Prefiro as redes, nas ruas todo mundo te vê: trajectórias, práticas e estratégias de estabelecimento e gestão de confiança, adoptadas pelas usuárias de redes sociais para a venda de serviços sexuais em Maputo

Abstract

The monograph entitled "I prefer the networks, in the streets everyone sees you: trajectories, practices and strategies for establishing and managing trust adopted by female users of social networks for the sale of sexual services in Maputo" seeks to capture the trajectories, practices and strategies that sex workers who promote sexual services through social networks adopt in order to establish and manage trust in building commercial relationships with their clients. To analyze this reality, Alfred Schutz's Phenomenological theory (1979) was used, articulating central concepts such as: the world of life, motivations, experiences, and trust. The research is guided by a qualitative approach, based on semi-structured interviews; with snowball sampling, with four sex workers as a sample. To analyze and interpret the data, content analysis was used, and the results indicate that, in order to establish trust when building commercial relationships with their clients, sex workers employ strategies such as open dialogue and making videos- real-time calls. The strategies adopted by sex workers to establish and manage trust with their clients are shaped by the daily experiences lived by participants in social networks, which allow them to predict behaviors and capture the importance of trust in building commercial relationships in cyberspace