The gay orkut communities: meet, confrontation and (re)construction of identities / Comunidades gays do ORKUT : encontros, confrontos e (re)construção de identidades

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present world is symbolic and ephemeral. It is called Post-Modern by the majority of theoretical studies in this search. Considering the concepts evident in post-modernism such as fragmented identities, sociality, presenteism, vitalism, on line communities and globalization, try in this study reflect how these concepts are present in the life of the individual users from on line communities, especially the gay person. So, theoretical studies by Post-Modernity and identity is possible by the authors: Hall (2001), Giddens (2002), Bauman (2005, 2003) and Ortiz (2006) for identify the assumptions that mean living in a cultural and globalized world. It examines the issues of gender and attempts to relate it with homosexuality / homoaffectivity. For this it considering the studies of authors such as Scott (1991) and Butler (2001, 2003). It is also theorized about the history of homosexuality / homoaffectivity identifying social relations that marginalized gay and locate where the knowledge studies of homoerotic are included. It done by Trevisan (2002), Louro (2001, 2004), Foucault (1988, 1979), Fry and MacRae (1984) and Butler again (2001, 2000). Then, the authors like Levy (1999), Bauman (2003, 2001), Maffesoli (2006) and Lemos (2004, 2008, 2002), discusses the cyberculture and cyberspace and identify the concepts of aesthetic communities , tribalism, presenteism, vitalism, hedonism and formism in on line communities surveyed. For the theoretical contributions aims to: identify the constructed identities gays in on line communities hosted on ORKUT by speech analysis; understand if the gay communities have become ghettos and / or spaces of emancipation; know the concepts of what is to be gay from the participants speeches analysis, identify the issues that prevail in most discourses promoted by forum; know what the gays say to you in these communities; understand if the speeches were found in gay communities contribute to the construction of speech against; identifying the construction of the speeches and if there is space in on line power relationships that make the people positions. For these goals were possible, two ORKUT communities were select with the following characteristics: public gay male, Brazil, active communities in present day, with more existence years, that containing material (speeches) large enough for analysis and the sufficient participants number. Finally it is concluded that gays were different identities, So, identities are also in constant transformation. However, the gays speeches in many cases negative, are reflections of the suffering caused by the society prejudice present today. The gay prejudice is over only when the society deconstruction this prejudice through education

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orkut comunidades online gender comunicacao teoria queer homoafetividade homoaffectivity cyberculture cyberspace ciberespaço queer theory cibercultura orkut on line communities gênero

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