A/o psicóloga/o está online: um estudo sobre o uso das rso na atualidade

Abstract

Psychology in Brazil became a recognized profession in 1962 and since then has become increasingly important in the national context. Its dissemination takes place through social discourse, developed institutions and the Brazilian media, a channel that is present in the proliferation of information and that has undergone changes since 1991. The advent of the World Wide Web, created in 1991, brought with it a modern wave of proliferation of Online Social Networks – RSO. The amount of material stored and the networks' dissemination potential exceeded the capacity of televised content for decades. In this way, RSO produce a new form of relationship between individuals, and the psychologist is also inserted in this field, whether as a user of RSO, as a content producer or having other forms of relationship with this space. Given the above, study 1 (Chapter 3) aimed to understand how RSO is used in the field of psychology. Therefore, a search was carried out in the Scielo, IndexPsi, Lilacs, PepSic and PsycInfo databases using descriptors organized as follows: "Online Social Media OR Social Media AND Psychology OR psychologist" and “Online Social Networks OR Social Networks AND Psychology OR Psychologist" A total of 3,918 studies were found, and after being analyzed, 71 studies were selected that met the research inclusion criteria. As a result, it was clear that the field of psychology has been using RSO since 2011. the production of studies on RSO Orkut; later, the articles are carried out with the help of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The materials found have a qualitative and quantitative approach, with a predominance of qualitative methodologies. of psychology, modifying the ways of social life and, consequently, reaching its subjectivity. This brings challenges to the actions of psychology today, both in relation to the positioning of the field and in relation to discussions about technologies and RSO in the academic field. . Given this, study 2 (Chapter 4) of this dissertation sought to understand what content was published by psychology professionals on RSO Instagram in accordance with CFP guidelines. Captions from 10 publications were collected, based on the profile selection criteria. The text with subtitles was transformed into a textual corpus that was analyzed with the help of the Iramuteq software, resulting in 5 classes with content related to how to take care of children's development, tips on how to have a healthy, authentic life, and tips on self-care. The published content did not present scientific references to the field of psychology, and ethical non-conformities were observed in relation to the presentation of professionals in RSO. This points to the need for broad discussions about the use of RSO in the field of psychology, whether professionally or in the training field.