It s a match! You and Rio have liked each other : O Tinder como mediador de experiências, identidades e imaginários entre estrangeiros e brasileiros residentes no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This research explores the experiences of city and sociability of foreigners and Brazilians residing in Rio de Janeiro raised in interactions initiated on Tinder. Based on observations, experiments and conversations carried out in ethnographic research, the study asks: How does the foreigners explorer Rio de Janeiro based on the interpersonal relations they establish with Brazilians on Tinder? The procedures were: a) Interviews with six foreign users of Tinder in the city of Rio de Janeiro and with six resident users who interacted with foreigners; b) Personal report of experience in the Tinder done in a systematized way with A., Mexican, who came to embark on the research during his stay in Rio de Janeiro; c) A field experiment in Rome, where I exercised the place of foreigner in this experience; d) Observations of profiles of foreign users in Tinder and e) Document collection of information about Tinder on the official website of the Platform, in matters of the national and international press and in the application itself. The research has as main thematic of the imaginaries and identity about the city of Rio de Janeiro and about the Brazilians, since they were the elements most latently perceived in the exchanges between the social actors of the research. Among the authors who will compose the theoretical framework are Stuart Hall, Michel Maffesoli. Erving Goffman, Patrick Legros, Frédéric Monneyron, Jean-Bruno Renard and Patrick Tacussel