The imaginary and the city of Goiânia: perceptions of cultural practices in the virtual metropolis

Abstract

The cultural practices of youth exercised in a virtual environment, portrayed in the Metropolitan Region of Goiânia, are discussed. Starting from a phenomenological approach, it is assumed that such cultural practices, when exercised, provide the reframing of the place, of the lived space, strengthening the sense of belonging that social relations provide. Young people seek, when entering cyberspace, to rescue elements of the imaginary, of the lived and to become noticeable, reinforcing their spatiality through the trajectory and reading of the world. The geographical look turns to this perception, in the conception of the happy spaces portrayed by youth on social media. The geographical saying is also portrayed, in this article, through the testimony of a young man, who in the face of his memories, shares his spatiality, causing them to also share their socio-spatial practices, thus evidencing cultural aspects in the Virtual Metropolis.