Production of cyberculture meaning: a proposal for understanding spectral communication

• Grant number: 06/00166-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2006
• End date: May 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Theory of Communication
• Principal Investigator: Ciro Juvenal Rodrigues Marcondes Filho
• Grantee: Marco Toledo de Assis Bastos
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It has been believed that a particular production of meaning takes place in electronic communication, quite different from others media. This Doctoral propounds to study this particular meaning creation at the same time that discuss many standpoints in theory of communication – for that implies a new theoretic backgrounds to deal with it. The aim of this work is theorizing this meaning production based in a dysfunctional diagram, namely here as "spectral". Hence the focus will lay at three online interactive patterns: chats, networking communities and e-mail list discussion. The matter in question is to correlate very different dynamic interactive patterns in electronic communication that nevertheless keep a similar circuit in regard to their meaning outflow. Operationally, object and objectives are very much the same as far as it is all about theorizing this (non)sense production of meaning. This means that to develop a theory to electronic relationship is not, in spite of the technical affairs in question, a minor target of this work. It is very matter in question, indeed. It is assumed that the time this work demands also comprehend setting up sources and resources, and so most of them are already done. This proposes is very much a sequence and an enlargement of what this research has been investigating while mastering, for problems such as meaning, intentionality and online interaction are back again, though in a way that goes straightforward to the very core of question that theory of communication deals with. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BASTOS, Marco Toledo de Assis. Spectral: Meaning and Digital Communication. 2010. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) São Paulo.