Peculiaridades do exercício da função autor em redes sociais : uma análise discursiva de “mensagens compartilhadas” pelo Facebook
Resumen
This dissertation derives from the continuation of reflections started in previous researches
(scientific initiation and term paper), when we use the discursive analysis of a “new” type of
text, formed by short phrases published in social networks, such as Facebook. Those phrases
present a particular formal structure, and their meanings play different roles in virtual
interaction. We designate those “phrases” circling in the virtual environment, which are selected,
highlighted, and have images added to help build a universal text, as shared messages. We focus,
at this master’s research, therefore, to the analysis of constitution and sharing practices of some
messages with pieces of text from books and interviews, which enunciation are related to
contemporary literary authors renowned in Brazil – like Caio Fernando Abreu and Clarice
Lispector, and others that although have fewer cultural prestige, show a wide renown between
groups of young readers, i.e. Tati Bernardi. This way, our corpus is made of messages from
three sharing pages: O Mundo De Caio Fernando Abreu e Clarice Lispector; Caio, Tati e
Clarice o que me diz; and Trechos de Livros. All these pages dedicate to publish messages
related to the authors in their names or that present a collection of pieces of text from various
recent published books, from which is common posting messages with authorship given to Caio
Fernando Abreu and Clarice Lispector, specifically. In this dissertation, evidences of how the
authorship works along with the construction and sharing of those messages are analyzed,
through a formal analysis of them, as well as an analysis of the readers’ comments about the
authorship, under the theoretical-methodological perspective of two contemporary theories that
allow us to study the question of reading: the french Discourse Analysis, and specially the
theories from works of Michel Foucault about the “author function”; and the Cultural History
of reading, mainly about the works of Roger Chartier about reading actually – theories that, in
their articulation, allow us to list permanencies and mutations through which our actual reading
practices go. We observe that, although recent, the production and sharing of those speeches are
submitted to an authorship working mechanism relatively similar to printed order. About the
readers’ comments, we notice two speaking forms: one that copy, in a certain way, the form and
content expressed by the messages, applying aspects of the “poetic function”, at the author’s
style at expressing its impressions about the message; and another one that focuses on
questioning the authorship of those speeches, citing the original sources of the texts, or
questioning and recognizing vestiges that allow the identification of a correct authorship
attribution in those messages. This way, we can analyze some characteristics of this new
reader’s/author’s profile that emerge with the creation and diffusion of new technologies.