Sujeitos em parênteses: usos e repertórios de internautas nas salas de bate-papo em Campina Grande.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study the virtual interactions, as social interactions formed in cyberspace, particularly in environments known as chat rooms in which internet users built personas, using in their interactions strategies of self presentation and performance. We bring here in particular, reflections we made having as basis interviews carried out with a sample of internet users from Campina Grande, stratified by the gender and sexual orientation. Our theoretical perspective is based on contributions by Simmel, on social interactions and on dramaturgic sociology, by Goffman. Among the main research outputs - we point out following: The rooms chat respond to the requirement of contacts, there is an interdependence of the world experiences on line with the traditional relations of space (off line). In this sense, the taking of roles to be exercised only to provide the nature of the relationships that are proposed, and these practices suggest practices of performances of meaning between groups, making their identities and sexuality in the social spheres shaped by imagination and language.