AFRORELIGIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS ON FACEBOOK: NEW IMAGETIC SUPPORTS, TRADITIONAL HABITS

Abstract

This work aims to make some considerations about social networks, history and Afro-religious memory, in which it seeks to understand how the use of Facebook by Afro-religious people occurs. For this, the relationship between new technologies and religious people is analyzed over the years, giving special attention to photography, as well as a case study in which a video (composed of several old photographs) posted on a Facebook page is analyzed. focused on disseminating the culture of Afro-Gaucho religions. Since social media pages can function as a hybrid between photo album and diary, we try to point out that the ephemeral character of the images and texts contained in the networks contain a series of indications of the memory and history of religions of African origin.