AMONG BODIES: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN, RESEARCHER AND INTERLOCUTORS IN AN ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE CYBERSPACE

Abstract

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the theoretical and methodological paths of ethnography developed on a group of women dedicated to the strip market in cyberspace, which main objective is related to the perception and representation of their work body, and especially how they experience it on the interactions with their clients. The reflection takes place around my insertion into the search field, the obstacles and problems faced and the strategies adopted to implement them in the research development. In this scenario, bearing in mind the theme of the research, a significant point in its development was the failure of accomplishing interviews and informal conversations via webcam or microphone, which probably made it difficult to capture many nuances of communication. Nevertheless, the “lack of body” in these dialogues, developed mostly by writing, caused little fluidity to the conversations at many moments, a circumstance which, among others, leads me to approach in this text also my own body experience in the circumstances of the research.