O TRABALHO NA PANDEMIA: UMA ANÁLISE CRÍTICA DO DISCURSO MULTIMODAL DE WEBCOMICS

Abstract

Webcomics or online comics, comics published on the Internet, are a form of narrative that uses linguistic and imaginary resources to tell stories in which everyday scenes and their relations with the plurality of cultures and identities are recurrent themes. The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting social events brought about significant changes in various areas of society's daily life. One of them was work, which became remote for some people due to social isolation. However, according to gender, race, and class issues, these changes affected people differently. This research has its object of study webcomics broadcast on social networks that address the theme of work during the pandemic as the central theme. To this end, studies in Multimodality and Critical Discourse Analysis were used, based on concepts and categories of analysis of the Grammar of Visual Design of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), as well as the three-dimensional model proposed by Fairclough (2015 [1989], 1995) and intersectionality studies (AKOTIRENE, 2019; CRENSHAW, 1991; COLLINS; BILGE, 2016). Through the multimodal resources used in webcomics, it was possible to discuss representations about work in the pandemic. Furthermore, the importance of critical reading for our society was highlighted, primarily through multi-tooling practices, to enable people to become increasingly aware of the way specific texts build particular representations from varied semiotic resources. The results indicate that, through webcomics, it was possible to represent aspects of remote and face-to-face work realities, taking into account intersectional elements, such as race, gender, and class, revealing how the covid-19 pandemic did not reach everyone in the same way.