Like, share and store: photographic archive on social networks

Abstract

In the 21^st century, the internet took on several purposes. Personal photography, once something almost sacralized, restricted to the old printed, boxed family albums, gained in the network a great tool of propagation and popularization, among other factors that also propitiated its disclosure until the present day. With the advent of social networking, such as Facebook, Instagram, Flicker, Twitter among others, the dissemination of digital photographs has increased exponentially. They document the activities and relationships of the person who posted them, of those who are represented in the photos, and of those who interacted with the post. Considering this, the present work intends to investigate photography as an archival document, its storage and use in times of social networks and the ways in which this relationship takes place. The methodology used was the research in bibliographical and documentary sources. Results indicate that these photographs can be considered hosted on the internet as a new personal photo album, now online and shared. In its genesis, in addition to having the same intentions of recording and saving the memory of special moments as analog photographs, in social networks, photography also becomes a communicating agent.