Apropriações publicitárias de ciberacontecimentos: sentidos oriundos de conversações em rede operadas por atores sociais com interesses mercadológicos como estratégia de relacionamento

Abstract

This research aims to understand the process of creation of certain meanings from computer-mediated conversations through cyberevents' appropriations made by social actors with market interests. The potentialities of creation of meaning from cyberevents called #MeuAmigoSecreto and #LoveWins and their appropriations made by Universal Pictures do Brasil and Havaianas are observed and analyzed. First, the research identifies the creation of meaning applied by the organizations as an invite to establish conversations. Following, the meanings from those conversations are organized by categories, in order to analyze how they, in fact, are constituted and how they are related. The theoretical framework of this research begins with the importance acquired by social networking websites and the content spreading -the spreadable media nominated by Jenkins, Ford & Green (2014), through the digital social networks. In a semiotics perspective, the content spreading constitutes a potential process of creation of new meanings, besides relations and intersections among each other. The process is observed through the creation of meaning in social networks methodology, developed by Laboratório de Investigação do Ciberacontecimento. The creation of meaning is constituted by contests, mostly the contests of prevailing meaning, and meanings that support or refute the conversation object, in a context collapse environment. Nevertheless, the attempt there is to analyze those conversations beyond this reductionist perspective in front the complexity of events and Semiosis.