Este é alguém comic strips: a look at the social interactions on Facebook

• Grant number: 14/14525-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: October 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Ramos
• Grantee: Amanda Cristina Galhardo Siqueira
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to study the Facebook page "Este é alguém", focusing on its social interactions. The page is composed by comic strips about people's behavior in everyday relationships and on social networks. The main purpose of this study is to analyze how social interactions happen in comments, taking into account the form of the comic strips, that promote the comments, consequently the social interactions between the followers of the Facebook page. To this end, some authors who analyzed social networks and others who did research on comic strips, both considering the language aspect, are the theoretical principles of this work.