Digital social networks and symbolic violence. Instagram and the image of women
Abstract
This article is part of an investigation that seeks to elucidate the role of virtual communication, especially that involving digital social networks, in the reproduction of forms of symbolic violence in a globalized world. In this case, we sustain that there are visual guidelines in the social network Instagram that reaffirm stereotypes and conceptions of how women should be and how they should behave, that is, a form of symbolic violence. We argue that in the images of the profiles of the most followed women on Instagram, it is possible to observe an intertwined duality: the woman as a human being dedicated to the domestic and the family in the private sphere; and women as a sexualized object in the public sphere.
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