The metaphor of narrative construction as wire weaving, usually taken in a perspective that is purportedly poetic, can be a conceptual and methodological trap when we are faced with the production of textualities about events involving physical and symbolic violence, such as those identified with homophobia ,and aggressions and deaths of women. Our objective is to propose, as an alternative, to think of communi...
The notion of context, which is fundamental to a series of analytical perspectives, gains in this article problematizations that highlights its instability, particularly defined from the connections with temporality. We seek to show that, in relation to textualities, context relations go beyond the dichotomy “inside” or “outside” of the text, since they are marked by the historical, theoretical and epistemologi...
This essay proposes the notion of pertinence as a guiding element in communication research. If not a long time ago challenges such as defining the “communication object” seemed to be the main difficulties facing communication research, today choosing the best methodological approaches remains an unresolved issue. Even if at a first glance methodological hesitation seems to be negative, looking from another poi...
Reflexão sobre a inserção das atividades jornalísticas nocotidiano social, o que à primeira vista pode parecer escrever sobre oóbvio, afinal, a narrativa jornalística não é, para muitos estudiosos, senãouma espécie de “crônica do cotidiano”. No mínimo, é o cotidiano, comseus múltiplos acontecimentos, a matéria-prima essencial ao trabalho dojornalista. Nele é que se desenrolam os fatos que se transformarão nasin...
In this article we utilize the concept of reflexivity, proposed by Anthony Giddens, in order to understand some of the conditions that involve the relationships between journalism and society in the domain of modernity. The first movement takes place around the notion of reflexivity, needed for the comprehension of the transformations that modernity has gone through. In a second movement, we take as reference t...