Nas travessias da interface: as novas formas da vida social em rede

Abstract

The broad propagation in the use of networked information andcommunication technologies unfolds in meaningful innovations in social and individual forms of life. From the first social appropriations of the Internet to the recent practices with wireless connectivity, the modes of relation with network connection apparatus have been going through a process of intensification. That means individuals from variegated socio-cultural contexts are making use of this type of technology in their daily lives, and also multiplying the activities that involve these communication means. Such a generalization of life together with these technologies implies in a deepening in intimacy levels concerning the relation between these very technologies and their users. In the core of this process, multiple interface traversing movements take place from the physical world to the digital world and vice-versa, rendered possible by the technological devices. In traversing, some interactions of a particular nature come to existence, such as networked collaboration and sociability. It is also through this interaction dynamics that digital circulating flows in technological networks are progressively integrated to physical environment routines. That way, new forms of networked social life are being configured, from which new experiences of individuality seem to emerge.