Jovens e a fotografia digital

Abstract

This paper presents a research about photographs made inside some Public Brazilian Schools in São Paulo state, which were made by students who attend those institutions.The paper"s aim is to analyze how this place is being recorded in these images.The research also seeks to indicate how the teenagers are dealing with the photograph in their daily lives and what kinds of meanings they are building.The photographs analyzed were researched among the ones published by the selected monitored youth on the Orkut website.The photographs posted by these adolescents on the mentioned website were observed for a period of four years and some of these photos are published at the present research to exemplify which were their frequent subjects, the frequent manipulations and modifications that young people have done with these kinds of images and how the storage of these photographs is being done.