Mediação Computacional da Espiritualidade Evangélica: tensões e reconfigurações sociotécnicas
Resumo
Tecnologias digitais reconfiguram práticas em domínios sensíveis como a espiritualidade cristã. No contexto evangélico, artefatos tecnoespirituais medeiam rotinas e oferecem suporte. Este artigo investiga as implicações sociais e éticas dessa mediação, por meio do método de story completion com 45 participantes evangélicos brasileiros. As narrativas foram analisadas via Análise Temática Reflexiva. Os resultados evidenciam que tais artefatos atuam como facilitadores, mas introduzem riscos de dependência e deslocamento da autoridade espiritual, negociados pelo discernimento espiritual. O trabalho contribui ao enquadrar a espiritualidade como domínio sociotécnico moralmente denso, onde escolhas de design moldam práticas, autoridade e cuidado.Referências
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Blythe, M. and Buie, E. (2021). Designs on transcendence: Sketches of a tx machine. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction, 15:1–131.
Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3:77–101.
Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2013). Successful qualitative research: A practical guide for beginners. Sage.
Claisse, C. and Durrant, A. C. (2023). ‘keeping our faith alive’: Investigating buddhism practice during covid-19 to inform design for the online community practice of faith. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–19. ACM.
Clarke, V., Braun, V., Frith, H., and Moller, N. (2019). Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16:1–20.
de Souza, C. S. (2005). The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction. MIT Press.
de Souza, C. S. and Leitão, C. F. (2009). Semiotic engineering methods for scientific research in hci. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, 2:1–122.
Ihde, D. (1990). Technology and the Lifeworld: from garden to earth. Indiana University Press.
Kozubaev, S. and Howell, N. (2024). ”tuning in and listening to the current”: Understanding remote ritual practice in sufi communities. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pages 2633–2648. ACM.
Markum, R. B. (2025). On the design of technosacred spaces. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pages 1–14. ACM.
Neris, V. P. A., Rosa, J. C. S., Maciel, C., Pereira, V. C., Galvão, V. F., and Arruda, I. L. (2024). Grandihc-br 2025-2035 - gc4: Sociocultural aspects in human-computer interaction. In Proceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, volume 1, pages 1–14. ACM.
Pfeiffer, C. F., Vos, H. F., and Rea, J. (2007). Dicionário Bíblico Wycliffe. CPAD.
Rosa, J. C. S. and Damian, A. L. (2024). Exploring digital technology adoption among brazilian evangelicals: A survey and research agenda. Journal on Interactive Systems, 15:79–91.
Rosa, J. C. S., Lopes, W. M. C., Arruda, I. L., and Wolf, S. (2026a). Digital mediation of spiritual experiences: Sense-making through story completion. In Proceedings of the 12th Latin American Conference on Human–Computer Interaction. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação.
Rosa, J. C. S., Paes, G. I. S., Damian, A. L., Arruda, I. L., and Markum, R. B. (2026b). Between the Spiritual and the Digital: Computing in the Socioenactive Dimensions of Brazilian Evangelical Spiritual Practices, volume 16108, pages 343–363. Springer.
Stoddart, E. (2023). Artificial pastoral care: Abdication, delegation or collaboration? Studies in Christian Ethics, 36:660–674.
Verbeek, P.-P. (2005). What Things Do. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Verbeek, P.-P. (2011). Moralizing Technology: understanding and designing the morality of things. The University of Chicago Press.
Wolf, S., Buie, E., Friedrich, P., and Blythe, M. (2026). No spirituality please, we’re hci: Challenges for hci research on religion and spirituality. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), April 13â•fi17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain, volume 1, page 29. ACM.
Wolf, S., Friedrich, P., and Hurtienne, J. (2024). Still not a lot of research? re-examining hci research on religion and spirituality. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–15. ACM.
Wyche, S. P. and Grinter, R. E. (2009). Extraordinary computing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 749–758. ACM.
Wyche, S. P., Hayes, G. R., Harvel, L. D., and Grinter, R. E. (2006). Technology in spiritual formation: an exploratory study of computer mediated religious communications. Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 199–208.
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19/07/2026
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ROSA, Jean C. S.; LOPES, Whendell M. C.; ARRUDA, Isabela L..
Mediação Computacional da Espiritualidade Evangélica: tensões e reconfigurações sociotécnicas. In: WORKSHOP SOBRE AS IMPLICAÇÕES DA COMPUTAÇÃO NA SOCIEDADE (WICS), 7. , 2026, Gramado/RS.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2026
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p. 239-252.
ISSN 2763-8707.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wics.2026.21332.
