“ Se a carapuça serviu...” Estudo de caso sobre a cultura das indiretas e a violência simbólica no Facebook

Abstract

This study aims to discuss how the symbolic violence can be characterized and perpetuated through “hints”, on Facebook. In other words, “hints” are implicit and subtle constructions that, in many times, are also disguised as humor that threaten directly the online representation of each person. We will discuss in this research some concepts like: symbolic domination, habitus under Bordieu’s perspective, established and outsiders from Norbert Elias (2000) and the delineated border by the own people designing superiority according to their social roles (GOFFMAN, 2013). The idea is showing that violence doesn’t manifests itself just in physical and explicit acts, but it also can be found in the discourses and overlooked in the social relationships, not being different on the online environments. From the characteristics of computers’ mediated conversation and the publics in network (BOYD, 2007; 2010) we will focus on rituals, the online representation of self (BOYD e ELLISON, 2007) and some particularities of network society that we live in, making questions that deal with the construction of face (GOFFMAN, 2012) of each person. After mentioning the theoretical background of this dissertation, we have chosen three pages, which the use of “hints” is frequent and, after that, we selected two posts of each, totaling six publications. We consult the methodology of Mediated Discourse by Computer Analysis (MDCA) developed by Herring (2004; 2012; 2013). This reference is justified due to the necessity to find patterns that can indicate the maintenance of symbolic violence through the resources offered by MDCA, especially in exchanges introduced on Facebook, in order to considerate the particularities of this multimodal context the meaning effects produced, widespread and hidden by the “hint”.