Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2020 Nov 23;36(11):e00223120. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00223120. eCollection 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the sanitary measures of social distance brought impasses to Social Research and its future. Research in digital environments was already booming, but now that face-to-face activities are temporarily suspended, it becomes an alternative to enable the continuity of studies. Understanding it better is an epistemological and methodological need for all researchers. Thus, the objective of this essay is to propose some theoretical and methodological considerations on qualitative research in the different digital environments formed by the Internet 2.0. We point out some introductory aspects and tensions considered strategic for those who are going to start their work in social networks supported by the Internet. We organized the article based on the following topics: (1) digital sociality; (2) the "digital environment" and the blurring of boundaries between real-virtual; (3) the redefinition of the meaning of "field" in the digital environment; (4) the different cultural uses of digital platforms; (5) platforms as producers of discursive genres; (6) the production and extraction of collections. The essay seeks to demonstrate that research in digital environments reveals an exponential field of possibilities, whether to explore the forms that this sociality assumes in our daily lives, or to modulate our (inter)subjectivities, as it allows the production of identity narratives and performances, associations for different purposes, among many other possibilities. However, it demands an understanding of social action based on the synergy of the socio-technical-cultural contexts that structure it.
新冠疫情和社交距离的卫生措施给社会研究及其未来带来了阻碍。数字环境中的研究已经蓬勃发展，但现在面对面的活动暂时停止，它成为了一种能够使研究继续进行的替代方式。更好地理解它是所有研究人员在认识论和方法论上的需要。因此，本文的目的是提出一些关于互联网 2.0 所形成的不同数字环境中的定性研究的理论和方法上的考虑。我们指出了一些初步的方面和被认为是对那些将要开始在互联网支持的社交网络中工作的人具有战略意义的紧张关系。我们根据以下主题组织了文章：（1）数字社会性；（2）“数字环境”和真实-虚拟之间界限的模糊化；（3）数字环境中“场”的意义的重新定义；（4）数字平台的不同文化用途；（5）平台作为话语体裁的生产者；（6）收藏的制作和提取。本文旨在表明，数字环境中的研究揭示了一个指数级的可能性领域，无论是探索这种社会性在我们日常生活中所采取的形式，还是调节我们的（相互）主体性，因为它允许生产身份叙事和表现、为不同目的而结成的协会等许多其他可能性。然而，它需要基于构成它的社会技术文化背景的协同作用来理解社会行动。
