Dinâmicas comunicativas na autoapresentação de adolescentes no Instagram: intimidade, privacidade e visibilidade em performances de si

Abstract

This work seeks to investigate what we understand as communicative dynamics in the self-presentation of adolescents who benefit from a social project run by a non-governmental organization in the south of São Paulo (Vocação) based on their understandings and ideas about intimidation, privacy and visibility, using the performance as an analytical axis and theoretical tension. As operative concepts, we seek to appropriate fundamental debates about identity, intimacy and also performance, in addition to their links and crossings with modernity, considering digital spaces and the specificities of platformed environments, along with all their infrastructural and material tensions and contradictions. To reach the desired objectives, we seek from a transmethodological perspective, a way to mix methods, producing by hand a way of perceiving and envisioning the specific from: 1) online questionnaires, 2) semi-structured interviews and 3) ethnographic inspirations, which we consider understanding under particular nomenclatures; felt and perceived from the proceduralities of this work. We noticed, in the uses and appropriations of six teenagers, that consumptions are idiosyncratic even when correlated from a practical point of view; note that: 1) there is a growing concern in labor dimensions of/in the construction and performance of self on platforms, 2) that visibility is managed and highly reflected, 3) that subjects appropriate functionalities to obtain more control over who can see what they publish and 4) that we can read the performances based on ritualities of actions such as account deprivation, publication concealment, creation of new profiles and even the use of affordances proposed by the platform