Fluid Conversations in Cyber Culture

This article, written by UFRGS researchers Alex Primo, Vanessa Valiati, Ludmila Lupinacci and Laura Barros, examines how a broad range of communication online services participate in the creation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships in the contemporaneity. By articulating theoretical and empirical perspectives, it investigates how intertwining usage of different digital platforms has been transforming social practices and conversations in the context of cyber culture. Special attention is given at how people appropriate of such services, combining them to achieve various relational goals within various groups in distinct times and places. Based on empirical research with 810 people — all residing in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil, older than 16 years of age and with the minimum of incomplete undergraduate education —, this article defines and discusses the phenomenon of “fluid conversations”. Click on link for the full text:

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