O impacto e as contribuições do whatsapp na comunicação de surdos no ambiente educacional

Abstract

This article investigates the influence and impacts that technologies have caused in the deaf community of UFT in Porto Nacional/TO. For this, a search was made of bibliographic sources on the topic of study; analysis of videos of deaf conversations conducted by whatsapp; research on how deaf people relate to this application in their daily lives; observation of variations from standard sign language to that performed in the virtual environment. A group of deaf people was created from which we obtained the research material. After analyzing the data, it was found that the deaf use WhatsApp a lot to communicate and to interact in the educational environment, being a great resource to be used in teaching; there was a variation in the pattern of sign language for that used in whatsapp. With these results, we understand that this work contributes to the debate on the use of the cell phone in the education of the deaf and to the record of the changes that have occurred in the linguistics of libras.