Curtir, interagir e aprender no Facebook

Abstract

Increasingly, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are rapidly making communication, interaction and sharing of content between people a breeze. This research seeks to reflect on the contributions of Facebook as a learning space in an optional course of Postgraduate Education and analyze the interactions in a closed group on Facebook entitled Technologies and Social Inclusion. The group was an elective subject of the MSc Academic in Education of the PPGEduc/UFRRJ and was constituted by ten postgraduate students with different backgrounds. The discipline was mostly spent on Facebook and participants had the opportunity to explore the tools available in the group and to reflect collectively from different emerging discussion proposals. The data were generated from the interactions in the group. Nodelx software was used to analyze the nonlinearity and hypertextuality present in the interactive process in this network. As results, the research elucidates noises and silences observed in the interactive dynamics in this group. Noises were characterized from the interactions related to the discussions that took place in the group. And as silences are characterized the silent trails of the members when using the network, that is, the long period of time without interacting in the network.