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This article analyzes the controversial interactions about the film Vazante and the play Gisberta, in which identitary groups related to black and transsexual people, respectively, criticized the way they were represented in those fictions. From the theory of recognition by Axel Honneth, it aims to understand the emergence of those forms of social struggle in media culture. This study analyzes the collective semantics and the way it expresses the feelings of injustice related to the narratives. The struggle highlights different claims, which refer to both the cultural inclusion and the autonomy of fiction and propose relations between narrative and society that challenge the current media criticism.

In this interview with Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, we discuss the rise of Everyday Life Studies, its connection to Cultural Studies, and its implications for academic research. Professor Highmore has published extensively on the topic of everyday life from an array of perspectives, ranging from the tradition of critique of everyday life to material culture as well as the influence of feelings and aesthetics in how we experience the world. The supersession of the idea that the everyday is a monolithic phenomenon, available for scientific scrutiny, is central to Professor Highmore’s argument that the everyday is, accordingly, always an inquiry into certain aspects of concrete existence.

Este texto pretende demonstrar como o processo de nomadismo e movência dos textos artísticos pode interferir nas formas de sensibilidade e, consequentemente, nos processos de comunicação estética. Para tanto, tomamos versões paródicas de filmes da década de 1950, com o fim de verificar: 1) como a apropriação paródica estabelece uma semântica particular, considerando o trânsito entre arte e o espetáculo de entretenimento popular; 2) como as novas versões modificam o estatuto da obra e por conseguinte, sua fruição. Para este estudo, tomam-se elementos das linguagens da moda e da música. Concluímos que para além de novas formas de sensibilidade, tais obras constituem memória cultural, no seio da cultura midiática.

La reflexión contemporánea sobre niveles distintos de la crítica ha desarrollado, a partir de perspectivas contrastantes, el concepto de metacrítica. Este artículo presenta la posibilidad de establecer una crítica de la cultura mediática por medio de la metacrítica y la dificultad peculiar en sugerir una definición unívoca para el concepto, debido a su multiplicidad y variabilidad, presentando sus aplicaciones en diversos campos del conocimiento (especialmente la sociología) y relacionándolo con los estudios de los medios. El texto propone la metacrítica mediática como una noción capaz de aglutinar análisis sobre las prácticas mediáticas, demostrando su pertinencia en producciones audiovisuales recientes.

The spreading of fake news about the trial of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on January, 2018 is examined here according to the pragmatic conception of truth proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). Through collecting in online social networks, the collective effort to establish competing beliefs was observed, according to Peircean methods of tenacity and authority. The communicational process analyzed, characterized as transmedia activism, was driven by the mediation of hashtags that referred to political polarization and the posts attributed to celebrities. It is concluded that the dispute for the semiotic value of truth fostered the transmedia expansion of fake content and, paradoxically, verified news.

Donald Trump’s election as American President and the successful referendum campaign to exit the European Union in Britain have prompted renewed interest in the challenges posed to deliberative democracy by right-wing populism. This paper returns to the research on authoritarianism developed by the Frankfurt School in Germany and the United States, particularly to their emphasis on the performative construction of appeals, and to Jürgen Habermas’ later characterisation of the translation of citizens into spectating subjects as a refeudalisation of the public sphere, and argues that these analyses continue to provide indispensable resources for understanding contemporary developments.

Memória e homenagem de Cremilda Medida a José Marques de Melo (1943-2018).

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Este artigo discute a novidade do big data, argumentando que ela pode ser definida em relação ao tipo de conhecimento que é criado. Destaca a importância do big data na pesquisa em ciências sociais e, especialmente, na pesquisa em comunicação, apesar de essa investigação ser em parte limitada pelas fontes (comerciais, muitas vezes) de dados. Outro impedimento é que essa pesquisa está avançando em muitas direções, mas sem integrar o conhecimento descoberto em relatos gerais do papel da mídia na mudança social. E a maior parte desse conhecimento não está sendo produzido nas ciências sociais, mas sim no setor privado e em contextos políticos. O big data recoloca também, em novas perspectivas, certas questões como a da privacidade e a da vigilância social.

Contemporary culture is a perverse assembly, as it seeks to liberate the selfish subject to the world of the sensitive and the drive. In the 20th century an increasing liberation of the drives occurred, connecting the neurotic consumer and the puritan perverse. The perversion is sought, but remaining clean, demanding strong musical beatings and varied substances varying between the postmodern neurotic consumer and the puritan perverse to this end. The result is a society in which everyone internalizes the law of the market to satisfy the drives, disconnecting the subject function. To understand the transformations of communication culture of the perverse city, a psychoanalytic theory of the drives and passions is necessary.

This study analyzes the documentary production of the Guarani Mbya Cinema Collective. By linking film studies with post-colonial criticism, our aim is to understand how indigenous filmmakers, insofar as they appropriate audiovisual registers about themselves, problematize the official versions and stereotypes about their history. From a decolonialist theoretical framework, we identify an imagery regime that configures acts of film and historical disobedience, besides unveiling the colonial character of the power, knowledge and essence surrounding the Guarani people. We also identified metalinguistic processes that mix filmic and historical spaces, create an intricate network between the films and force this cinema to move beyond its borders.

In the mediatization scenery, there is a complexification of the social relations, crossed by the media logic that convenes memories and transforms the notion of reference, potentializing the fixation of images into shadows. In our view, mediatized images present a triple condition: a) they affect the collective and the consolidation or not of social imaginary; b) they emerge from a dispute for the attribution of value to the visible, and c) they imply the development of technical domains and appropriations. In this article we discuss the circulation of what transits on the media imaginary linked to the attack to Charlie Hebdo magazine from the 2015 coverage and its intervals until 2018. As theoretical contributions, we mobilize Warburg and Didi-Huberman, as well as the specific contributions from mediatization, especially circulation and its phagic movements

This review aims to discuss the precepts of a possible “political epistemology of communication” as suggested by Lucrécia D’Alessio Ferrara in her book A Comunicação que não vemos, considering the imponderability of the communication processes built in extremely complex cultural environments and that are not always clear. To do so, it elucidates how the author pervades the thoughts of a few authors in the field of communication in order to indicate different possibilities of knowledge production, which are guided by doubt and by the elaboration of interferences, and the political implications of this process. Finally, it points out the possibilities of studying the political exercise of a city through such epistemological approach.

As transformações tecnológicas e culturais das últimas décadas têm mudado valores importantes para a vida social, entre eles a privacidade. Diariamente, jornalistas precisam ponderar sobre os limites entre as esferas pública e privada, e decidir se violam as suas fronteiras ou atendem às expectativas de resguardo das fontes. Este artigo objetiva saber como os jornalistas brasileiros se relacionam com a privacidade em seu cotidiano profissional e como orientam suas condutas em dilemas éticos. Para isso, aplicamos uma survey online para 120 jornalistas questionando sobre suas condutas em apurações e divulgações. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são profissionais de redação homens e mulheres, com diversas trajetórias e experiência, de todas as regiões do país. Os resultados sugerem que os jornalistas brasileiros valorizam mais a privacidade de suas fontes que as próprias, que existe um comportamento oscilante na divulgação de temas delicados como estupro, sequestro e suicídio, e que há muitas incertezas em como agir diante de novas tecnologias, como o uso de drones.

The purpose of this article is to present an alternative approach to the image sciences, as yet little explored, which work from the perspective of the body. We will start from the bioanthropological premise that the body claims for body, and will seek to think about the image based on Hans Belting’s image anthropology, mainly in relation to the theoretical triangulation of image, media and body, alongside Dietmar Kamper’s sociology of the body, whose critical diagnosis of current media culture and of its excessive self-referentiality demonstrates an unwanted immanence of the imaginary. We will also include those authors who have contributed to the Kamperian diagnosis: Vilém Flusser, Günther Anders, Jean Baudrillard, Byung-Chul Han and Christoph Wulf.

Este artigo propõe abordar a experiência de jogo como efeito do que chamamos de tonalidade afetiva lúdica para caracterizar, especificamente, o modo como nos relacionamos com o fenômeno lúdico e a sua manifestação na forma de jogo como uma possiblidade de relação do ser-no-mundo com o mundo vivido. A abordagem teórica foi aplicada empiricamente no jogo Ingress, jogo voltado a dispositivos móveis e que se desenvolve no contexto urbano. Os resultados encontrados permitem identificar, como efeito da afinação na tonalidade afetiva lúdica no game em questão, uma forte presença de sua cosmologia em situações nas quais os(as) jogadores(as) não estão efetivamente jogando. Isso indica que a narrativa e o gameplay do Ingress transformam a experiência espacial e urbana desses sujeitos.

Television in Latin America continues to be an important medium for the population; politics, history, the market, and especially the culture and its audiences keep television alive. In spite of the fact that millennials enjoy television from several screens, television contents remain as a reference in everybody’s audiovisual experiences. With changes in its reception, production, programming, and business models, television booms, instead of disappearing, amplifying itself into the televisual medium, keeping itself as a multicultural experience, and as a unique opportunity for its audiences’ reinvention of themselves.

Em A mídia e a modernidade, Thompson desenvolve uma teoria interacional dos meios de comunicação que distingue três tipos básicos de interação: 1) interação face a face; 2) interação mediada; e 3) quase-interação mediada. À luz da revolução digital e do crescimento da internet, este artigo apresenta um quarto tipo: a interação mediada on-line. Baseando-se na distinção de Goffman entre as regiões frontais e as de fundo, Thompson mostra como a quase-interação mediada e a interação on-line mediada criam novas oportunidades para o vazamento de informações e conteúdos simbólicos das regiões secundárias para as frontais, com consequências que podem ser embaraçosas, prejudiciais e, por vezes, extremamente perturbadoras.

Interview with the researcher Carlos A. Scolari, addressing the topics recently studied by him.

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