Since its creation, Instagram has changed a lot, proving itself to be a very powerful platform and an extremely useful tool for deconstructing and understanding visual culture. Every day millions of people interact with it and engage in the performance of their online identity, which necessarily includes the body. This thesis focuses on the way in which the female body is represented on Instagram, through a qualitative analysis of permanent contents in the Cultural Analytics style, with particular reference to a chosen sample of 10 insta-model profiles, a kind of influencer characteristic of Instagram who has made the image of their body their job. After a brief summary of the representation of the female body in art history and the evolution of the media, from a sociological point of view, until the advent of social media, we explore the Instagram culture of the new global class of young creatives formulated by Manovich and known as Instagramism, together with some themes related to the represented body, such as the construction of the body image and psychopathologies related to the consumption of social media, to explore what kind of representation is supported and allowed by the Community Guidelines.
Dalla sua creazione ad oggi, Instagram è cambiato molto, dimostrandosi una piattaforma dal grande potenziale sociale e uno strumento estremamente utile a decostruire e comprendere la cultura visuale. Milioni di persone interagiscono quotidianamente con esso e partecipano alla performance della loro identità online, che passa necessariamente per il corpo. Questa tesi si focalizza sul modo in cui il corpo femminile viene rappresentato su Instagram, tramite un’analisi qualitativa dei contenuti permanenti in stile Cultural Analytics, con particolare riferimento a un campione scelto di 10 profili di insta-model, una tipologia di influencer caratteristica di Instagram che ha fatto dell’immagine del proprio corpo il suo lavoro. Dopo un breve riepilogo della rappresentazione del corpo femminile nella storia dell’arte e dell’evoluzione dei media dal punto di vista sociologico fino all’avvento dei social media, si esplora la Instagram culture della nuova classe globale di giovani creativi formulata da Manovich e detta Instagramism, unitamente ad alcuni temi correlati al corpo rappresentato, come la costruzione dell’immagine corporea e psicopatologie legate al consumo dei social media, per interrogarsi su che tipo di rappresentazione sia supportata e permessa dalle Community Guidelines.
Corpi tra le maglie algoritmiche. Instagram e il corpo femminile : analisi di 10 Insta-model
Rossi, Gianluca
2020/2021
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Since its creation, Instagram has changed a lot, proving itself to be a very powerful platform and an extremely useful tool for deconstructing and understanding visual culture. Every day millions of people interact with it and engage in the performance of their online identity, which necessarily includes the body. This thesis focuses on the way in which the female body is represented on Instagram, through a qualitative analysis of permanent contents in the Cultural Analytics style, with particular reference to a chosen sample of 10 insta-model profiles, a kind of influencer characteristic of Instagram who has made the image of their body their job. After a brief summary of the representation of the female body in art history and the evolution of the media, from a sociological point of view, until the advent of social media, we explore the Instagram culture of the new global class of young creatives formulated by Manovich and known as Instagramism, together with some themes related to the represented body, such as the construction of the body image and psychopathologies related to the consumption of social media, to explore what kind of representation is supported and allowed by the Community Guidelines.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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