Photos that make speech: methodological challenges for analysis of thematic networks in fotologs

• Autor(a) principal: Montardo, Sandra Portella
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/4803
• topic: Online socialization; photologs; thematic network; Dossier ABCiber; Socialização on-line; fotologs; redes temáticas; Dossiê ABCiber

The fact that fotologs predominate on thematic network about Down’s syndrom (DS), and the numerical insignificance of this resource on other network about disabled people, raise the question: which advantages do fotologs have over blogs? Which blogs resources are irrelevant for DS children’s parents? This article aims to identify the process of social inclusion on this net starting from the application of methodology in two stages. Whereas netnography (Hine, 2005, Kozinets, 2002) is used to identify, select and obtain data of the selected fotologs, the Social Network Analysis (SNA) provides methodological material for analysis of exchanges made on fotologs. Thus, the goal of this paper is to understand the photo as a resource of socialization on fotologs and the option for this kind of support on this thematic network.