Webnamoro: um livro reportagem sobre relacionamentos em tempos de Internet

Abstract

The objective of this work is to document, through a book-report, the reconfigurations in the dynamics of affective-sexual relationships from the popularization of the internet in Brazil to the present day. For the production of this work, scholars in the field of Computer Mediated Communication (RECUERO, 2010) were mapped in order to understand the effects of this technology on human sociability. For the elaboration of this product, three methodological procedures were adopted: 1) documental research, in order to list data on the investigated phenomenon; 2) semi-structured interviews with ten users of the identified virtual social networks and with experts on the subject; 3) and analysis of mapped virtual social networks: mIRC, MSN, Bate-Papo UOL, Orkut, Facebook, OkCupid, Twitter, WhatsApp, Grindr, Instagram, Scruff, Tinder, HelloTalk and TikTok. With the collected reports, the book was built and organized from the sources' experiences with social networks and the way in which the use of such networks helped to shape their affective-sexual experiences.