Photoblogs: from the social communication to the communication of the self

Abstract

The imagination that fires the creation and maintenance (or lack thereof) of a photographic diary on the Internet is examined in this research with the goal of understanding this communication phenomenon, which is at the same time both intimate and social. Employing the architypologic methodology of Gilbert Durand, the recurring images of movement are mapped between the self and the world, thus verifying the mythology that forms the base of this communicational game.