Selfie in Adolescence: the Seduction by Image

EasyChair Preprint 4099

Abstract

This article demonstrates how the practice of selfie interferes with the social environment, since it affects interpersonal relationships. The power in images that seduces: symbolically the individual can recreate himself, modifying his history even if only in the virtual environment, but still generate suffering and anguish for the lack of correspondence between image and reality, and also lead him to promote an effort to sustain, in his daily life, the posted image, seeking the balance between two distinct realities: that of the virtual image and that of what one really is. As already conceptualized, the image that was a simple optical object of vision, becomes "imagerie", the practice where visual experimentation is done. Thus, a new space is created, the media ethos, the place of new parameters for the construction of personal identities, this virtual bios, which is a new place of living, is where individuality and naturalness disappear, giving way to the personal images produced to simulate the ideal of who made them. This production reveals a character and not the real subject, which directly affects interpersonal relationships. This is even more evident among adolescents and young people, who have emotional needs of constant acceptance and belonging, focus of obsession and compulsiveness, making the educational environment and the welfare of the school community affected, and interpersonal relationships committed. To explore this "malaise" in the school environment, support was sought in studies of Sodré (2002), Zygmunt Bauman and A. Fabris among others.

Keyphrases: Ambiente educacional, Imagem, Meio digital, Relações interpessoais, selfie

@booklet{EasyChair:4099,
  author    = {Maria Cecilia Falcão Mendes Cohn and Sandra Lucia Ferreira},
  title     = {Selfie in Adolescence: the Seduction by Image},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 4099},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}