Globalização e Nacionalismo: um estudo de caso da comunidade virtual “Brasil” sobre a identidade cultural brasileira no Orkut

Abstract

This case study of the virtual community “Brasil” approaches the relations which occur then Brazilian cultural identity is exposed and brought to attention in the website Orkut. To that end, it takes the declarations of users about their feelings and opinions about Brasil and the meaning of ‘to be Brazilian’. Questions about the paradoxical relation between localism and globalization in present times are signalled as national cultural identity is exposed in a potentially globalized environment: the Internet.