Cultura visual e cultura digital: mídia e identidade em arte educação

Abstract

This article approach the student- media-identity relation by analyzing the elements of visual culture that are presents in their physical and virtual everyday. Digital tools used at reading images in art class are also the object of study of the students, aiming to encourage a critical stance on the plethora of technological resources and the abundance of information that we have available in the contemporary world . To this, the visual world that populate their daily lives in different contexts were analyzed. These work were developed and analyzed on physical and virtual portfolios, always performing the same relationship with the construction of their identity. The main conclusion we can have from this study is the need for critical understanding about the appropriateness, the possibilities and the limitations which the media resources and content can have on what young people think .