Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VergasVAS_TESE.pdf: 3797183 bytes, checksum: a230fe58f7c325737569d93a5fe23553 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This research aims to acknowledge the virtual dating phenomenon. The research deals with this phenomenon in Orkut, a social networking website. Thus, it considers debates and forums that were present in a Brazilian Orkut online community called Conheci meu amor pela internet (I met my love through the Internet). As a staring point the research dealt with issues such as: what are the debates about? How can we deal with practices that question their own dating process? According to the initial hypothesis, these debates reveal different contemporary social aspects: 1) they emerge as a response to demands on behalf of a society that is rather reflexive. This reflexive element is fundamental for the constitution of the self 2) these debates work as support elements in social relations that are built upon this sphere. In this context, individuals write about themselves and constitute themselves as real individuals that acquire a sense as subjects; and 3) people discuss online dating as form reconstructing former experiences. Empirical analysis demonstrates that these forums and polls present themselves as a social phenomenon that allows a particular form of self presentation on the internet. In order for these subjects to present themselves they built their own self narratives. What is possible to acknowledge considering these narratives is that there is a predominance of the element of intrigue that is further solved and demonstrate a satisfactory result. These narrators then choose online dating situation that present happy endings and happiness that are associated to romantic ideals that are worthwhile being shown. The contents present in these narratives are dealt with by the research. Thus, this work defends the thesis that the online dating narratives are a mixture of facts and fiction once all experiences deal with romantic imaginary as well as personal dating experience. Thus, the research is an attempt to understand what goes on the forums and debates that deal with the fictionalized and dramatized daily experiences in the performances that are similar to games. This is possible due to the fact that there is use of romantic fables and concrete experiences realized by online dating / A pesquisa se prop?e a estudar o fen?meno do namoro virtual atrav?s da observa??o do Orkut, rede social on-line. Para tanto, analisa os debates travados em f?runs e enquetes de uma de suas comunidades virtuais, chamada Conheci meu amor pela internet. Como ponto de partida, colocam-se as seguintes quest?es: em que se revestem tais debates? O que subjaz ?s pr?ticas que visam interrogar os pr?prios namoros? Conforme as hip?teses iniciais, tais debates desvelam diferentes aspectos sociais contempor?neos: 1) eles emergem para responder ?s demandas de uma sociedade que toma a reflexividade como elemento fundamental para a constitui??o do eu; 2) convertem-se em suportes, na medida em que as rela??es sociais, tecidas nesses espa?os, aparecem investidas por uma escrita de si que indiv?duos lan?am m?o para se constitu?rem enquanto sujeitos de sentido; por fim, 3) discutem-se namoros virtuais com vistas a reconstruir de outra maneira aquilo que foi vivido. A an?lise emp?rica demonstra que esses f?runs e enquetes apresentam-se enquanto um fen?meno social que d? origem a uma forma particular de apresenta??o do eu na internet. No ensejo por apresentarem-se, os mesmos atores acabam por construir narrativas de si. O que se observa nessas narrativas de namoros virtuais ? a predomin?ncia de uma intriga, cujo desfecho revela-se exitoso, de resultado satisfat?rio, feliz. Os narradores elegem casos de namoros virtuais que se desenrolam sob a forma de uma felicidade amorosa associada a ideais rom?nticos como dignos de serem retratados. O teor dessas narrativas ? desses aspectos tribut?rio. Portanto, a partir dessas formula??es, defende-se neste trabalho a tese segundo a qual as narrativas de namoros virtuais s?o um misto de fato e fic??o, na medida em que s?o narrativas tecidas com empr?stimo tanto do imagin?rio rom?ntico quanto da pr?pria experi?ncia amorosa vivida nos namoros. Em resumo, esta pesquisa esfor?a-se por compreender f?runs e enquetes cujo cotidiano amoroso ? ficcionalizado e dramatizado atrav?s de jogos perform?ticos compostos pela fabula??o rom?ntica e pela experi?ncia de concretude dos namoros virtuais