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    LINES OF RESEARCH

    Areas of Concentration

    SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

    The Graduate Program in Communication at the UERJ Faculty of Social Communication aims to provide a space for research and reflection on the communication phenomenon from the intersection of three dimensions seen here as fundamental: the construction and dissemination of media messages; the cultural and material repercussions of communication and information technologies (especially so-called “new technologies”); and the urban space as a fundamental locus of mass communication and generator of sociocultural representations. This field of interest must still significantly develop critical reflection capable of offering a better understanding of the intellectual and practical dimensions involved in its complexity.

    Lines of Research

    MEDIA CULTURE, IMAGINARY, AND THE CITY

    Advisory: Prof. Cintia Sanmartin Fernandes

    This line of research investigates the relations between communication and the city from a cultural perspective, focusing on multiple communication practices that support, shape, and mediate the urban experience. The mutual crossing between city and media is accepted as a place of production of meaning and formation of contemporary imaginaries. Considering that the city is the locus par excellence of the circulation of these imaginaries, we seek to think about the ways in which such phenomena distinguish the space and condition generate meanings in urban environments. It investigates cultures in the media, as well as their sociocultural practices and cultural products, encompassing aesthetics, languages, styles, consumption, and cultural and artistic identities. Its members research social imaginaries and their relation with technologies, which promote new ways of being, actions, lifestyles, interaction, leisure, entertainment, coexistence, relationships, and contact in everyday life. Thus, this line of research investigates the multiple communication phenomena highlighting the urban space, especially those related to art, technologies, science, the body, popular culture, consumption, sports, and their representations.

    COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE TECHNOLOGIES

    Advisory: Profª. Erick Felinto de Oliveira

    This line of research dedicates itself to investigating the articulations between technology, communication, and culture. The relation between communication technologies and the ordering of social categories and of the imaginary, showing subjective formations and the emergence of new ways of perceiving, feeling, and knowing, constitute the central axis which structure discussions and research. This reflection favors some trends of contemporary communication (digital models, networks, simulation processes, and mobility) without hindering, however, the study of other structures and communication systems. It is ultimately a question of investigating the material impacts, the affective-cognitive configurations, and the sociocultural repercussions of different communication technologies in the contexts of their production, use, and dissemination.