Capturas y resistencias subjetivas en la red social facebook : un estudio con mujeres jóvenes

Abstract

This research aims to make visible, through life stories, the processes of subjectivation that resides between the capture of desire and the creation of resistance of a group of young women, from synoptic surveillance, the whitened model of women and the denial of the differences inherent to the societies of control, shown on Facebook. In-depth interviews with six young women from Bogotá who use this social network, were conducted using images and the creation of testimonies as resources. It is observed that there is a subjection of emotions and needs towards aesthetic and moral evaluations about correct ways of being a woman, connected with the consumption of whitewashed models; and the publicity of the self-image as a mechanism of exposure / validation of their own self-esteem, generating some processes of self-scrutiny. Likewise, there are attempts to de-subjectivation since the resistance beginning with self-reflection, the visibility of other subjectivities outside the spaces of visibility and the beginning of collective agency of disidentification with femininity. This study reflects that self-esteem is linked to social media, and the capacities, values and emotions that are consumed in it must be considered at the same level as aesthetics when approaching to the self-esteem of young women, this should happen too with the possibilities of reconstructing their own history, encounters and affections between women.