Entre ciberespaço e cibercultura: análise cultural da relação comunicativa de professores e alunos no ambiente virtual Moodle

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the communicative relationship between teachers and students in the Moodle virtual environment in the UFTM environment, how the communicative process occurs in the virtual environment as a cyberspace, which is a new means of communication for the dissemination of ideas and enabling new ways of communication and knowledge acquisition. The general objective of this work is to analyze whether the Moodle virtual environment is processed as cyberculture in the process of knowledge construction in the UFTM environment. The methodology used in the development of the research will be cultural analysis, as a method of investigation of communicative processes, and based on the centrality of the subject in social practices. From the analysis of the teachers interviews, the analysis of the students participation in the disciplines, the structure of the virtual environment, it is concluded that the Moodle virtual environment, among its weaknesses and potentialities, is a space that has the potential to provide communication, interaction and engagement, with the potential to configure itself as cyberculture, as it offers several functionalities and possibilities to promote the construction of knowledge. The proposal of the dissertation analysis is to contribute, in the future, to a reformulation of Moodle that instigates cyberculture.