Process of meaning and multisensory construction in the initial education of Letters students.
Affection; Multisensory; Construction of meanings; Digital Languages and Technologies; Public university.
This qualitative research, with characteristics of the epistemology of emergence and netnography, aimed to analyze the encounters between second-year students of the Letters course at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul - UEMS and a variety of texts in remote classes of Digital Languages and Technologies. It also sought to investigate the effects of meanings produced by these encounters between students and the different texts that circulate on social media. The work was based on studies from a multisensory and affective perspective, addressing sensory literacies, affection and the concepts of meaning and feeling (MILLS, 2016, 2013; MORGAN, ROCHA and MACIEL, 2021; OTT, 2017; DELEUZE and GUATTARI, 1995; AHMED, MORGAN and MACIEL, 2021; PEREIRA and MACIEL, 2019, among other authors). The survey was conducted during the month of September 2021. Data collection took place through video and/or audio recording of online classes, specifically during student presentations (seminars), in addition to their productions and the the researcher's field diary. The analysis consisted of the investigation and description of emerging aspects (MACIEL, 2016; SOMERVILLE, 2007) throughout the investigated process, taking into account genuine, spontaneous and natural interactions (KOZINETS, 2010; CORRÊA and ROZADOS, 2017). This work contributed to the resignification of the conception of how meanings are constructed and can emerge, considering an embodied and affective dimension both in theory and in practice of democracy in the classroom and in society in general. The study resulted in the reflection about language in connection with the cognitive and emotional in order to expand the perspectives of knowledge construction.