Análise de perfis do Instagram e suas contribuições formativas ao profissional bibliotecário

Abstract

Communication is essential to human relationships, which is currently established through social media. However, it appears that in the face-to-face workspaces of professional librarians, the appeal to informative practices is dominant and, sometimes, disconnected from the context of the digital age. In this scenario, social media, immersed in people's daily lives, point to alternative possibilities for thinking about training in an integrated way with everyday reality. Thus, the question that guided this study was: what are the potentialities of Instagram for the dissemination of information in the training context of the professional librarian? For this purpose, the following hypothesis was also raised: the social media Instagram can contribute to the formation of librarians, mainly through informative profiles. The study had a qualitative approach with an exploratory design. Profiles of the Instagram digital network and the respective comments from followers regarding library science content were analyzed. The content analysis technique was used to analyze the data. As a result, the study revealed that even though librarianship profiles had argumentative and entertaining posts, the informative content presented in the context of face-to-face training is reproduced in the digital context, highlighting the need to think about social media beyond thinking traditional.