Depois dos quinze: discursos sobre corpo de mulheres jovens no blog

Abstract

Youth today is increasingly linked to cyberspace, and it shared much of its representations, from this point of view, this study has chosen a blog called "Depois dos Quinze” (After Fifteen) as the research matter. The research is justified in the interest of bringing real-life situations of young people nowadays to analyze them in educational contexts considering that themes about the body, weight loss, their pitfalls, and resistance often worries young people nowadays. The aim was to reveal body representations among young women departing from the posts of bloggers and comments from their followers. The survey was conducted from an ethnographical study on the blog on the cyberspace. Five posts that converged with the representation of the body were selected: ": “Como descobri que nunca fui gorda (How I found out that I was never fat) with 19 comments; “O reflexo e eu” (The reflection and I), with 04 comments; "Corpão" (Super hot body) with 78 comments; “Superando os próprios preconceitos” (Overcoming my own prejudices) with 04 comments; and "Look: Garfield Del Rey" with 12 comments. From these posts, four themes were analyzed during the research, namely: "ideal body", "self care", "style groups" and "the role of the blog as a place of construction of new female juvenile identities." In conclusion, it was found that the young followers of the blog, in constant interaction, build new identities, empower themselves virtually and symbolically, and thus overcome the condition of not having the hegemonic body pattern. The blog even being a space that conveys products, advertisements, symbolizing the consumer culture, is transformed by these young people into an emancipatory space for they build a youth protagonism facing the posts of the bloggers and the comments of the followers, constituting a style group through the reaffirmation of the differences.