Narrativas póstumas na contemporaneidade: a paradoxal (re)construção da identidade post mortem no facebook

Abstract

Digital social networks (LEMOS, SIBILIA, RECUERO) expand and reconfigure communication practices including a complex theme: how death migrated into digital environment and has undergone re-significances. Note, for example, manifestations of mourning in social networks: friends and family have used the profile of the deceased, to, paradoxically, say goodbye, leave affectionate messages or remember them (DIDI-HUBERMAN, TÜRCKE), although nothing will be read by the dead. From the understanding of spatialtemporal relations in contemporary times (HARVEY, VIRILIO) and the subject exposure value (HAN), the research analyzes how the communicational process related to the postings and interactions on the pages of dead people would be narrating and rebuilding the identity (BAUMAN, GIDDENS, GOFFMAN, HALL) of the deceased, and to what extent there would be reconfigurations of mourning manifestations and transformations of death representations (ARIÉS, LEPARGNEUR, MORIN, REZENDE) in digital social networks, particularly in the case of deceased young people. The hypothesis is that subjects go from contemplation to the reconstruction of identity and that in this process, the dead gains voice and remains alive in memoriam. Thus, resignation before human finitude may be more related to being forgotten than with physical death. Through the netnography, two profiles are analyzed on Facebook over the period of one year, both of people who died young and who continue to receive posts from their network of contacts.