Taiwan high school girls’ everyday life aesthetic practices on Instagram: The affordance approach

Abstract

本研究以符擔性理論（Affordance Theory）為本，透過深度訪談與後製相片分析，探討高中女生如何感知Instagram的科技符擔性，如何與之互動，並在此互動中創造哪些新的實踐樣態。研究發現，Instagram以圖為本之特性，成為高中女生日常生活中展演自我的場域；在不同Instagram社群之各自協定下，女生們游移在複數藝術世界中。這顯示Instagram的介面設計，成功將使用者之相片分享導向品味與美感，從而促使她們蒐集更多apps進行相片後製，藉此建立自我秀異風格，凡此都讓美學成了一種日常生活實踐，她們已將美化的生活分享當成了實存。

This study explores high school girls` Instagram aesthetic practices based on the affordance theory. We conduct in-depth interviews and photo analyses of 10 subjects to reveal how these girls interact with the app`s interface, and what strategic practices they have developed to interact with the affordances preset by Instagram. The findings demonstrate that Instagram has become a realm for everyday aesthetics due to its design priority on photos. These high school girls navigate in plural art worlds as they share their reframed photos with a variety of social groups, of which each has its own discrete aesthetic convention. This indicates that Instagram`s interface design has successfully associated itself with taste and beauty, eliciting these girls to collect more reframing apps in order to achieve their own distinction. As a result, aesthetics takes shape in everyday life, but they take their own aestheticized life as the real one.