big corporations (public and private) will be part of this discussion as well as the analysis arising from this historical moment.We will also discuss the role of the media in this rearrangement and the importance of audio/visual recording by the involved communities which creates broader discussions concerning identity and sense of belonging.Ana Stela da Cunha. Post-doctor in Anthropology, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais (Social Sciences Institute) ICS, currently Post-doctor in CRIA (ISCTE/Lisbon). Master and Doctor in African Linguistics (University of Sao Paulo/2003). Technical Coordinator of the project O boi Contou financed by Programa Petrobras Cultural 2007 ongoing. Visiting Researcher at the Musee Royal de l Afrique Central (Tervuren, Belgium).Pause 15 minutesSessions GT02 Media and Identity Representations11.25- 11.55 - Mandinga for export: capoeiras cunning feature as simbolic heritage in the global eraMandinga is a magical attribute - symbolic, existing as mandingas purses due to Mandinga Negros, former inhabitants of the Niger Valley in the Mali Kingdom, that during the slave trafficking of the Black Atlantic were transported to other areas of the globe. The mandingas purses were traded by the slaves as means of spiritual guarnishment, among other beliefs, and integrate capoeira as a protection charm, changing its meaning, and so designating the malicious and cunning capoeirista as mandingueiro. With this paper we wish to show the different designations of mandinga in the sacred field and how the practitioners of capoeira appropriate them. We also wish to analyze how mandinga in capoeira was approached in movies and how it was used as advertisement for exporting capoeira, especially mandinga, as a comercial product into the world and as a symbolic heritage for the practitioners. For this purpose we analyzed the following documentaries: Mandinga em Manhattan (Mandinga in Manhattan) and Mestre Leopoldina: a fina flor da malandragem (Master Leopoldina: the ultimate master of cunning).Ricardo Nascimento, Major in Geography - University of Porto. Masters in Culture Sociology University of Minho. Doctor student in Anthropology - New Univesity of Lisbon. Vice President of the Cultural Association Ginga Brasil Capoeira. ACGBCs purpose is to promote intercultural dialogues, to fight prejudice and to promote non-formal education as a methodology of teaching.11.55 12.35 - DiscussionLunchPlenary Conference14.00 14.30 Identity Narrations in Lusophone CyberspaceIn this paper we present the conceptual and methodological approach of a transdisciplinary research project that analyzes the (re)construction of the Lusophone identity in cyberspace and in everyday interpersonal communication. We also report some of the preliminary results of the projects first stage that analyzes blogs and sites concerning collective memory, national identity and the Lusophone world. The great geographical dispersion of the Lusophone space has made it difficult to carry out systematic studies on how this imaginary community defines itself and is defined, having as basis the different national communities of which it is composed. To study the meanings of the Lusophone world is an opportunity of giving voice to traditionally silenced groups, of discussing the social representations that form the everyday life of people who live in this heterogeneous space and of hearing their narrations.Rosa Cabecinhas Associate Professor with the Social Sciences Institute of Minho University where she