Performances juvenis nas redes sociais: o online como entrelugar de encontro

Abstract

The present thesis derives from a research process that involved young people and their performances on social networks, addressing their unfoldings. The performance, understood through the perspective of event as action, interaction, relationship, and being as a participant within the networks, is often marked by exemption or anonymity, due to the culture of cancellation and criticism, present in interactions mediated by social networks. Considering the multiple exchanges, and the large number of users who share information within the networks, we have a hybrid space, a free territory, a place/non-place. In this study we assumed to consider the social network space as a between-place, relating it to the concepts defined by Augé (1994). Given the above, we aimed to map the performative processes mediated by the networks, in which young people interact, share and learn. In light of the concepts of performance (SCHECHNER, 2006), youth (BOYD, 2007, 2014), network culture (LÉVY, 2010), and place/non-place (AUGÉ, 1994), one can observe how social networks today serve as spaces of encounter, of living together, amidst the global pandemic experienced. Using the wandering of flânerie as an active methodological possibility, paths were traced to observe the virtual movements performed by youth, supported by the considerations of Bardin (2016), with the content analysis of the data produced by this research. As a result of their own meanings and ways of interaction mediated by this in-between place, attributed by the subjects analyzed here, social networks were observed as spaces of indetermination where young people experience relationships with other subjects and with the constituted space itself, thus creating their own meanings, identifications, fixed or transient.