Implications of Social Media utilization at Traditional Festivities and Place (Re)significations

Abstract

Taking into consideration the ever faster changes in the technologies of information, it’s understood that the traditional festivities, which envelops community’s place are also subject to these dynamic processes of contemporarity. In this sense, the essay also intents to comprehend in what ways the subjects appropriates these logics at the same pace as they involve in the unknown regions of the media, specially the social networks. The construction of this essay involved the reading and apprehension of concepts and theories about the festivities and technologies of information and communication in order to discuss, in a theoretical way, the possibilities opened up by these nexus. These groundings derives from discussions situated at the Cultural Geography, specially Brazilian, inserted at the spectrum of postmodern studies, to discuss the (re)signification of tradition by the insertion of technologies.