Risco e visibilidade: a prática da selfie de risco e a formação de subjetividades na sociedade contemporânea

Abstract

Mobile interaction devices and connections established and sustained by them are considerable elements when dealing with changes in visibility and in their schemes. Of course, access to these connected devices, together with the capacity to produce and share symbolic contents, are essential for the emergence of the self-promoting society we are experiencing today, in which self-display practices are frequent, generating a profusion of images that dominate digital social networks and everyday social. Among the various modalities of self representation on the internet, we highlight in this dissertation the practice of risk selfie. Through Depth Hermeneutics and with the aid of virtual ethnography, we seek clarifications that touch on the following question: what implications are generated in the process of subjectivity formation from the practice of risk selfie? Based on this questioning, the research aimed to understand how subjectivities are associated with visibility devices, as well as to understand the means by which the practice of self-risk can add visibility to its adherents, taking into account the interferences which this fact tends to bring to the structuring process of sociability.