HETEROGENEIDADE EM REDE: PRESENÇA E PRÁTICAS DE USO ENTRE ESTUDANTES DA UNIVERSIDADE METODISTA DE SÃO PAULO NAS REDES SOCIAIS

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Velasques, Marcos Barbosa
• Orientador(a): Josgrilberg, Fábio Botelho
• Banca de defesa: Goulart, Elias Estevão, Vieira, Almir Martins
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: PÓS GRADUAÇÃO EM COMUNICAÇÃO
• Departamento: Processo Comunicacionais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: heterogeneidade em rede; redes sociais; cibercultura; comunicação mediada por computador; tecnologias da informação e comunicação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Network heterogeneity; social networks; ciberculture; communication mediated by computer; information and communication technology &#8195
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS
• Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/641

Social networks via the internet gain considerable presence in current communication processes in that they permit greater interaction between those that are connected. Nonetheless, the concept of networks, contrary to common sense and those familiar with the academic world, in fact does not propose a symmetric organization, static and homogenic. The network is, by nature, dynamic and heterogenic, just as is society. Social networks and digital networks demonstrate this. They enlarge and diminish those that that posses different degree of connections and even within these degrees of connection is diverse. The present study is divided into two fundamental parts. The first seeks to understand the concept of networks, and because of this is based on Milton Santos, Pierre Musso and Albert-Láslo Barabási. In the second part, based on research with university students, the concern is to identify the heterogenities that exist in their presence in networks and the practices of use, based on six categories of analysis and activities: personal relationships, studies, work, activism, entertainment and rest activities and information and news. The fundamental question, with respect to the possibility of networks, regards the different levels of participation, or if you will, the heterogeneity of the networks. The result of the study shows the heterogenities in which the students, in spite of their possessing similarities in function of their approximate age, condition social and by the fact of studying in a private university, are different among each other, especially if compared to their areas of formation. It is not only the presence in social networks that create different levels, it is also their practices. However, the concept of heterogenic networks in itself, in the thinking of Milton Santos, Pierre Musso and Albert-Lásló Barabási, is confirmed by the research applied to the university students of the undergraduate presencial courses of the Methodist University of São Paulo, based on the analysis of their presence and practices of use.