ACADEMIC DIALOGUES, DIGITAL INTERACTIONS

Abstract

This paper, inserted in the problematic of socio-semiotics, discusses learning or knowledge building from the perspective of what this theoretical approach conceives as adjustment scheme. From a problematization on the modes of interaction between subjects, mediated or not by objects, we analyze the interactions that take place in the virtual space produced by mobilizing two digital genres: of the forum, considering the participation of students in an presencial undergraduate course, and the “chat” in two different sessions at an online academic event. The analysis points to the possibility of thinking about knowledge in a procedural and dynamic perspective, with the introduction of more symmetrical interactions, with collaborative contruction, in what knowledge is produced with the effect of joint involvement. Finally, this paper intends to point to uses of digital tools with implications for pedagogical practice.