Ursos ao vivo: masculinidades como prática de si no contexto online
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2021-08-10Autor
Caroba, Pablo Vinicius Pizzelli
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This research seeks to bring together two distinct themes: studies on masculinities and
ethnography carried out in virtual or online environments. Doing ethnographic research on the
GROWLr bear-only app, I tried to think of other ways of doing anthropology that weren't stuck
in old concepts like “field” and how this can be rethought and reworked within these new
ethnographic practices. The concept of “digital ethnography” was created approximately 20
years ago by Christine Hine (2001), who also thought about the limitations that the traditional
ethnographic method found nowadays when taken only within its arrangements created in the
19th and 20th centuries. With the exponential growth in the possibility of accessing the internet
and the consequent increase in the relationships that take place in these environments, this field
has become increasingly relevant and often indispensable within contemporary anthropology.
Afterwards, I sought to reflect on the theme of masculinities from the point of view of gender
studies and observed the bears in three dimensions, taking as a reference point the foucauldian
concept of "practice of the self", which is part of the “hegemony-alethurgy-practice of the self”
trio, as formulated by the philosopher in his last courses at the Collége de France. Finally, I was
able to conclude that the virtual environment seems at the same time to facilitate and encourage
more pronounced “masculine” behavior and also seems to make people more comfortable to say
what they really think by “hiding” the immediate figure of the listener.
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