Cyberculture, youth and heteronormativity: activism and resistance on Facebook

Abstract

The text shows the political activism and engagement in which a group of young Internet users establishes on the communicational dynamics of Facebook. This group is composed of young people who do not identify with the model of heterosexuality and seek, through Internet dialogue, to contest issues of gender and sexuality that are in harmony with the optic of heteronormativity. Part of a doctoral dissertation recently concluded, the study recognized that the mediation of cybercultural social practices could strengthen the political and social participation of the youth. Developed in the bakhtinian perspective of dialogism and otherness, the study allowed us to understand cyberspace as a privileged space for young people today to exercise freedom of expression., to exercise the possibility to speak, to listen and to express themselves politically by what they believe, promoting the possibility of resistance against heteronormativity throughout activisms which are dynamically constituted by the power of Internet dialogue.