"THE COMMENTS THAT WERE VALID": LITERACY PRACTICES AND HETERONORMATIVITY IN SOCIAL NETWORK

Abstract

We aim to build an understanding of how literacy practices are potent for producing positionings on the social world, based on the analysis of comments published in a social network. Considering the situationality of the literacy event in vogue - the comments of an education journal thematizing issues of gender and sexuality - we also intend to analyze how heteronormativity is justified or maintained as an epistemic frame in the positioning of the enunciators of the comments. As a result, we point out that the comments are based more on the reading of previous comments than the artifact published in itself, and religiosity presents itself as an episteme evoked to justify conservative positions that deny other forms of living the social world that do not in the heteronormative order. We conclude with some challenges that are put in the field of education and language studies.