Juventude M1L GR4U (Mil Grau) ciberespaço em Goiânia: práticas culturais na metrópole virtual

Abstract

We discuss through semiotic analysis, the cultural practices of the M1L GR4U (Mil Grau) Youth exercised in the virtual space, in the Metropolis of Goianiense. We assume that the Virtual Metropolis is inseparable from the Real Metropolis, the place inhabited by the subjects. The real Metropolis of Goianiense is linked to cyberspace, as young people rebuild it, on social media, through humorous language, to reframe their reading of the world, through cultural practices. Young people enter cyberspace looking for elements of everyday life and living space, reinforced by their itineraries and the reading they carry out of urban space. Methodologically, we propose a semiotic analysis, because through the reading of the meanings of the images, it provides the subjects with the apprehension of meanings. Thus, starting from the same meaning, we sought to investigate the inseparability of the real and virtual Metropolis, in a mix of feelings, memories, landscapes and symbols, in a representation of reality to a group of young people, duly established through intentional sampling. The geographical study focuses on the conception of space and the urban landscape portrayed by youth in social media, reinforced by stereotypes. We focus on the adoption of youth itineraries and sociability as important elements so that youth can exercise the dialogue of identity and spatiality. Based on this understanding, we propose the construction of a cartography of the M1L GR4U Youth, based on a georeferential mental map, which indicates points of convergence for the compression of the space lived and practiced by these young people in cyberspace. Finally, we conclude that young people attribute meaning to virtual space, valuing aspects of culture and everyday life, creating territorialities, evidencing their identities and trajectories, through images, languages, and imaginaries, that is, they carry out their cultural practices in the Goianiense Virtual Metropolis.