Digital technologies and body image in young Chileans of middle segments: a case study using cyberetnography

The article is part of an empirical research about practices and meanings of the body in urban youth belonging to middle socioeconomic groups, residents in the Chilean cities of Santiago and Concepción, covering the years 2016 and 2017. The objective is aimed at problematizing results derived from f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ganter Solís, Rodrigo, Basulto Gallegos, Oscar, Mendoza Riquelme, Catalina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Ecuador
Institución:Revista CHASQUI
Repositorio:Revista CHASQUI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.ciespal.org:article/3465
Acceso en línea:https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3465
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:social networks; cyberspace; corpo-esfera; generations; body image
Sociología
redes sociales; ciberespacio; corpo-esfera; generaciones; imagen corporal
redes sociais, ciberespaço, corpo-esfera, gerações, imagem corporal
Descripción
Sumario:The article is part of an empirical research about practices and meanings of the body in urban youth belonging to middle socioeconomic groups, residents in the Chilean cities of Santiago and Concepción, covering the years 2016 and 2017. The objective is aimed at problematizing results derived from fieldwork, fundamentally associated with the use of digital technologies that rectify and enhance the body image in front of others, in the context of what we call corpo-sphere here. The methodology corresponds to a cyberetnography; and the main findings discuss the tensions imposed by a new morality of aesthetic purity in social networks, identifying styles of corporal normalization and vanishing lines for the current juvenile worlds.