Open AccessNarratives about the internet of things: an exploratory study of the articles published in Folha online between 2011 and 2016
Author(s) -
André Lemos,
Daniel Marques,
Elias Cunha Bitencourt
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
intexto
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1807-8583
DOI - 10.19132/1807-8583201947.139-165
Subject(s) - internet of things , narrative , humanities , art , computer science , world wide web , literature
The article describes how the Brazilian media shows the Internet of Things. The corpus is composed of 165 texts of Folha de São Paulo published online between 2011 and 2016. A data scraping tool was developed to extract the texts, which were analyzed using Atlas.ti. As criterion of analysis, we sought to identify the most cited objects, the qualities attributed to them, as well as the most recurrent IoT definitions. We also observed the main themes found in the texts and the judgment implied by the articles. We conclude that IoT is defined by the connectivity between intelligent objects, linked to technical and economic issues and to the imaginary of the future. These objects work mostly in the residential, health and transportation areas. Privacy issues still do not dominate the discussions.