk to be faced. Beyond the clash between technophobes and technophiles, what is argued, then, is that the possible malfunctions of an artificial intelligence – resulting from information overload, from a wrong programming or from a randomness of the system - could signal the real existential risks, especially when we consider that the biological brain, in the wake of the automation bias, tends to assume uncritically what is set by systems anchored in artificial intelligence. Moreover, the argument defended here is that failures undetectable by the probable limitation of human control regarding the increased complexity of the functioning of AI systems represent the main real existential risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a critique of the attention economy centered on the relationship between attention and value, the objective of this article is to undo three mistakes in the so-called attention theory of value: attention values information; attention is a form of productive work; and the attention functionalized in advanced technical interfaces becomes a form of production. Based on bibliographic research, this paper approaches references from the political economy of communication, attention value theory and attention economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates some communicational ambiences in light of the concepts of myth, in Mircea Eliade (1972, 1979, 1992, 2008); Olympism, in Morin (1997); ambience, in Baudrillard (1973); semiosphere, in Lotman (1996); fan culture and neo-religiosities, in Amaral and Carlos (2016) and Hills (2000), as well as based on the theoretical studies of memory, with Halbwachs (1990) and Nunes (1993, 2001, 2015). Taking as empire the 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions of the pop culture event, Comic Con Experience, known as CCXP, which conjures endless narratives, reflecting and refracting the devotion of fans and fandoms, it is aimed to analyze these ambiences that can be considered as mythical-media memorialistic ambiences and that reflect the devotion of fans generating a neo-religiosity. The article is methodologically based on bibliographic and documentary research and field research through participant observation and observant participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aims of this paper are to suggest an analytic rating scale of the textual production of the discourse genre interview and discuss the pedagogical implications of its use in the promotion of learning. The perspective assumed is supported by the understanding of (a) the use of language as action (Clark, 2000), (b) discourse genres as a social construction to act in the world (Bakhtin, 2003; Volochinov, 2017) and (c) writing as social practice (Kleiman, 1995). Based on the criteria suggested by Simões et al. (2012), namely, purpose of the text, interlocution, text organization, content search, use of linguistic resources, review and finalization and response to the texts read, an analytic rating scale (Weigle, 2002) was created as a way of guiding the (re)writing process of the interviews conducted by high school students from a Federal Institute (Vial; Kanitz, 2022). The purpose of doing so is that students get to know the academic opportunities available in their school and share such information with the school community. The suggested rating scale can be used to guide students in the production of different versions of their texts, observing linguistic and discursive aspects to create the intended meaning, and to facilitate the elaboration of rewriting guidelines, both by the teacher and by the student. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the growing migratory movement of Venezuelans to Brazil, the state of Roraima occupies a prominent place in the dynamics of reception of crisis migrants of Venezuelan origin. In this context, this paper aims to reflect on the representation of the Venezuelan as an "invader" in the midst of xenophobic manifestations of part of the population of Roraima and the Spanish language represented as "the language of the invader". The theoretical framework is based on applied linguistics with debates on language and crisis migration. The methodology used was qualitative and interpretativist, with clippings of oral narratives of crisis migrants living in Roraima generated in a focus group activity. The results point out that the representation of the "invading" migrant is present in Roraima's society by both Brazilians and foreigners, and the use of the Spanish language may influence the way these people are treated in the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers school as a place where students should be provided with experiences that contribute to their critical formation. The article identifies and analyzes appreciations of high school students and teachers about literary reading practices and situates the role of the agents involved in these practices. The corpus is made up of transcripts of speeches given by a literature teacher and second-year high school students in a state public school in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. The data were generated through semi-structured interviews, audio recorded, and conversation rounds, audio and video recorded. These records show perceptions about the reading practices of literary texts from the Literature as a subject. The discussion is supported by Compagnon (2012), Saraiva and Kaspari (2017), Cândido (2004), Cosson (2016), Zappone (2018), and Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) (Brazil, 2018), to discuss literature and its social role; and in Dieb (2014), Kleiman (1995, 2006, 2014), and Silva (2020), to reflect on literacy agency and agents. The results attest to the students' preference for practices that promote their protagonism and connections with their context, mediated by the teacher and their experiences with the literary text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to show the historical-theological conception about the nature and fundamentals of magic in the context of the Relectio de arte magica (1540) by Francisco de Vitoria (1486-1546). The devoted interest in the occult sciences on the part of Renaissance men and women is an unquestionablehistorical fact. Hence the interest and, at times, the fight by theologians against such knowledge, considered to be heterodox, fanciful, immoral and without foundation. This paper seeks to show Vitoria's view; how his opinion may present a certain concession to such occult knowledge, starting from the investigation of its historical and philosophical foundations that determine the nature of magic. If this optimistic, i.e., moderate and non-combative concession is to be made, the question arises: why should a theologian operating within theological orthodoxy make concessions and consider the knowledge of magic, i.e., the set of beliefs as subject to rational foundation and speculation? One solution would be to claim that the general background idea in such an intellectual stance consists in its universalistic view of theological ideas as applied to the great human questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper promotes a theoretical reflection on the limits of the fact-checking practice in a disinformation context, both from the computational perspective and the journalistic principle of objectivity. The study analyzes 2031 original messages sent from users to the Comprova Project, a coalition of dozens of Brazilian media outlets, using machine learning techniques, text mining and complex network modeling. The computational model investigates linguistic patterns that can help in the development of automation tools to identify potentially misleading content on the web based on semantic groupings. The findings serve to problematize structural changes in journalism in a media ecosystem that requires multidisciplinary responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to understand how a celebrity activates its political capital on Instagram to oppose social oppression and also to position herself in specific contexts, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, by assuming a posture of defense of progressive values, calling on the public and public manifestations about his vision of the world, configuring herself as a celebrityresistance. From a pragmatist (França; Simões, 2020a, 2020b) and intersectional (Crenshaw, 2002; Carrera, 2021a) approach, the analysis focuses on 39 publications from the profile of the singer Preta Gil, collected between May 4 and June 4, 2021, a period started by a remarkable event in her life: the death of Paulo Gustavo, as a result of Covid-19. By looking at the positions and values assumed by this celebrity, in addition to the minority social groups to which she pursues to link, we seek to reflect on the role that celebrities-resistance can play in the symbolic disputes held in the contemporary Brazilian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a theoretical-conceptual survey of the main challenges and epistemological perspectives related to language teaching and learning in the context of postmodernity. The discussion was constructed from the theoretical framework of Critical Applied Linguistics and the Postmethod. The methodology consists of qualitative research, with emphasis on the analysis of a corpus consisting of thirteen studies, published from 2017 to 2021, using the technique of Content Analysis. The results show, among the main challenges, the adoption of a disruptive epistemological, methodological and decolonial attitude, the understanding of the classroom as a productive place for identity constructions, for questioning cultural traditions and fostering translingual practices, the use of postmethod as a questioning movement of methodologies, approaches and curricula and the displacement of borders, under the support of critical, border, translanguaging, dialogic, decolonial and multiliteracy epistemological perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we discuss the colonialities of language discussed by undergraduate students of Letras: Inglês. The problematizations are based on experiences reported by the students focusing on two themes: the effects of coloniality in the construction of the Portuguese language in Brazil and in the Letras course. We structure our argument on the decolonial thought and on the idea that languages are inventions with real effects in language tests, migration, textbooks, and language teaching. The empirical material was generated in a critical language teacher education experience, and we use classroom interactions and answers from a written test in order to support our discussion. As for the invention of language, the reflections showcase the maintenance of the colonial epistemology, since the relation between language and subalternity is preserved. As for the Letras course, the discussions revealed contradictions. On the one hand, debates that promote language diversity were promoted, but on the other hand, when it comes to assessment only hegemonic forms were considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we reflect on the bodies of fat women who manifest themselves on Instagram as they disrupt media regulation and standardization by using the aforementioned platform as a mobilization tool. The theoretical framework is organized from an intersectional perspective in connection with studies on the body, the ‘place of speech’ and the concepts of ‘semiosphere’ and semiotic ‘explosion’. The proposed method for investigating the profiles of three digital influencers is based on the semiotics of culture in relation to intersectionality and the place of speech. In this scenario, we find an important and insurgent movement of resignifying the body in the media and expressing the active subjectivities of subalternized fat women who impose cultural and political issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an analysis of public profiles of self-identified lesbian, bisexual and trans candidates during the 2020 municipal elections. Our goal, based on an intersectional perspective, is to describe and analyze some of the characteristics present in the identity discourses of these candidates during their campaigns. We observed 132 candidacies on Instagram, from 20 political parties, in 21 Brazilian states. Data collection, via CrowdTangle, was carried out between September 27 and November 15 - from the beginning of the electoral campaign until the end of the first round - and resulted in 3.385 publications. To analyze this data, we used content analysis (CA). Data were selected according to the presence of intersectional elements, resulting in a final corpus of 359 publications. Among the results, we highlight: Instagram is the main platform used, especially for its affordances; LBT candidacies are often crossed by class, generation, religion and ethnic-racial belongings; race and gender identity markers are not named by white and cisgender women; representativeness is central to the candidacies, many of them unprecedented in their cities; and, finally, there is a proliferation identities seeking to occupy Brazilian’s politics spaces and using digital platforms to do so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how audiovisual contents produced to order by science communicators on YouTube can indicate and create discursive clashes on social media through the case observation of the science communicator and digital influencer Atila Imarino, considering the emergence of distinct intersectionalities concerning his position as a public figure. We understand that figures who invest in an intersection between the roles of researcher and digital influencer end up not only producing content related to their field of specialization, but also materials about the humanities, composing advertorials without clear distinctions. We’ve analyzed the video “The free market is a computer”, published on the YouTube channel Nerdologia, and the responses and comments generated on Twitter. We start from a qualitative multi-methodological perspective between platforms, combining textual analysis of YouTube videos to Analysis of the Construction of Meanings in Digital Networks (HENN, 2018 et al) and the categories of Intersection Roulette (CARRERA, 2020). As results, the status of “modest witness” (HARAWAY, 1997) and “moral entrepreneur (MIKOLSCI, 2021) materialized themselves in Attila’s positions and corroborate his social capital as an influencer and scientific disseminator. We understand that approaches that favor intersectionality and the problematization of the relationship between scientific production, subordinated identities and platformization are fundamental and bring more equity to combat scientific denial in digital media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to investigate the audiovisual project “Etérea”, by rapper Criolo, in light of the artist’s controversies with the LGBTQIA+ community. Thus, our hypothesis is that the project becomes a fruitful space to reflect how intersectional performative alliances can be built and materialized in the complex environment of digital networks.In order to operationalize the proposed analysis, we will visit Criolo’s artistic trajectory, attentive to the controversies involving his media performance and the LGBTQIA+ community over the last few years, based on interviews and media articles about the artist. Next, we will analyze the project “Etérea”, based on the premise that this work seeks an alliance (BUTLER, 2018) between normative masculinities and sexualities - striking characteristics of the performative environment linked to the rap genre and the media construction of Criolo - and the LGBTQIA+ movement.The theoretical approach will take into account the concept of performance (FRITH, 1996; GUTMANN, 2021; SOARES, 2013; TAYLOR, 2013; SCHECHNER, 2009) and the centrality that such studies give to the body in the production of meaning of networked musical audiovisualities. When analyzing such bodies and their presence in the musical audiovisualities entangled by the ecosystem of digital platforms (VAN DIJCK, 2013), we are going to bring into the discussion the idea that such ambiances work as (immaterial) spaces of political appearance (BUTLER, 2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the verbal and non-verbal behaviors adopted by participants of an electoral debate. To carry out this study, we adopted the theoretical and analytical principles of a theoretical-methodological approach developed by the Interaction & Formation Group, based at the University of Geneva. For this approach, language is an instrument for coordinating actions and a resource that allows interlocutors to communicate and negotiate knowledge, establish social links and transform the environment they are in, jointly building identity images and developing their interactional competence. Adopting the concepts, theoretical articulations and methods proposed by the group, this study analyzed an excerpt from the last electoral debate of the 2018 campaign for the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil. With the analysis, it was possible to observe that the interlocutors use verbal and non-verbal language to reveal expectations related to the context, showing its ruled, social and historical character, and to negotiate these same expectations, revealing that the meanings and the interaction itself are emerging, flexible and highly contextualised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from the writings of Bakhtin and his Circle, in this paper we analyze on-line editorials published in Portuguese and in Spanish by the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and El País, during February 2020. By comparing productions of the same speech genre in different ethnolinguistic communities, we intend to broaden the understanding of the genre itself, of the functioning of the field in which it is inserted and of the way de addressee is represented, taking into account the specificities of the production, circulation and reception of utterances in digital media. Our analysis reveals a transition period in the journalistic field. In the newspapers compared, the editorials manifest the contradictions between different reading practices and try to incorporate, each one in its own way, the heterogeneity of the presumed reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are facing difficult times, in which we find society polarized and, in this arena, the figure of Paulo Freire being central to many different and contradictory discussions. In this context, the intention of this paper is to understand how the propagation of memes in social networks may have contributed to the construction of a narrative of discredit of the patron of Brazilian education. In order to achieve this goal, memes about Paulo Freire shared by the School without Borders Movement were collected from its Facebook page. The data was analyzed in the light of the theory of dialogism (Bakhtin's Circle - Bakhtin, 2010; 2015; 2017; Volóchinov, 2017) and against our readings or Freire's work. The results of our analysis point to the use of pejorative terms and lack of ethical commitment, which potentially cause over-excitability and adherence of an audience against progressive ideas. In this arena, antagonistic voices appear narrowly and illustrate the need to seek forms of resistance with and beyond critical reading to understand how different ideologies are discursively built in language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present a critical discursive analysis of an experience in a school with an emphasis on possibilities and potentialities of critical reading by black women writers. From this, we seek to discuss a critical literacy practice aimed at raising awareness about gender and intersectional issues, such as race and class. Based on theoretical-methodological perspectives from critical discourse studies, studies on gender and (de)coloniality and the ethnographic and collaborative research approach, this paper analyzes representations of a reading and debate cicle held in 2017 in an Elementary School located in Ceilândia-Federal District (DF). The analysis presented here indicates as a possible contribution of the reading of literature produced by black women writers, in the school context, the promotion of practices of contestation against hegemonizing and colonial discourses of gender and race, with the potential to de-legitimize racist and sexist ideologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]