How can social networks affect the body in Physical Education classes? analysis of a school pedagogical experience with/on Instagram?
Physical Education; Body; Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC); Social Network Instagram; Actor-Network Theory.
The present study sought to understand how the body and its meanings are constructed and problematized on the digital platform Instagram by students participating in a Media-Education (Physics) pedagogical experience. Interest in the topic began to be built through discussions in the Link@ Study Group and my daily journey as a Physical Education (PE) teacher at school. For this reason, a qualitative study was carried out, dialoguing with the bases of the Actor-Network Theory, studied during the group meetings, in order to think about the relationships between humans and non-humans and the traces left by them within a network sociotechnical. As an instrument for constructing the data, action research was used as a methodology, so that I could become a network actor during the pedagogical experience developed during Physical Education classes at a School belonging to the State Educational Network of Minas Gerais, taking an active and participatory role within the research. For this methodological journey, we had the problem question: in what way(s) can Instagram, combined with the teacher's intentionality, produce an educational experience, undertaken in terms of students' affectations, about the body in digital culture? The research results were mapped and described in three scenes, and they indicate that, from this media-educational experience, a socio-material arrangement in association with cell phones, photographs, applications and social networks, produced four different effects, namely: the production of risk awareness regarding the use of images and social networks; the participation of students, who did not participate in PE classes as protagonists (both effects described in the description of scene 1); the mobilization and authorship of media posts on social networks based on the experience of PE classes (described in scene 2); and, finally, the agencies of social networks in the daily lives of students (result of scene 3).