A Família “Os Poderosos e As Poderosas”: percursos juvenis entre o WhatsApp e a Praça

Abstract

Amidst the urban area of Fortaleza (CE), many adolescents and youths construct different types of sociability. With the increasing use of mobile information and communication technologies, especially mobile, new areas are created as well as built new forms of interaction. This argumentative text brings the paths of ethnographic research, produced in virtual form and under the street, in order to investigate in the field of sociability, as are woven links between adolescents and young members of a self-styled grouping "family Os Poderosos e As Poderosas" from the use of WhatsApp and weaving of the Sapiranga neighborhood squares - located in the Regional Secretariat VI - where weekly meetings mark. Therefore, the researcher was inserted into the powerful family for about ten months in 2015, interacting with its members, conducting interviews, diaries edges, photographic records in the meetings scheduled in the streets, and their total stay in WhatsApp groups created by the powerful family with the organization of development and interaction of the participants of the grouping. Such groups maintain defined board, rules of conduct and an intense amount of senses territories where pervade friendship, its characterization as a family, romances and rivalries, and such relationships built daily from the convergence between the mobile and the square as poles of meeting, leisure, affection and also crises and undoings links. The routes outlined in this research investigated how these relationships occur, their shifts and breaks. Throughout the argumentative text, the author maintains dialogue with Actor-Network Theory, from authors such as Latour (2012) and Lemos (2014); dialogues on the methodological procedures used during the research, with Margulis (2009), Magnani (2012), Peirano (1995), Polivanov (2013), among other authors; brings elements of body and sensuousness with Sibilia (2014), Sennett (2003) and Schutz (1979); addresses the discussion of sociability from Santaella (2013) and especially to Simmel (1983); resumes Simmel (2001), to discuss family, addressing the concept of friendship with Rezende (2002); among other key categories.