| Summary: | On-line communitieshave been representedan alternativefor the dissemination of speech, access to information;citizenship;mobilizingof ordinary peopleto defend their interests, and especially in the constructionof identities.Theoretical frameworks used areBauman(2005), Hall (2006), Moita Lopes(2010),Mocelim(2007), Recuero(2009), Rocha and Couto (2010) to anchor the discussions about identity and cyberspace.Thus,thispaper analyzes theactivitiesof a virtual communityon Orkutcreated tosubstitute teachers, andthrough the interactionsin the posts wereflect onthe process of teachersidentity construction.We observed that the negative representationsaboutthemselves published by themin the posts evidencethe socially constructed meaningsattributed to thefact that they havetemporary contract work.We concludethat the language andsocial interactionsrepresent the teachers social identities andthat in times ofcyberidentities arehybrid, transitional and fluid.
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