Orkut: o mal-estar nas entrelinhas da informação

Abstract

This work aims to interpret and analyze the change of moral precepts, ethical and forms of exerci se of interpersonal surveillance in virtual space, seen from the expansion of diversification of access interactive undertaken by individuals on Orkut. It features the contemporary as a socio-historical built upon a waiver of instinct, establishing an excess of social order to individuals. Thus, discusses some social and cultural transformation occurred with the advent of Information Technology and Communications inserted in the daily of contemporary society. It social relations in the virtual environment, realizing the Internet as an inviting space for the exhibition of "I", problem the social networks as virtual spaces of updating control. Accordingly, underscores the emergence of new social standards and reconfiguration in fact undertaken by individuals as a way to circumvent the exercise of surveillance on relationships site, called Orkut. Perform a ethnography, using the interpretation of culture, describing 7 interviews in the second part of this work.