Virtual ethnography, mobile technologies and processes of subjectivity in the visual culture

• Grant number: 15/15578-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Maria Luisa Sandoval Schmidt
• Grantee: Douglas Rossi Ramos
• Supervisor: Amparo Lasen Diaz
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/11827-0 - Neonarcissism in the society of control: resistance and production of subjectivity, BP.DR

Abstract

This proposed of research intership have the objective of studying about the recent joint investigations and results related to the digital / virtual ethnography. Specifically, it aims to focus the issues about the subjectivities and current practices among people that using digital móbile technologies (smartphones). The choice by study these issues along with the groups linked to the research center of the University Complutense of Madrid, supervised by prof. dra. Amparo Lasén Díaz, presents important contribution to the development of our doctoral research (especially at the stage of empirical research and ethnographic narrative), because is a significant opportunity of get inside of one important production in the areas of mobile digital media, collective practices and subjective processes, themes directly related with the current stage of our research. (AU)