The Gay ORKUT communities: meetings, confrontations and (re)constructions of identities

The present world is symbolic and ephemeral. It is called Post-Modern by the majority of theoretical studies in this search. This study reflect how these concepts are present in the life of the individual users from on line communities, especially the gay person. The aims goals are identify the cons...

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Autores: Santos, Andréa Pereira dos, Gomes, Suely Henrique de Aquino
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Comunicação & Informação (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/22447
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ufg.br/ci/article/view/22447
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Homoaffectivity. Queer theory. Cyberspace. On line communities.
Homoafetividade. Teoria Queer. Ciberespaço. Comunidades online. ORKUT. Homoaffectivity. Queer theory. Cyberspace. On line communities.
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Sumario:The present world is symbolic and ephemeral. It is called Post-Modern by the majority of theoretical studies in this search. This study reflect how these concepts are present in the life of the individual users from on line communities, especially the gay person. The aims goals are identify the constructed identities gays in on line communities hosted on ORKUT by speech analysis. 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.