O textão no Facebook: o posicionamento do sujeito na rede

Abstract

In this dissertation, we developed a reflection on discursive issues present in the digital space. The research problem on which we intend to reflect has as its focus the textão as the subject's positioning space on Facebook. To do so, we focused on the theoretical framework of the French Discourse Analysis, based on studies focused on the concepts of text, subject, memory, technology, digital, authorship, thus developing the work from authors such as Michel Pêcheux, Eni Orlandi, Cristiane Dias, among others. We aimed to understand the space that the social network Facebook offers to the subject in order that they may signify themselves by positioning: the textão. Our methodological procedure involved the sample of five textões, observing the operation of this text in this digital space and searching for two main regularities: (i) the initial warning, which is directly associated with the idea of extension, and (ii) the construction of a positioning, which is directly linked to the notion of the subject-position of this subject-author. As a result, we observe that due to Facebook functioning as a space of immediacy, instantaneousness, and circulation, involving texts and meanings, the subjectauthor, to provoke a pause in the net flux, warns the subject-reader that he/she will post, inviting the reading. Furthermore, we understand that this reflection upon positioning is directly related to the text naming – textão – which we seek: to understand in its singularity and relation to the concept that foregrounds it, the text, and to mobilize in consideration to conditions of production specific to Facebook.