Blog PROERD no sertão: letramento e ação social

Abstract

This study consists of the analyses of literacy events and practices in an anti-drug public policy context, more precisely with research locus formed by the operation of military police officers from PROERD (Educational Program of Resistance to Drugs). The aforementioned trainers perform actions intended to prevent licit and illicit drug abuse, as well as divulge their actions, initiatives and prevention campaigns through actions’ reports in a virtual operating network. Therefore, the object of study are the posts from the blog “PROERD no Sertão” (PROERD in the backlands) created by military police officers from the region of Seridó/RN. In virtual domain, it contemplates posts of the actions developed along with students from Elementary public schools and community, with a view to direct attention to the prevention of licit and illicit drug use and abuse. The study aims to analyze the literacy events and practices implemented by PROED officers in respect to the productions and publishing of posts in the referred blog. In theoretical terms, it is based on the pressupositions of Literacy Studies as social practice (BARTON; HAMILTON, 1993, 1998, 2000; KLEIMAN, 1995, 2008; STREET, 1984; OLIVEIRA, 2008, 2010; ROJO, 2009), on genre theory (OLIVEIRA, 2010; BRONCKART, 2004, 2006), on studies of elements of linguistic, schematic and pragmatic dimension (KOCH; FÁVERO, 1987), on studies about multimodality (KRESS and VAN LEEUWEN, 2006 [1996]; DIONÍSIO, 2006; SANTAELLA, 2012; ALMEIDA, 2011), on concepts of agency (BANDURA, 2001), hypertext and hypermedia (NOJOSA, 2007; KOMESU 2004; GOMES, 2010; KARWOSKY, 2012; FERRARI, 2007), as well as on fundamentals which have language and work as theme (SOUZA and SILVA, 2002; DUARTE; FEITOSA, 1998; PAZ, 2008, 2010). Methodologically, this investigation inserts into the Applied Linguistics field (MOITA-LOPES, 1996, 2006; PENNYCOOK, 2006) and follows a qualitative approach, bearing descriptive research characteristics (MOREIRA; CALEFFE, 2006; BOGDAN; BIKLEN, 1994; MINAYO, 2010; CHIZZOTTI, 2005). Data generation was developed through standard techniques (GIL, 1994) which comprise interviews and questionnaires and enable the “intersection” or triangulation of information (COX; ASSIS-PETERSON, 2001). Data discussion converge to the revisitation of categories (elements and components) proposed by Hamilton (2000), when analyzing literacy events and practices, as well as the focalization of vertical (tele-reality, cyberculture) and horizontal (living/tele-living; local/global; geographical/electronic space) movements that are evoked in hyperdomain (cyberspace, blogsphere). The relevance of this study lies in the fact of bringing specific topics from the work domain to the academic realm, more specifically from the public security policy with a view to contribute to the expansion of Literacy Studies. Equally, the social importance of this study is significant due to the academic visibility it provides for the collaborators, depicting them as potential agents of public security, able to make social changes in terms of instrumental and communicative or symbolic action (MAGALHÃES, 1994). This makes the practice of writing posts a self-conscious and reflexive action, even amid the contradictions of the social processes, which hamper the full effectuation of Anti-drug Public Policies in Brazil.