“Esse é meu lugar no mundo”: maternidade e deficiência nas redes sociais

Abstract

This dissertation has as a research theme mothers of children with disabilities and their performance in social networks Facebook and Instagram. Our goal is to understand the conceptions about maternity and disability listed in the publications of three mothers in the social networks listed. Qualitative research on the Internet and some aspects of netnography were adopted as a methodological method of research. It is believed that the internet has been a space of manifestation of important social phenomena and therefore it is susceptible of qualitative studies like those realized here. The theoretical references that anchor this research are in the studies about the deficiency presented by Piccolo from the reflections on the medical model and the social model, the historical construction of the maternity presented by Badinter in "The myth of the maternal love" and the contributions of Sibilia about the sharing of private life on the internet. The analyzes of the postings of the interlocutors of this research reveal individualistic conceptions of disability such as those approached by the medical model as well as the understanding of disability as a universal and human category. It was also noticed from the analysis of the statements of the shared texts the idea that maternity with disability requires a specialized mother who concentrates on herself all the responsibility for the development of the children. The individualistic model intensified by the new forms of capitalism expressed on the internet require visibility and authenticity of subjects who daily expose their intimate lives on the internet. In this context, the research interlocutors go through the evils and benefits of having their maternities exposed on the world computer network.