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Reflective practice serves as a vital area of teacher education and the impetus for professional development among pre-service teachers. Past research has lamented the lack of critical thought of the reflection made by pre-service teachers during their teaching practice. This paper presents a qualitative investigation into the use of video logs (vlogs), which are mediated online. The participants of the study comprised 13 pre-service ESL teachers studying in an Institute of Teacher Education. The data for this study was gathered via the analysis of the vlogs and the focus group interview. Results indicate that the respondents expressed mixed reactions to the approach, where some have enjoyed the experience while some feared of being judged and feeling awkward seeing themselves in vlogs. Most respondents have centered their reflections on issues they encountered during lessons, but one has shown the ability to reflect on issues beyond the classroom setting. The outcome of the study implied the need for pre-service teachers to be given additional coaching on the ‘how’ aspect of reflection. In addition, there is a need to address technical issues faced by respondents in using vlogs, as this can impede the reflecting experience and frequency of vlogs and comments posted by the participants.

[ES] En este trabajo fin de máster (TFM) se desarrolla una propuesta basada en el uso de vídeos blogs o vlogs para la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la lengua china. El objetivo es presentar los vlogs como herramienta digital para desarrollar la competencia lingüística en chino de hispanohablantes. Para ello, los aprendientes experimentan un canal de YouTube dedicado a la enseñanza de chino como lengua extranjera cuyo contenido son vlogs creados por el autor de este trabajo. La metodología seguida investiga el uso de esta herramienta en las clases de lenguas. Para ello, se fundamenta en el pase de encuestas y en la realización de una entrevista para recoger las opiniones del profesorado y del alumnado hispanohablante. Los datos mixtos recolectados son, por consiguiente, tanto cualitativos como cuantitativos. Se explican también las herramientas utilizadas y cómo se ha creado el canal en la plataforma de YouTube. La propuesta pedagógica presenta los vlogs diseñados y analiza sus contenidos. Asimismo, propone una guía pedagógica como complemento para el profesorado para facilitar la implementación de los vlogs creados en el aula de chino. Los resultados de este trabajo muestran que la utilidad de los videoblogs, como complemento a las metodologías tradicionales chinas, puede ser significativo para promover el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en la enseñanza de lenguas, difundir la cultura china, así como trabajar las competencias transversales y contribuir a la formación integral del alumnado., [EN] This Master's work develops a proposal based on the use of video blogs or vlogs for teaching and learning Chinese. The objective is to present vlogs as a digital tool to develop the linguistic competence of Spanish speakers in Chinese. To this end, learners experience a YouTube channel dedicated to the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language whose contents are vlogs created by the author. The methodology followed investigates the use of this tool in language classes. Therefore, it is based on a survey and an interview to gather the opinions of teachers and Spanish-speaking students. Therefore, the mixed data collected are both qualitative and quantitative. It is mentioned that what types of the teaching tools have been used and how the channel has been created on the YouTube platform. The pedagogical proposal presents the design of vlogs and analyses their contents. It also proposes a pedagogical guide as a complement for teachers to facilitate the implementation of the vlogs created in the Chinese classroom. The results of this work show that the use of videoblogs, as a complement to traditional Chinese methodologies, is significant to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in language teaching, to disseminate Chinese culture, as well as to work on transversal competences, to contribute to the comprehensive education of students.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the actual online television and online media form of interactive transmission - interview-confrontation. On the basis of the analysis of the most popular programs based on this type of interview, we determine its genre identity, functional and compositional features, analyze the specifics of the questions. Relied on the content analysis method, the comparative-typological and historical-functional methods, conclusions are drawn about the widespread representation of interview confrontations both on traditional TV and in the sphere of network video blogging. It is emphasized that the peculiarity of the announcement of the topic in the interview is in focusing the negative attitude of the host to the position of the respondent, which is also reflected in the main part in confrontational, concretizing, programming, provocative and other forms of questions.

Статья посвящена анализу столкновения исторических нарративов на примере дискуссии о фильме Ю. Дудя "Колыма - родина нашего страха", развернувшейся в сетевых сообществах. Рассматриваются особенности социальных медиа как инструмента формирования исторической памяти. The article is devoted to the analysis of the clash of historical narratives on the example of the discussion of the film by Yu. Dud' "Kolyma - Birthplace of Our Fear" held in network communities. The purpose of this article is to analyze the specific features of social media as a tool for the formation of historical memory.

Работа выполнена в теоретико-методологическом жанре. Основной замысел статьи связан с проведением аналитической ревизии и систематизации итогов научных исследований, посвященных теме интереса российской молодежи к контенту политических видеоблогов. Текущая исследовательская практика в этой области противоречива. С одной стороны, исследователи регулярно пишут о превращении видеоблогов в один из ключевых каналов формирования общественного мнения молодежи по политическим вопросам. С другой стороны, в науке отсутствует устоявшееся понимание причин, которые могли сформировать острый интерес молодежи к подобным видеоблогам. Представленная работа нацелена на преодоление этого концептуального противоречия. Обращаясь к ревизии актуальной исследовательской литературы, автор стремится выявить и систематизировать перечень основных гипотез о причинах интереса российской молодежи к политическим видеоблогам, получивших наибольшее распространение в академической социологии.

Purpose: Nutrition care guidelines for the transgender population do not exist, despite significant nutrition-related clinical and psychosocial considerations. Social networking sites (SNSs) provide multidirectional communication and have expanded in popularity among transgender users as a resource for health information and support. The nature of the content shared among the online transgender community is unknown, but may suggest the nutrition-related areas that are of most importance to the transgender population. The objective of this qualitative netnography was to describe the food and nutrition messages shared among the transgender community using video blogs (vlogs) on the SNS, YouTube. Methods: Public vlogs were assessed using the constant comparative method. Pseudoquantitative methods were used to capture the prevalence of each subtheme; quotes were documented verbatim. Data were collected from transgender users' public vlogs (n=30) self-published on YouTube from 2013 to 2018. Results: Six major themes were generated from the data analysis. These included the following: functions of diet and exercise; diet and exercise philosophies; “how to” vlogs; advice for success; using dietary supplements; and effects of hormone therapy. Conclusions: Nutrition-related messages are widely shared among the online transgender community through YouTube. The identified themes reflect topics of interest and expressed needs of transgender individuals. SNSs provide health care providers with a platform to improve patient education and health literacy. Health care providers may actively engage in online discussions to build trust, answer questions, and provide a source of accurate and evidence-based information.

Automatic prediction of personalities from meeting videos is a classical machine learning problem. Psychologists define personality traits as uncorrelated long-term characteristics of human beings. However, human annotations of personality traits introduce cultural and cognitive bias. In this study, we present methods to automatically predict emergent leadership and personality traits in the group meeting videos of the Emergent LEAdership corpus. Prediction of extraversion has attracted the attention of psychologists as it is able to explain a wide range of behaviors, predict performance, and assess risk. Prediction of emergent leadership, on the other hand, is of great importance for the business community. Therefore, we focus on the prediction of extraversion and leadership since these traits are also strongly manifested in a meeting scenario through the extracted features. We use feature analysis and multi-task learning methods in conjunction with the non-verbal features and crowd-sourced annotations from the Video bLOG (VLOG) corpus to perform a multi-domain and multi-task prediction of personality traits. Our results indicate that multi-task learning methods using 10 personality annotations as tasks and with a transfer from two different datasets from different domains improve the overall recognition performance. Preventing negative transfer by using a forward task selection scheme yields the best recognition results with 74.5% accuracy in leadership and 81.3% accuracy in extraversion traits. These results demonstrate the presence of annotation bias as well as the benefit of transferring information from weakly similar domains.

Orientador: Cristiane Pereira Dias Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Resumo: A internet tem sido apontada como promissora para a criação de uma divulgação científica mais participativa e horizontal à medida que grande parte da população brasileira já permanece conectada durante a maior parte do tempo. No online, a posição-sujeito especialista deixa de ser a mais recorrente à medida que outros sujeitos e outros efeitos de sentido passam a circular. Desse modo, as ditas "ciências alternativas" parecem concorrer com a ciência institucionalizada. Muitos dos vídeos que agora circulam na plataforma do YouTube, por exemplo, são utilizados para promover teorias conspiratórias que podem trazer riscos à sociedade. Nesse processo de determinação, a contraposição entre ciência de "verdade" e falsa ciência atualiza os sentidos do que pode/deve ser um cientista. Este trabalho objetiva compreender o imaginário sobre a ciência por meio da análise de diferentes textos em circulação em plataformas como o YouTube, o Twitter e o Facebook e em mídias variadas, visto que o recorte apresentado nesta pesquisa recupera parte das condições de produção em que esse imaginário se dá. Para estudar esse material, a perspectiva teórica adotada é a Análise de Discurso de Escola Francesa, que permite uma análise aprofundada para a compreensão de como se constituem os efeitos de sentido que os textos produzem e que circulam entre os sujeitos. Construção de um imaginário que textualiza a ciência como solução, missão e salvação e onde o cientista se constitui principalmente nas posições sujeito cientista-herói e cientista-guardião Abstract: The internet has been described as a promise to the creation of a more participative and horizontal science communication as most of the Brazilian population already spend most of their time connected. Online, the subject-position expert is no longer the most recurrent one as other subjects and effects of meaning can circulate. Thus, the said "alternative sciences" start to compete with the institutionalized science. Several videos that now circulate on YouTube's platform, for instance, are used to promote conspiratory theories that may bring risks to the society. In this determination process, the oppositeness of "real" science and fake science updates the meanings of what may/should be a scientist. This study aims to understand the imaginary about science analyzing different texts in platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other media, since the materials of this research recover part of the conditions of production in which this imaginary occurs. To study these materials, I adopted the theoretical perspective of the French School of Discourse Analysis, which allows a deep analysis to the comprehension of how the effects of meaning that the texts produce are constituted, and how these effects circulate between the subjects. An imaginary that establishes science as solution, mission, and salvation, and where the scientist is seen as scientist-hero and scientist-guardian Mestrado Divulgação Científica e Cultural Mestra em Divulgação Científica e Cultural CAPES 1686033

Orientador: Petrilson Alan Pinheiro da Silva Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Resumo: O presente trabalho se propõe a discutir a presença do discurso publicitário em vlogs do YouTube e o modo como esta fusão, sem uma marcação clara que a tipifique como propaganda, possibilita que a propaganda, por meio da figura dos influenciadores digitais, permeie as práticas na web 2.0 sem que haja uma leitura crítica de seus conteúdos. Para tal reflexão, a análise do corpus selecionado dentre vídeos de grande relevância no YouTube será feita a partir da discussão sobre a Era do Multissinóptico (PINHEIRO, 2011) em contraste com a era sinóptica, assim como das reflexões sobre a convergência midiática visualizada hoje na sociedade ocidenal. A discussão teórico-analítica para compreender a produção e circulação destes vlogs se dará por meio dos estudos relacionados à Multimodalidade, à Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional e à Sociossemiótica (Kress, 2009; Van Leeuwen 1996; Mathiessen e Halliday, 2014 e Lima-Lopes 2012). A metodologia adotada consiste na análise multimodal da plataforma YouTube e, especificamente, das diferenças entre os espaços publicitários oficializados pela plataforma e os espaços não oficiais, como, por exemplo, a produção de vídeos por meio dos influenciadores digitais. A análise e discussão acerca de três vídeos selecionados de acordo com os parâmetros expressos no Capítulo Metodológico busca compreender: quais são as estratégias dos próprios youtubers para valorizarem um discurso publicitário como um discurso pessoal, quais valores éticos e sociais estão envolvidos na comercialização da opinião a maneira como os multiletramentos escolares podem envolver-se na discussão crítica e na construção do sujeito criticamente posicionado frente às demandas do capital e da sociedade líquida moderna Abstract: The present work proposes to discuss the presence of advertising speech in YouTube vlogs and the way in which this merger, without a clear mark that defines it as advertising, making possible for advertising, through the figure of the digital influencers, to permeate the practices in the web 2.0 without a critical reading of its contents. For this reflection, the analysis of the selected corpus among videos of great relevance in YouTube will be made from the discussion about the Multisynoptic Era (PINHEIRO, 2011) in contrast to the synoptic era, as well as from the reflections on the media convergence visualized today in society. The theoretical-analytical discussion to understand the production and circulation of these vlogs will be through studies related to Multimodality, Systemic-Functional Grammar and Sociosemiotics (Kress, 2009; Van Leeuwen 1996; Mathiessen and Halliday, 2014 and Lima-Lopes 2012 ). The methodology adopted consists on the multimodal analysis of the YouTube platform and, specifically, of the differences between the advertising spaces officialized by the platform and the unofficial spaces, such as the production of videos through digital influencers. The analysis and discussion about three videos selected according to the parameters expressed in the Methodological Chapter seeks to understand: what are the strategies of the own youtubers to value an advertising discourse as a personal discourse, what ethical and social values are involved in the commercialization of opinion to how school multiletrations can be involved in the critical discussion and construction of the subject critically positioned against the demands of capital and modern liquid society Mestrado Linguagem e Educação Mestra em Linguística Aplicada CAPES 1616832

The prevalent “share what's on your mind” paradigm of social media can be examined from the perspective of mood: short-term affective states revealed by the shared data. This view takes on new relevance given the emergence of conversational social video as a popular genre among viewers looking for entertainment and among video contributors as a channel for debate, expertise sharing, and artistic expression. From the perspective of human behavior understanding, in conversational social video both verbal and nonverbal information is conveyed by speakers and decoded by viewers. We present a systematic study of classification and ranking of mood impressions in social video, using vlogs from YouTube. Our approach considers eleven natural mood categories labeled through crowdsourcing by external observers on a diverse set of conversational vlogs. We extract a comprehensive number of nonverbal and verbal behavioral cues from the audio and video channels to characterize the mood of vloggers. Then we implement and validate vlog classification and vlog ranking tasks using supervised learning methods. Following a reliability and correlation analysis of the mood impression data, our study demonstrates that, while the problem is challenging, several mood categories can be inferred with promising performance. Furthermore, multimodal features perform consistently better than single-channel features. Finally, we show that addressing mood as a ranking problem is a promising practical direction for several of the mood categories studied.

We present a data-driven approach to discover different styles that people use to present themselves in online video blogging (vlogging). By vlogging style, we denote the combination of conscious and unconscious choices that the vlogger made during the production of the vlog, affecting the video quality, appearance, and structure. A compact set of vlogging styles is discovered using clustering methods based on a fast and robust spatio-temporal descriptor to characterize the visual activity in a vlog. On 2268 YouTube vlogs, our results show that the vlogging styles are differentiated with respect to the vloggers' level of editing and conversational activity in the video. Furthermore, we show that these automatically discovered styles relate to vloggers with different personality trait impressions and to vlogs that receive different levels of social attention.

Orientador: Suzy Maria Lagazzi Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Resumo: Mediante a relação entre significante, sujeito e história, a Análise de Discurso Materialista, aporte teórico e metodológico da pesquisa proposta, confronta-se constantemente com o material analítico para compreender a linguagem no movimento do social. A teoria somente se realiza perante os procedimentos de análise de um objeto específico, que nesta investigação é delimitado como: os discursos sobre o eu na composição autoral dos vlogs, vídeos do YouTube caracterizados como ritual de linguagem em que o sujeito, ao (se) textualizar no espaço digital, mexe com as relações estabilizadas de privacidade, com o outro e com os sentidos de autoria. Além de estudos sobre o discurso, tendo Michel Pêcheux e Eni Orlandi como expoentes da área, a pesquisa recorreu aos trabalhos específicos sobre a imbricação de diferentes materialidades significantes (Suzy Lagazzi), sobre o funcionamento contemporâneo do digital (Solange Gallo e Cristiane Dias), sobre o direito a partir de umas perspectiva crítico-marxista (Bernard Edelman, Márcio Naves e Celso Kashiura), além de um embasamento materialista ancorado em Louis Althusser. Com o objetivo de analisar o(s) discurso(s) sobre o `eu¿ na composição autoral dos vlogs, os procedimentos se guiam pela pergunta Que gestos de interpretação sobre o `eu¿ são suscitados no encontro entre a formulação significante no espaço digital de leitura do vlog e o sujeito que publiciza o que é representado como particular? O dispositivo analítico construído tem como suporte a compreensão dos vlogs como um lugar de dizer funcionando no espaço digital e atravessado por fronteiras tênues na criação de laços equívocos com o social na imbricação do simbólico com o político Abstract: Upon the relation between significant, subject and history, Materialistic Discourse Analysis ¿ theoretical and methodological framework of the present research ¿ confronts itself perennially with the analytical material in order to understand language in the movement of the social. The theory only takes place when it is in front of the analytical procedures of a specific object, which, in this investigation, it may be identified as: the discourses about the self in the authorial composition of vlogs, YouTube videos characterized as a language ritual in which the subject, as he texts (himself) in digital space, affects the stabled relations of privacy, the other and the meanings of authorship. Besides the exponent authors of discourse studies ¿ namely Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi ¿, the research also consulted specific works about the imbrication of different significant materialities (Suzy Lagazzi), about the contemporary functioning of the digital (Solange Gallo and Cristiane Dias), about the law from a critical-Marxist perspective (Bernard Edelman, Márcio Naves and Celso Kashiura), in addition to a materialistic background supported by Louis Althusser. Aiming to analyze the discourse(s) about the 'self' in the authorial composition of vlogs, the procedures are driven by the question Which interpretation gestures about the 'self' are mobilized in the confluence between the significant formulation in the digital space of the vlog reading and the subject that publicizes what is represented as particular? The analytical framework is built on the support of comprehending vlogs as a place of saying that runs in digital space and is crossed by tenuous frontiers as creating equivocal ties with the social in the imbrication of symbolical and political Doutorado Lingüística Doutor em Linguística CAPES 3902-13-7

Despite an increasing interest in understanding human perception in social media through the automatic analysis of users' personality, existing attempts have explored user profiles and text blog data only. We approach the study of personality impressions in social media from the novel perspective of crowdsourced impressions, social attention, and audiovisual behavioral analysis on slices of conversational vlogs extracted from YouTube. Conversational vlogs are a unique case study to understand users in social media, as vloggers implicitly or explicitly share information about themselves that words, either written or spoken cannot convey. In addition, research in vlogs may become a fertile ground for the study of video interactions, as conversational video expands to innovative applications. In this work, we first investigate the feasibility of crowdsourcing personality impressions from vlogging as a way to obtain judgements from a variate audience that consumes social media video. Then, we explore how these personality impressions mediate the online video watching experience and relate to measures of attention in YouTube. Finally, we investigate on the use of automatic nonverbal cues as a suitable lens through which impressions are made, and we address the task of automatic prediction of vloggers' personality impressions using nonverbal cues and machine learning techniques. Our study, conducted on a dataset of 442 YouTube vlogs and 2210 annotations collected in Amazon's Mechanical Turk, provides new findings regarding the suitability of collecting personality impressions from crowdsourcing, the types of personality impressions that emerge through vlogging, their association with social attention, and the level of utilization of nonverbal cues in this particular setting. In addition, it constitutes a first attempt to address the task of automatic vlogger personality impression prediction using nonverbal cues, with promising results.