About Us. The Strategies of Collective Self-Representation

This research aims at a reflection on the possibility of collective self-portrait, its methodological problems and paths of analysis that theme the concept of belonging and the visual construction of a community. Useful methodological tools have proven to be the paradigms of web and internet studies and virtual ethnography. The research was organized from two case studies: the first concerns the self representation and narration implemented through the social networks and blogs of Bonefro, a local community which has undergone important phenomena of diaspora. The second case concerns instead the self-representation of the town community of Reggio Emilia through a photographic art project: Self-Community by Cecilia Pratizzoli.