COELHO, Ana Paula Pereira    AZAMBUJA, Patrícia. Actions, Traces and Controversies Online/ Offline: possibilities methodological from Actor-Network Theory. []. , 15, spe, pp.1201-1223. ISSN 1808-4281.

The media convergence process offers a wide area and everyday practices and behavioral complex. Virtual actions invariably show up dimensions involved, at first, simple actions and conversations in the network. However, that view reveals, among other things, technological conditions, social visibility, human, cultural, political affairs, etc. There is a curious fluidity to some events which pass freely between on-line and off-line spaces, between public and private spaces, and also between interpersonal and mass media space etc. At this stage and using a specific area as a starting point, we propose the production of a small connection map. Using the Actor-network Theory, often abbreviated as ANT, as a methodological possibility. From an ethnographic writing (in virtual context) we look for tracing linkage and stabilize a network that allows us to understand, even partially, the multiple flows and associations provided by the communications tools (digital or conventional).

: social networks; sociotechnics; actor network theory; methodology.

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