Narrativas do eu em vídeo: YouTube e os diários para compartilhar

Abstract

The main purpose of this dissertation is to understand how the personal narrative built by a YouTuber who proposes to share his experiences of life is presented on the Internet, using as an example the YouTube channel "Ariel Modara". This channel was created by a young man in order to document his process of gender transition. We notice in his videos on YouTube that he starts to identify himself as a trans man and begin to share videos documenting different stages of his hormone therapy. Using the Audiovisual Materiality Analysis as our main method of analysis, we seek to present the main characteristics of this type of narrative and what elements Ariel uses to present his stories. To accomplish that, we selected 12 videos posted on his channel that could provide topics related to the hormone therapy, presented to his audience as personal statements. With those skills, we wish to verify some axes that could suffer modifications throughout the online narrative, such as Ariel himself, themes brought by him and the scenario shown in his videos. We also wanted to look at eventual visual and sound elements he would use to empower his message, such as intro openings or background music.