Virtual spectrum. The dimensions of “showing to be” in virtual communities of relationship

Abstract

As for the enjoyment of cultural practices associated to the cyberspace and the real time that manages the tertiary media, an increasing transposal of the world in images is observerd, opening an uncontrolled production of simulacrum (Baudrillard, 1996). To the desmaterialization of the space, the body is followed (Virilio, 2000, 2005), densifying the phenomenon of existence spectrology. It is time, however, to think over the statute of image in the processes of codification and in-formation (Flusser, 2007) of identity in the virtual spaces, observing especially the spooky condition (Kamper, 2002) of being in cyberspace platforms of high media visibility, such as the orkut. Keywords: Cyberculture. Identity. Image. Representation. Simulation. Media Visibility.