A construção social do self em interações midiatizadas: respostas de autistas ao ambiente estigmatizante

Abstract

Facing the perception that in the social environment the senses that stigmatize certain subjects circulate, this work has as its theme the creation of new response logics by autistic individuals. We problematize this issue from the understanding that the actors burst into the public space for the social constitution of their self, through mediatized interactions. We support our research movements in the abductive method to handle an inferential format that allows crossings between theory and empirical throughout the investigation. From the understanding of the socio-cultural context of the senses that involve autism, our theoretical reflections are in interface with the concepts of stigma (GOFFMAN, 1978), self and social actor (GOFFMAN, 1985), system, environment, and interpenetrations (LUHMANN, 2009). In addition, we are based especially on the perspectives of the mediatization process of society, acoording with perspective of research line Midiatization an Social Processes of PPGCC-Unisinos, as a way of understanding the ambience, circulation, and interaction. The analysis of our object is carried out through the observation of profiles of autistic subjects on Instagram, in which we seek to analyze the evidence from a methodology that considers the differentiation of individuals, overcoming a categorical grouping. In this space of analysis, we sought to bring transversalities with the visited theoretical concepts, which allowed us to make discoveries mainly regarding the constitution of the self through the interaction mediated by socio-digital networks and also the mutual affects between the individual and collective manifestations related to being autistic.