Photographs in Instagram: images of corporate practices and sociabilities in public parks leisure citadines

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2019.e53898

Abstract

The objective of this article is to identify and reflect on human sociabilities by analyzing images - photographed and transmitted in the Instagram - of corporal practices in public urban leisure parks. It is an exploratory study of quantitative-qualitative nature of images captured in Instagram and taken here as a frame, through the system of search and tracking of the geolocation of two public parks of Brazilian metropolitan cities and that were imported to MAXQDA in order to facilitate the categorization and elucidation of qualitative information. As a first synthesis, sociabilities express themselves singularly on the internet alongside spectacular images of daily life of subjects, who at the instant they make their posts are producing social relations mediated by images, thus narrowing their social circles. In this way, real space and virtual space do not constitute distinct environments when it comes to human sociability.

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Augusto Cesar Rios Leiro, Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal da Bahia (PPGE/UFBA) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação e Contemporaneidade da Universidade do Estado da Bahia (PPGEduC/UNEB), editor geral da Revista Educação e Contemporaneidade, mestre e doutor em Educação.

Ednaldo da Silva Pereira Filho, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Unisinos

Professor e coordenador do curso de Educação Física da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), mestre em Educação e doutor em Ciências Sociais.

Paulo Cesar de Carvalho Lima, Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA

Doutorando em Educação do PPGE/UFBA, instrutor de Educação Profissional III do Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial (Senac-BA) e fotógrafo.

Published

2019-04-23

How to Cite

Leiro, A. C. R., Filho, E. da S. P., & Lima, P. C. de C. (2019). Photographs in Instagram: images of corporate practices and sociabilities in public parks leisure citadines. Perspectiva, 37(1), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2019.e53898

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Dossiê Imagens, Mídias e Práticas Corporais

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