Ciberintimidade: a escrita de si na era digital

Abstract

This work deals with the attempt to understand a public intimacy that is at the same time paradoxical, mediatic and technological, emerging under the sign of postmodernity, through intensive and extensive practice of writing itself in cyberspace, which have caused the disruption of boundaries between public and private in modernity - called by us cyberintimidade. Accordingly, we intend to map out what are the possible reasons why the post-moderns subjects constitute themselves by means of a self-referencial written, that launches new terms of levels of exposure to each other. The methodology of work was: (i) study of texts concerning the areas of interest, (ii) historical and comparative analysis between the different forms of subjectivity that are composed by means of the self-referential writting and the various ways of thinking about relations between the public and private sectors, (iii) discourse analysis of virtual diaries found on blogs, (iv) qualitative research through interviews semi-structured interviews with the writers of blogs (v) quantitative research, using sample that are probabilistic and not intentional, with students and professors in order to map some pre-understandings about the imaginary cibercultural. We conclude that cyberintimidade not imply a lack of filter in relation to the exposure of intimacy, but only the introduction of a new mindset about the desired levels of the limits of this filter, in view of the secondary gains stemming from this privacy loss. Among which are: the strengthening of ties of sociability, resulting in greater possibility of interactions between blog writers and their readers, the possibility of drawing up new forms of subjectivity, through arrangements arising from a naturaly writing cathartic, who is also a way to listen itself, and, finally, the possibility of lift guards flank against the ruins of oblivion, guarding for themselves and for posterity a reliquary of memories of life in the memory guard of the blog.