Digital nomads: in search of communities, from the almanac to social media

  • Luciana Salles Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
  • Marlon Barbosa Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2021.n46a464
Keywords: Almanac, social networks, communication, digital communities, homo digitalis

Abstract

This text intends to present and analyze a certain pilgrimage of the form and content of the almanac that, historically, takes on new thematic outlines over time, preserving from its ancient traditions almost only the encyclopedic, informative character and the temporal perspective of seasonal publication timeline, such as the yearbook. The objective is to demonstrate that the almanac works as a vehicle for bringing together communities and, for that very reason, as a builder of a community – for the algorithmic generation of bubbles and patterns of living and consumption. With different experiences, communication systems like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram seem to configure the technological version corresponding to the manakh of our days. Each of these networks works as a space where we gather around individual experiences and information around increasingly specific themes and interests. They are places of discourse and language that enable the construction of dialogues, meetings, entire communities formed by subjects of an infinite nomadism who walk restlessly in search of possibilities of knowledge and communion.

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Author Biographies

Luciana Salles, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

É professora de Literatura Portuguesa na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), onde realizou seu Mestrado em Poética e Doutorado em Literatura Portuguesa. É membro do Pólo de Pesquisas Literárias Luso-Brasileiras do Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (PLLB/ RGPL) e coordenadora do Grupo de Estudos Interdisciplinares: Linguagens, Mídia e Cultura Pop (UFRJ / CNPq).

Marlon Barbosa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Possui Doutorado e Mestrado em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Literatura da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ. Foi professor substituto de Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada (2016 até 2017) e Literatura Portuguesa (2019 até 2021) da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ. Atualmente é membro da Comissão Editorial e revisor da Revista Mulemba (Qualis A4).

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Capa da Convergência Lusíana 46
Published
2021-10-09
How to Cite
Salles, L., & Barbosa, M. . (2021). Digital nomads: in search of communities, from the almanac to social media. Converência Lusíada, 32(46), 324-338. https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2021.n46a464
Issue
Vol. 32 No. 46 (2021): The almanac: from nineteenth-century periodicals to Facebook
Section
DOSSIER

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