Risco-espetáculo: novas modalidades do risco na era digital

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the engendering of risk-spectacle as a new modality of risk and also as a subjectivation vector in contemporary times. In this sense, the risk-spectacle is configured as a possible reading about a phenomenon of the digital age that has reached enormous popularity among the children and youth public: the YouTube challenges. Many challenges become popular when published by famous youtubers, the Internet celebrities. As a result, young people begin to replicate such practices in their homes. Despite the playful and seemingly safe character, some youtube challenges imply a risk to health and life, being framed in the roll of dangerous games. These risk-taking practices occur, most of the time, without the supervision of the family. This leads us to question which kinds of governmentality operate in the virtual environment, in order to manage conducts that affect the concrete world and which modes of subjectivation are being produced from these practices.