Quem sou eu: autorrepresentações de travestis no orkut
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2009-07-07
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This study investigates the self representations of transvestites in orkut and constitutive
elements of their (cyber)identities, having the visuality as the focus and determinant axis. For
this, the emphasis is given to pictures and self portraits, present in albums of their profiles on
the site. We are interested in understanding what is the image they construct of themselves
from physical reconstructions, aesthetic formulations, costumes, scenery, performances and a
whole network of symbolic meaning which is important for them. Orkut, like many other
social environments of the internet, comprehends speeches and narratives of individuals and
social groups that describe, identify and represent themselves of the most varied ways and
with the most diverse goals and interests. In order to understand how the self representations
of transvestites are built on orkut, it was investigated initially some communities with trans
thematic, then it was selected the profiles of two transvestites, with whom interviews were
also conducted. Although this study focuses on the self representations in the orkut, other
environments in cyberspace have been researched, as blogs and sites for transvestites. We
conclude that there are multiple ways to represent transvestitely, not just the stereotypical,
stigmatized and marginalized representations widespread by the media
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LIMA, Aline Soares. Who I am? Self representations of travestites on the orkut. 2009. 206 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Processos e Sistemas Visuais, Educação e Visualidade) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2009.