Research Groups

Image, Body and Subjectivity

Starting year: 2002

Coordination of the Group: Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz and Paula Sibilia

Summary: Compose a field of interdisciplinary investigations able to account, with methodological and conceptual rigour, for the theme of the status of the image in modernity and contemporaneity, while analysing its mutations and its effects upon the perception of bodies and modes of subjectivity.

Researchers: Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz, Paula Sibilia, Ana Lucia Machado de Oliveira

Students: Alba Lívia Tallon Bozi, Julio Carlos Bezerra, Dally Velloso Lemos Schwarz, Jurdiney da Costa Pereira Junior, Daniele Pires de Castro, Lígia Azevedo Diogo, Flávio Alves de Castro Gomes, Mônica Proença da Silva, Nayara Matos Coelho Barreto, Alba Lívia Tallon Bozi, Elsa Belhomme, Asne Handlykken.

Research Axis: Communication Technologies and Aesthetics

Link to the [LATTES Platform].

* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

Media, Culture and Politics

Starting year: 1998

Coordinator of the Group: Afonso de Albuquerque -afonsoal@iis.com.br

Summary: Created in 1998 within the Masters Communication, Image and Information at UFF, the Research Group about Media, Culture and Politics has been dedicated to investigate issues relating to the political dimension of the means of mass communication from a cultural perspective. Currently, the group is structured around two main lines of investigation: the first concerns the Brazilian model of political propaganda on television; the second refers to the analysis of the relationship between journalism, culture and politics in Brazil. Both reflect lines of research developed by the coordinator before the creation of the group, although recently, the group has made a significant contribution to research in its field of research. First, it has served as a reference for the research of several master students, and particularly five student oriented by the group coordinator. Besides the research developed by these students for their dissertations, the group developed a survey: “An Other Fourth Power: the Press and Political Responsibility in Brazil”, financed by a grant from the National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) Research Productivity (2-C) and two grants from PIBIC, for the project “The Brazilian Media Criticism: The Observatory of the Press”. Currently, a research project is beeing developed: “The Grammar of Political Propaganda: the Horário Gratuito and the spots of the 2002 campaign”, which has requested two research grants. Finally, the work done within the Research Group has been made public through various publications, including a book, a book chapter and three journal articles since the creation of the research group, besides several texts presented in national and international texts.

Research Axis: Communication and Mediation

* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

Media, Memory and History

Starting year: 2003

Coordination of the Group: Marialva Carlos Barbosa – mcb1@terra.com.br/ &
Ana Lucia Silva Enne – anaenne@terra.com.br

Summary:

The group is dedicated to studying the similarities between media, memory and history through a series of projects registered with funding agencies since 2000. Featuring: 1) Media and ceremonies: an analysis of the ceremonial model on Brazilian television in the years 1960-1970; 2) Media and Memory in Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s; 3) Unmasking the face of the public – one hundred years of the press in Rio de Janeiro seen through the reader’s eye; 4) Media and History – Connections, Emblems and Vestiges of the 20^th Century; 5) Development of the CAPES-PRODOC research on Media and Social Exclusion, within UFF’s Postgraduate Program in Communication. Partial and final results from those researches have been presented to numerous conferences, especially the presentation of papers at COMPOS annual meetings, INTERCOM. Moreover, the results have been presented in international conferences as LUSOCOM, MCII, CELACOM. The group participates regularly to the National Meeting of Researchers, responsible for carrying out an inventory of the 200 year history of the press in Brazil (RedeALCAR). A series of articles have been published in leading journals in the area. We can cite, among them: 1) The publication of an article in the journal Fronteiras about a project on Media and Ceremonies; 2) The publication in the FGV journal about the project on Media and Memory; 3) The publication of book chapters; 4) The participation to and publication of the proceedings of the Media and History conference held at UERJ in 2003; 5) The creation of the laboratory on Media and Identity (LAMI) at the Postgraduate Commnication at UFF (PPGCOM).

Researchers: Ana Lucia Silva Enne, Felipe Pena de Oliveira, Ana Paula Goulart Ribeiro and Marialva Carlos Barbosa

Students: Cassia Louro Palha, Renata Machado dos Santos e Marcio de Souza Castilho

Research Axis: Communication and Mediation

* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

Nex – Research Group on Excess in Audio-visual Narratives

Starting year: 2009

Coordination of the Group: Prof. Dra. Mariana Baltar

Summary:

The Center for Studies NEX, linked to PPGCOM at UFF, discusses the relationship between gender narratives that share a popular form of excess, and the strategies put into action by mediatic audio-visual discourses. The Group’s research axes are: “Definitions and Limits of Excess” and “Excess and Serialization”. The research project “Pedagogy of Sensations – Genres of the Matrix of Excess and its Reappropriations in Contemporary Visual Culture” is bound to that group.

Home page: http://www.nexuff.blogspot.com/

Other participants: Prof Dra. Geisa Rodrigues, Pedro Curi (doctoral student), Luiz P. Gomes (master student), Érica Sarmet, Mariana Ramos, Fernanda Porto , Bruno Roger (IC).

Financing: Capes, CNPq (masters’ scholarships and undergraduate research grants), FAPERJ (masters’ scholarship and undergraduate research grants) and FAPERJ (installation aid).

* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

Politics of Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Processes of Subjectivity

Coordination of the Group: Cezar Migliorin

Summary:

The group focuses on two main tasks. The first consists in systematizing the connections and the research developments that work with issues involving aesthetics, politics and processes of subjectivity in contemporary audio-visual media and cinema. We follow the production of group members by meeting twice a month. The second task is to expand those questions with an interdisciplinary perspective. For this, we bring researchers to the group meetings who are involved with similar issues but in different research areas, such as design, urbanism, architecture, psychiatry, etc. The group also guides the dissertations, theses and course material of its members.

Participants:

Cezar Migliorin (coordenador)

Rodrigo Capistrano Camurça

Frederico Benevides Parente

Isaac Pipano Alcantarilla

Luiz Garcia Vieira Junior

Simplício Neto Ramos de Sousa

Ednei Genaro

* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

Financing: Capes, CNPq (masters’ scholarships and undergraduate research grants), UFF (installation aid).

Rhetorics of consumerism

Starting year: 2008

Coordination of the Group: Guilherme Nery

Summary:

The research group has developed a thorough investigation based on the rethorics of consomerism, especially in mass media. From the interdisciplinary diagnostic on the main characteristics of contemporary consumer society, the researches seek to map the semiotic and discursive strategies that promote a certain way of living, thinking and feeling: consumerism. The research group considers both the contents and values communicated by contemporary advertising as verbal and nonverbal communication, dealing with different theoretical approaches to advertising.

Participants:

Guilherme Nery Atem (coordinator) – Assistant Professor GCO/PPGCOM-UFF
Laura Martini Bedran – GCO-UFF
Thaiane Moreira Oliveira – Master Student/PPGCOM-UFF
Priscila Azeredo da Silva – Master Student/PPGCOM-UFF
Mariana Ayres Tavares – Graduanda GCO and PIBIC-UFF Fellow
Eneus Trindade Barreto Filho – Assistant Professor USP
Sandro Tôrres de Azevedo – Prof. UNESA/UVA
Maria Alice Nogueira – Profa. UNESA
Ronaldo Alípio da Costa Piloto – Prof. UVA
* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

Communication Technologies and Sociability

Starting year: 2002

Coordination of the Group: Simone Maria Andrade Pereira de Sá – sibonei@terra.com.br

Summary:

The group brings together researches that focus on communication technologies articulated to aspects of contemporary social life, thus contributing to the understanding of the computer as a communicational environment. At the moment, the principal axis of reflection focuses on the thematic of “electronic music, communication technologies and identity dynamics”. The research, which is supported by CNPq for 2002/2004, approaches electronic music in Brazil, taking it as an expressive inflection of cyberculture, and analyses the process by which local elements are appropriated in a clearly global movement. In this context, the main impacts relate to understanding the role of technologies – be it in the production of music, through musical “collages”, or be it in the way internet allows the exchange of information and the appearance of virtual communities related to those interests. Broadly, the repercussion of the research translates as a contribution to the understanding of how social segments negotiate their musical identity within a cultural reality permeated by information from diverse and deterritorialized sources; and also how Brazilian music processes foreign information and vice versa – in the context of possibilities for utilisation of means of communication such as Internet and digital technologies.

Research Axis: Communication and Information Technologies

* Research Group Registered in CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)

[LAN]

MEDIATIC NARRATIVES RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION LABORATORY

The [LAN] Mediatic Narratives Research and Experimentation Laboratory is focused on the studies of discourse and narrative issues, developing academic researches regarding, specially, narratives of conflict and the issue of the Other in the media discourse. It promotes weekly meetings among under-graduate and graduate students/researchers from the Communication Post-Graduate Program at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

We are a content producer and narrative research laboratory that aims at the development of relevant theoretical questions regarding media aesthetics and culture, as well as narrative proposition and experimentations. We focus on questioning the legitimate character of certain discourses and narratives, such as the “journalistic” ones, working altogether with the analysis of other media productions. In this comparison exercise, we have been able to learn about narrative structures and textual strategies and contribute to the production of distinct ways to “make a speech” in the media.

Fernando Resende (coordinator)

Adilson Soares, Ana Beatriz Paes, Ana Claudia Peres.Isac de Souza Guimaraes Junior, Jorge Carlos Felz, Natália Dias dos Santos, Patrícia D’Abreu, Leonardo Menezes, Letícia Rafaela Rossignoli, Rodrigo Marcelino

*Registered at CNPq