A Fotografia como Prática Conversacional de Dados: espacialização e sociabilidade digital no uso do Instagram em praças e parques na cidade de Salvador

Abstract

This paper aims to empirically investigates the new photographic practice through Instagram application. We studied 305 images associated to four urban spaces (squares and parks) in Salvador, Bahia through the sociability process, the production of space and the self-portraits (including selfies). The analysis points out that the use of meta-textes (hashtags, subtitles and emojis), as well as the geolocation data indicate that the photographic practice is based in a data-driven conversational communication. This practice deploys an extensive network of objects and agencies (artefact, image editing and manipulation, meta-texts, geotags, algorithmic procedure, sharing practices ...). We are dealing with an “actor-network” based in an algorithmic performativity very different from the photographic practice with analogical cameras or even with digital cameras prior the boom of digital social network. Users are now able to create a new discourse / narrative and a practice of data related to the photograph.