Teses em Comunicação, Cultura e Amazônia (Doutorado) - PPGCOM/ILC
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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) O movimento da Zwanga African fashion: comunicação e moda ativista como prática decolonial na Amazônia-amapaense(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-12-20) NEVES, Lúcio Dias das; AMARAL FILHO, Otacílio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2605877670235703; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5467-8528The thesis analyzed the understanding of the communicative experience of women who participated in the fashion shows proposed by Zwanga in the 2020, 2022 and 2023 editions, as well as a small sample of men who participated in the 2023 edition. Studying Zwanga as a locus of doctoral research transcends fashion, as it articulates the creative economy, entrepreneurship, and the restoration of the self-esteem of Afro-Brazilians. The theoretical foundation was based on the works of researchers from the Amazon como Amaral Filho (2016), tendo suas idéias reforçadas em autores como Tarcízio Silva (2020), Joaze Bernardino-Costa, Nelson Maldonado-Torres e Ramón Grosfoguel (2018) e Molefi Kete Asante (2009) who strengthen the ideas about decoloniality based on local culture, racism,maraçá, quilombismo and other manifestations of Afro-Amapaense culture and an important approach to Zwanga and other cultural manifestations of Amapá . Communication research is basic in nature, using as a case study the means for investigating the Afro-Amazonian traditions and heritages that permeate the Zwanga movement. Under this approach, we opted for an explanatory and participatory type of research – since the author is part of and knows himself in this process, to study specific phenomena, in an analytical and critical way, referring to the universe of Afro-entrepreneurial fashion in Amapá – the experience of Zwanga. For data collection and analysis, several open interviews were used with the Afroentrepreneur and semi-structured interviews with women and men who participated in Zwanga's fashion and social events between the period 2020–2023.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) O cárcere e o relato de si: abjeção e normas regulatórias na experiência de mulheres sobreviventes ao centro de reeducação feminino(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-10-02) FONSECA, Nathália de Sousa; LAGE, Leandro Rodrigues; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2396184188116499; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6814-9640In this work, we investigate how relationships are woven between regulatory norms, intersectional systems of inequalities, and abjection as verbalized by our interlocutors in their self-reports. By investigating the experience of women who have been incarcerated, selfreports are the materialization of ethical violence – which can be subjective – in the lives of the research interlocutors. This form of violence is affected by regulatory norms, intersectionality and abjection - which are configured as moral grammars that are mobilized to organize intelligibility before and within prison. Through this problem, we seek to understand the fabric of the relationship between regulatory norms, intersectional systems of inequalities and abjection through self-reports of women who have been inmates at the Women's Reeducation Center (Belém-PA). To this end, we propose to investigate whether or in what way the movement of self-reporting by the women concerned is marked by a denial of humanity, the imposition of gendered norms and practices that traverse social markers of differences (gender, race, class and sexuality), or even their questioning. Methodologically, the central concepts that animate the work are used as analytical categories, and they have proven fruitful in the analysis. Among the results, we have the imposition of the scene of interpellation that deals with the moment of arrest as the first self-report of the interlocutors, the “woman not to be” in the understanding of how the regulatory norms of gender configure that women are incarcerated women, the intersection that unfolds in the “patent” of wealth and the privileges that intertwine with it; operating in intersectional systems and in abjection we have the reality of women who were incarcerated due to their homeless condition, to these, abjection challenges them in such a way that they are denied the status of subject, framed as dirty, and even in intersectional systems of inequalities they reflect the other side of the “patent”, devoid of respect among incarcerated women.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Tensões interseccionais e giro decolonial no fazer poético da escritora paraense Roberta Tavares(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2025-02-22) VIDAL, Claudia Valeria França; LAGE, Leandro Rodrigues; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2396184188116499; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6814-9640The present thesis defends that Brazilian literature written by women is a space saturated with intersectional forces due to being transversed by social differences inherited from the violent European colonial process on the Americas. This is because as social agents interact, they engage in relations in which they seek to reach their interests exerting pressure on each other, that is, generating forces of power that take different forms in each society that can superpose enhancing one the other (Foucault, 1995). Although power is not a substance that may be retained and power relations also generate resistance movements, historical processes of domination breed forms of oppression that are more stable because they are historically prolonged and naturalized in a society, but in certain spaces the intensity they act intersectionally make them more evident (Collins 2022). Thus, the main goal of this research is to investigate the reverberation of gender, racialization and social class intersectional tensions in Roberta Tavares’s poetic practice considering her specificity as a woman and black person and quilombola living and producing literature in the state of Pará in the XXI century. To this purpose, we discuss colonial origins of gender, racialization and class oppression present in Brazilian social space constitution affecting above all racialized women such as the writer. Furthermore, we outline a diachronic panorama of the field of literature of female authorship from Pará with the aim of understanding the current context conditions that contribute to embrace or hinder the emergence of her production. Moreover, we think about Tavares’s works considering her mentioned specificity. The justification for this research in the scope of Communication studies is the perspective of literary text as an enunciative unity that integrates a communication process in dialogue with others as proposed by Gadamer (1999), Ricoeur (2010) and Bakhtin (2010). The decision to focus the investigation on Roberta Tavares’s works is due to her representativity in the scope established from an unprecedent survey conducted in the present research between 2021 and 2022 which catalogued 136 active female writers from Pará from the researcher’s pre-existing collection. The investigation was guided by a combination of the with affections (Moriceau, 2020) and intersectional research approaches and accomplished combining documental and bibliographical methodologies. Five axes of analysis were adopted, the first one concerning the materiality of the writer’s three individual books and the other focusing the poems of the artisanal book “Mulheres de Fogo”. Besides the mentioned studies, the theoretical framework was mainly composed of authors who discuss Brazilian literary historiography and gender, such as Gotlib (1998), Duarte (2004 and 2018) and Dalcastagnè (2018), coloniality and decoloniality in Latin America, such as Quijano (2005), Mignolo (2017), Maldonado-Torres (2019) and Carneiro (2023), and feminisms of decolonial orientation, such as Gonzalez (2018), Lugones (2014) e Ribeiro (2019). We conclude that Tavares poetic writing aligns to ‘escrevivências’ (Evaristo, 2020) and is disruptive in relation to the hegemonic tradition and that Para’s current context is more propitious to its emergence in comparison to previous historical periods.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Publicidade digital : apropriações e implicações na atuação publicitária de profissionais de Belém do Pará no contexto da midiatização profunda(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2025-02-19) SOUSA, Thatianne Silva; VIEIRA, Manuela do Corral; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1758973354834768; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2034-5359This work focuses on digital advertising in the context of deep mediatization and takes as its empirical object the opinion of advertising professionals in Belém do Pará. Thus, the guiding questions of the research are: how are the modes of production and circulation of digital advertising in the context of deep mediatization, which occur globally, appropriated in local contexts, and what are the implications for the advertising practices of professionals in Belém do Pará?. This is a qualitative research, with a methodology inspired by cartography and we used bibliographical survey, documentary research, and fieldwork as methods, applying the technique of semistructured personal interviews. The fieldwork was conducted in three stages, namely: field I, interviews with advertising researchers, to understand the theme of transformations in advertising within the digital environment; fields II and III, interviews with advertising professionals, to identify perceptions of digital advertising and its implications for their practices. The theoretical frameworks employed to dialogue with the field interviews included deep mediatization and datafication; mediatization in the Amazon; digital advertising flow; transformations in the advertising field and work; and advertising education and ethics. As results, based on interviews with advertising professionals, we identified that: they understand the transformations in the production and circulation of advertising in the digital environment but face limitations regarding regulation and platform rules, and, at times, how to act when faced with ethical dilemmas imposed by the market; advertising in Belém do Pará faces challenges unique to the region, requiring a balance between local relevance and global transformations; and, as the main finding, the relationships between academic training, advertising ethics, and the particularities of the local context, which are essential pillars for understanding and practicing advertising in the digital environment. Finally, we understand that advancing toward relevant advertising, education, and ethical practices requires a constant (re)thinking of advertising practices, always considering the perspectives of local identities and regional appreciation.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Territorialidades de enunciações: as Amazônias na tetralogia Amazônica, de Benedicto Monteiro(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-09-24) OLIVEIRA, Airton Souza de; CASTRO, Fábio Fonseca de; : http://lattes.cnpq.br/5700042332015787; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8083-1415Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) As mulheres da resistência e megaprojetos na Amazônia: comunicação, território e luta em Barcarena (PA)(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-04-24) SILVA, Leonardo de Souza; COSTA, Vânia Maria Torres; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7517564393392394; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0493-8763The ideology of modernity present in Latin America is an ontology created by European governments, whose pillars were built on racism and patriarchy. This legacy has entered through our veins and is present in the Brazilian Amazon through mega-mining projects, the main contemporary examples of modernity planned by Westerners, experts in the commercialization of nature. Based on the absence of dialogue and in line with history, the activity promotes inequality among minorities such as women. Mega-projects have implications on women's lives, and considering this scenario, we propose to investigate and reach narratives of women who are part of this reality. Based on ethnographies and themed-content analysis, we researched the life stories, the impacts of mining, and the fights of three female leaders from Barcarena (PA) against the mega-projects. We analyze their memories and narratives on the mineralization of the territory, their knowledge, and the paths adopted to resist. We also highlight the use of WhatsApp as the main interactive device for organization and mobilization of the fights. This research aims to resonate the narratives of these historically invisibilized characters, judged and presented as devoid of political agency in the mineralized territory, but who use their voices, body, unity, and hope to resist, denying what is established and fighting for rights.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) O cinema de luta dos Mêbengôkre-Kayapó: as múltiplas dimensões de resistência nos filmes e práticas de produção do Coletivo Beture(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-08-30) GOMES, Angela Nelly dos Santos; LAGE, Leandro Rodrigues; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2396184188116499; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6814-9640This research reflects on the cinema produced by Mebêngôkre-Kayapó indigenous filmmakers, focusing on the films and production practices of the Beture Collective, which brings together filmmakers from this ethnic group in the state of Pará, Brazil. The aim is to understand how the cinema of the Beture Mebêngôkre-Kayapó Collective expresses dimensions or meanings of resistance through its works and filmmaking practices, in relation to the socio-political or cultural struggles of the ethnic group. In order to understand how cinema is appropriated and transformed into an ally in these struggles, and in what dimensions this occurs or is expressed, we analyzed the works of the Beture Collective that are representative of their production; we observed and analyzed the group's production practices in an attempt to understand how they relate to the resistance processes of the Mebêngôkre people; what the motivations and objectives of filmmaking are and how the Beture Collective appropriates techniques, technologies and cinematographic or audiovisual language and adapts them to their objectives according to their worldview. This is a qualitative study developed through film analysis and field research with open-ended interviews and observational participation. The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary in that it combines film and image studies with Latin American criticism from the perspective of decolonial studies, as well as concepts related to indigenous studies from anthropology, sociology and geography, which converge with the subject of the research, in order to understand the meanings of resistance that are expressed, constitute or cross Mebêngôkre cinema. The research highlights the complexity of Mebêngôkre cinema and the Beture Collective, which is born and develops in a way that is intertwined with the sociopolitical and cultural issues of the ethnic group and indigenous peoples as a whole. We conclude that the cinema of the Beture Collective is a cinema of struggle, a multifaceted practice of resistance, since it is born and develops intrinsically to the struggles for rights in various senses, for the preservation and demarcation of territories, for affirmation as a producer of their images, narratives and memories, and presentation of their ways of seeing and being in the world. A cinema that is also mediation in the complex ethnic and intercultural interrelationship with indigenous and non-indigenous society.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Entrelaces da resistência: comunicação e práticas emancipatórias de mulheres negras trançadeiras da Amazônia(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-06-13) SOUSA, Raissa Lennon Nascimento; AMORIM, Célia Regina Trindade Chagas; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9650931755253248This research focuses on the emancipatory practices of black women hair braiders living in Amazônia, in Belém Pará. We understand braiding activity as communicative experience of resistance, economic autonomy, and overcoming the oppressions that affect black Amazonian women. The braid, for black women and men, is not just a matter of aesthetics or vanity it represents an encounter with African ancestry and the affirmation of an historically relegated identity by a racist society. For Nilma Lino Gomes (2019), hair and body can be considered expressions of Brazilian black identity, since they are symbols of relations of violence and ethnic racial inequalities. The objective of this work is to understand, in light of communication and social sciences, the crossings that women hair braiders experience on issues concerned to racism, black identity, coloniality, ancestry, territoriality, and resistance. We understand that braiding culture in Amazônia enables singular forms of communication divergent from the logic of the capitalist and colonialist white patriarchal system. As methodological paths inspired by Kilomba (2019), we conducted an investigation focused on the individuals, through non-directive interviews (in depth) with black women hair braiders, who work in the city of Belém Pará. From the reports extracted from this dialogue, we interweave a decolonial and Afrodiasporic epistemology, in which the women's narratives are what show us the paths of research. We are supported by Muniz Sodré's (2014) notion of the organization of the bond and the “common”, Paulo Freire's (2018) critical theory, Grada Kilomba's (2019), bell hooks' (2017) and Nilma Lino Gomes' (2019) reflections on race and gender, and Zélia Amador de Deus' (2019) and Vicente Salles' (1971) perspective on blackness in Amazônia, among others. The emancipatory practices of women hair braiders happen through overcoming economic difficulties, in solidarity, in the valorization of a black, feminist, and Amazonian identity, and above all, in the communicative relationship of black ancestry promoted by braiding.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Estratégias discursivas e relações de poder na Imprensa de Vigia, Pará, no século XIX: O Liberal da Vigia, O Espelho e Cidade da Vigia(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-11-02) SANTA BRÍGIDA, Jessé Andrade; SEIXAS, Netília Silva dos Anjos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2301685130625189This research focuses on the analysis of the expansion of the press in the Amazon region during the 19th century, with a particular emphasis on the city of Vigia in Pará. The newspapers O Liberal da Vigia, O Espelho, and Cidade da Vigia serve as empirical objects for investigation. The research formulated the central problem of how these periodicals became spaces for the circulation of power relations in the city of Vigia during the 19th century, through the discursive strategies they adopted in their presentations to readers. The general objectives included identifying the discursive strategies and political and social ideals promoted by the newspapers of Vigia, analyzing the role of these periodicals in the establishment and maintenance of the press in the city, investigating the circulation of discourses in the city, and evaluating the importance of newspapers as means of communication and discursive subjects. The methodology used involved the analysis of French-oriented discourse in the periodicals, with an emphasis on identifying discursive strategies related to editorial presentation and the political and social meanings proposed by the newspapers in the 83 editions available in archives. Additionally, the research used documentary and bibliographic analysis to contextualize the period under study and the relevance of the periodicals of that time. The results revealed that the newspapers were simple, often with between two and five columns of text, with creative layout, considering resource limitations. The content of the periodicals varied, with a focus on political issues in O Liberal da Vigia and O Espelho, aligned with the Liberal Party, which emphasized education and literacy issues. Cidade da Vigia, linked to the Republican Party, presented administrative content due to the limited number of available editions, but still reflected important political stances. The discursive strategies adopted by the publications were associated with politics and religion, reflecting the relationship of the inhabitants of Vigia with Catholic issues and proposing the idea of civility that did not ignore religion as a fundamental part of the social group's identity. O Espelho used a peculiar strategy, alternating prose and verse texts to elevate political debate to the realm of ideas, while O Liberal da Vigia and Cidade da Vigia highlighted their affiliation with political parties as a means to legitimize their proposals. Although we did not find a unified defense of the press as an institution in the city, the newspapers played important roles in the circulation of political and social discourses, contributing to the consolidation of political power in the city. The results indicate the need for the preservation and study of these periodicals, highlighting their role in the history of the Amazon and Brazil. This research represents a first step for future studies on newspapers in other cities in Pará during the 19th and 20th centuries."Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Os moradores de Belém e suas relações com a cidade: tessitura de uma cartografia comunicativa(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-04-12) KABUENGE, Nathan Nguangu; COSTA, Alda Cristina Silva da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2403055637349630A present thesis analyzed the narrative constructions that the residentes of Belém create about themselves, the other and Belém. Considering the imaginary constructions that are established among the residents of the capital of Pará, fear constitutes one of the tensions in the fabric of the narratives. The question was asked in the analysis: How does the cartography of Belém allow us to observe the communicative processes of constructing the self, the other and the city? The question instigated the search to find out how the residents of Belém understand themselves in a relationship between the self and the other. In contemporary times, understanding this I-Thou relationship is justified because this relationship has been configured as calculating, to the extent that it makes the other an It, and not the externalized self that is decisive in understanding human action. As a methodological approach, a communicative cartography was developed in order to weave together the meanings attributed by individuals to themselves and to others, as well as to the spaces they experience. Cartography was understood as a relationship of power, tensions and force in the negotiation of meanings and the control of space as a product of social practices and relationships. In this construction, 15 narrative interviews were conducted with residents of 14 neighborhoods in Belém, from January to October 2022. The analyzes of such interviews were inspired by the theoretical-methodological openings: Ricoeur's narrative-hermeneutics, and his explanations of the unfolding of mimesis I, II and III; Deleuze and Guattari's cartography; Buber's ontological dimension of the I-Thou relationship; and Lévinas' ethical dimension of the faceto-face relationship. From the interlocutors' stories about and from Belém, we identified how a general frame was formed, called the "affective frame", with ramifications in other frames: urban, socio-cultural and security. In the affective frame, residents map the city of Belém in an affective and personal way. In all the frames, Communicative experiences emerged that were categorized into three dimensions: a) in the city center - a strong relationship of communication as possibility or miscommunication; b) in the periphery, communication as dialogue; and c) in Belém as a whole - communication as a relationship of otherness. The results of the research pointed to a cartography of the relationships, affections, intensities, conflicts, disputes over meanings, resistance, territoriality, deterritoriality and reterritoriality, which the residentes of Belém live create daily to make the city a place of possibility, as this same place holds, at the same time, a feeling of security and danger, where there is wealth and poverty. Despite these problems, the residentes of Belém strive, through cultural manifestations, to vibrate together around the city.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Espetáculos Culturais Amazônicos: a festa como resistência e experiência estética(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-03-24) LIMA, Nair Santos; AMARAL FILHO, Otacílio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2605877670235703; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5467-8528The thesis deals with the Amazonian cultural festivals with an emphasis on cultural shows, which, over time, have been re-signified from their traditional places. The visibility of these events occurs through mediatization, a process obtained by the technological means of communication and enhanced by a model of globalization, which naturalizes them as a marketing product. In conducting the research, the difference between "Amazonian festivals", which are cultural manifestations within the scope of the Brazilian territory (Legal Amazon), and "Amazonian cultural festivals" - culminating with the "Amazonian cultural shows", which are those constituted of the aesthetic experience of the imaginary of these populations and, therefore, typical of the riverside or caboclo culture. It was noticed, even though the term “caboclo” has been reconfigured since the knowledge of these peoples revealed a unique importance in the cultural context and inserted in the academic spaces of the various sciences, consubstantiated, above all, in the idea of a specific Amazonian culture, of intrinsic characteristics of the Amazonian being, as well as the understanding of Amazonian researchers on the subject. The locus of enunciation takes place in the cities of Juruti and Santarém, in the state of Pará and in the city of Parintins, in Amazonas, whose corpus of analysis are the festival of the tribes, the festival of Sairé, and the folkloric festival of Parintins. Bibliographical research was the procedure that conducted all phases of this study and the analysis of the phenomenon is theoretically and methodologically based on semiotic conversion – mental activity of a symbolic nature produced by human thought and which acts in the production of new meanings. The corpus is based on three documentaries contemplated by the Aldir Blanc law referring to the three parties, however, other audiovisuals about the environment of the parties posted on YouTube, and selected by criteria of relevance, representativeness and participation of the organizers and/or “party makers”. served as support for the analysis. From this perspective, it is understood that the Amazonian cultural shows are means of expressiveness and resistance of a culture that operates as a form of communication, and that through the YouTube platform and languages of digital or mediatized communication, the place is transposed, gains visibility, profit and produces new meanings, whether through the re-establishment of belonging ties with the local culture or the ways of celebrating and being- together.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Comunicação, neoconservadorismo e reconhecimento: tensões, contradições e disputas acerca das noções de família no Brasil em ambientes de visibilidade ampliada(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-09-29) SEREJO, Elias Santos; LAGE, Danila Gentil Rodriguez Cal; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4593992869253877; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3243-8368The democratic crises and political ruptures marked by the 2016 coup, which polarized the public debate in Brazil, showed us that the notions of family have guided contemporary discussions, especially when tensioned from the advances in the struggles for recognition taken up by the LGBTQIA+ populations and of women, through the feminist gender debate. In different spaces, we were able to witness the mobilization of the concept of traditional, or nuclear, family, as a resource for coping with social changes arising from the visibility of other relationships and ways of being and living. At the same time, we also see in debate arenas the assertion that, as a historical-social construct, the family entity is mutable and diverse. In this context, we ask ourselves: what arguments are put forward in the public sphere to defend one or another way of dealing with the issue? And how do the media act in this context? These questions instigated this research. Our general objective in this work is to understand how the notions of family guide the contemporary political debate from the tensions arising from the action of social movements and the meanings produced about the family category in the media. Specifically, we want to a) Identify which senses/notions and arguments about family emerge in different communicational contexts; b) Identify which contemporary landmarks are decisive for the debate on families in the political agenda; c) Understand what notion of politics or democracy underlies discourses about families and what elements/characteristics/aspects of the family entity are in dispute; f) Understand how social movements from different political spectrums (conservatives and progressives) build their political agendas around the family category. For this, we focus on a theoretical framework to understand the elements that led to the rise of the extreme right in western democracies, the convenient partnership between neoconservatives and fundamentalist Christians, especially evangelicals, and the strength of neoliberalism operating as rationality in social relations. In addition, we seek to understand the role of the media in inserting themes for discussion in the public sphere and how social movements appropriate environments of increased visibility to reverberate their agendas. The corpus of analysis consists of texts published on the news portals O Globo and Estadão; and the content of progressive (ABRAFH and Aliança LGBTI+) and conservative (Instituto Plínio Corrêa Oliveira and Movimento de Defesa da Família) sites. To answer our questions, we developed a Content Analysis with technological support from the Iramuteq software, which helped us to systematize the data. For each dimension, we established categories based on the Descending Hierarchical Classification (CHD) derived from the Reinert Method, produced by the software. The categorization allowed us to understand the available arguments about families that deal with the defense of a rigid structure, which contributes to the maintenance of traditionality and an expanded notion of family.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Geração 60+ na internet : relações tecnológicas, tensões e produção de sentidos na pandemia de Covid-19(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-02-14) SIMÕES, Camila de Andrade; CUNHA, Elaide Martins da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3778190981135428; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7723-7055The study is interested in the relationships of people aged 60 or over with everyday technologies, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The reference years (2020 and 2021) are marked by a health crisis experienced worldwide, of undulating administration, with regard to Nation-States and, also, internally. In Brazil, physical distancing measures and hygiene guidelines have become a central issue and, in this context, digital communication technologies have taken on a previously unseen centrality. When considering groups of people who may have shown more evident distancing from connected screens, the research focuses on the experience of the elderly, as a starting point. This qualitative research departs from a communicational context to encompass the phenomenon of expanded social doing. Some of the theoretical fronts activated during the argument are in the field of aging (chronological and social), identities (generations), material culture, and power relations, starting from a set of meanings produced by the interlocutors of the research. As collection methods, the digital form and focus groups were used. With that, the Thematic Analysis (TA) showed a path of interest, with the necessary flexibility, in the search for speech patterns, paths of meanings, and senses produced by the investigated. To help with the task, the Iramuteq software was used on the fronts of statistical analyses, similarity, descending hierarchical classification, and presentation of word clouds. By opening up the range of findings, the initial concern about the heterogeneity of the experiences of older people is reinforced. Life, health, economic, and family conditions, for instance, will directly influence the so-called independence (more connected to physical issues) and the desired autonomy (decision-making; self-government). The main screen used was the cell phone to talk to family and friends. Among those who maintained active professional relationships during the verified period, it was possible to perceive a smaller field of friction. In general, the meanings that emerged from these relationships are paradoxical – they contain, roughly speaking, positive and negative points – and translated into technologies seen as access, a door to new learning and possibilities, at the same time as a set of spaces of danger, insecurity, and mystery, especially among those who used the term fear to refer to digital experiences.