A critique of the technological reason
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 82351-03 |
45 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: A critical reflection on technology as a field of historical and philosophical study; The technological thought in the Western culture and its specialized theoretical reflection; Cyberculture: its problems and thinkers. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Advanced Seminar in Image Theory
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92398-03 |
45 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: The ontology of image from its beginning to different forms ; Its perceptive, representational and aesthetic ramifications; Analysis of images based on discussions of canonic works. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Audiovisual communication: narratives from screens to metaverses
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1977Y-03 |
45 |
Panorama of technical images used as narrative media from the 19th to the 21st century, observing aesthetic tensions and hybridizations. Rhetoric of audiovisual media such as cinema, television and their various digital successors. Interfaces, borders and translations between media. Animation and visual effects. Immersive media and embodied narratives. Critical analysis of assumptions and applications of such images. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1976G-03 |
45 |
The subject is dedicated to the study of communication processes present in the dynamics of culture, from the following points of view: popular manifestations and their practices, such as religion, football, music, arts, etc.; activism and intermediary communication agents; the media appropriations of cultural phenomena such as Carnival, commemoration of historical dates, festivities in general, religious events (for example, Festa de Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes); exchanges and symbolic exchanges in traditional local, regional and global societies (urban and rural); study of activist groups such as LGBTQIA+, fights to end violence against women, anti-racism movements. It also includes theoretical and methodological aspects resulting from scientific research, as well as empirical studies aimed at the interrelationships between communication and culture. The objective is to study the interface that unites communication and culture in the theoretical-methodological perspective of folkcommunication, folkmarkentig and folkmedia; media appropriations by popular groups; understand the different communicational actors in their places of speech, identifying processes of cultural resistance. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Cinema and Audiovisual Space Technological Intersections, Ruptures and Convergences
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9232A-03 |
45 |
This course seeks to study cinema as a producer of technological and language patterns that result in social and cultural behaviors for the development of contemporary audiovisual space. It seeks to understand cinema and audiovisual studies as broad and complex territories that function as ecosystems organized by technological, social, economic and cultural factors. It aims to foster an understanding of movies and audiovisual works as products resulting from these ecosystems and their subjectivities based on specific configurations of audiovisual aspects. It will better equip students to conduct multidimensional analyses of the phenomena of contemporary audiovisual expression, in view of the triad production-distribution-exhibition and their ramifications. Lastly, it will help students view technological transformations as determinant factors of sociocultural alterations of space and time. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Cinema and the audio visual industry
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62345-03 |
45 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Methodological and structural issues; Cinema as a basis of the audio visual industry; Structures and agents of the audio visual space; Technological and institutional frameworks, transformations and ruptures; Perspectives of contemporary audio visual practice; Cinema and technological intersections; Production, distribution and exhibition technologies; Cultural markets and practices, hegemonies, asymmetries, exclusion and outlines; Forms of operation, behavior and performance variables. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Communication Research Methodology
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231D-03 |
45 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: The academic production in this area; Scientific research in databases; The choices, types and purposes of research; The preparation of a research project; The scientific method; An overview of the field; The development of the field of communication; Research practice; Applications of research techniques in Communications. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| JUREMIR MACHADO DA SILVA |
28 years and 5 months |
Link |
| ANTONIO CARLOS HOHLFELDT |
29 years and 7 months |
Link |
| CLEUSA MARIA ANDRADE SCROFERNEKER |
50 years |
Link |
| ANDRE FAGUNDES PASE |
22 years and 1 month |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Communication, crisis and culture of care in organizations
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978Y-03 |
45 |
Knowledge of organizations and complexity. Risk society theory and society in metamorphosis. Place
and understandings about organizational risks and crises and their complex contexts. Ethics of care in
psychoanalysis and Ethics of care as a feminist theory in moral philosophy. Communication in
organizational crises as a field in legitimation. Possibilities for building a culture of care as a
communication strategy for organizational risks and crises. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Communication, politics of bodies, and decolonialities
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978U-03 |
45 |
The relationship between communication and the politics of bodies, considering the markers of race, gender, sexuality, age group, corporeity, and territory, among others, in contemporary cultures. The intersectional discussion in Communication. The debate on decolonial epistemologies and AfroDiasporic thought and traditional communities in the area of Social Communication. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| DEIVISON MOACIR CEZAR DE CAMPOS |
1 year and 8 months |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Communication: temporalities, assets and emerging expressions
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978V-03 |
45 |
Dialogues between the fields of Communication and History in synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Communication and technology and their impacts on temporalities and on continuities and ruptures on
expressions of history, memory and heritage. Intelligence and communication technologies: orality,
writing and information technology. Presences and absences of minorized social groups in the media, in
history and in policies and places of memory. Decolonial studies and contemporary manifestations. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Communications and Public Opinion
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92397-03 |
45 |
This course addresses the following topics: The concept of public opinion and its evolution from the pioneering thought of Plato and Aristotle, to Renaissance and historical perspectives of Hobbes (absolutism), Locke and Hume (Liberalism), Rousseau and, more recently, Wright Mills and Habermas. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Contemporary Topics in Communication and Digital Culture
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9232E-04 |
60 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: An overview of contemporary topics in communication and digital culture in their aesthetic and technological implications; It also fosters a discussion on the relationship between the media, contents and practices of communication and digital technologies; Lastly, it addresses a critical analysis of the assumptions and applications of such relationship. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Contemporary communication and digital practices: reflections and impacts on organizations
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19770-01 |
15 |
Scenario of the field of communication and its mutations: technology and society. Resignifications of time, space, memory: the new flows. Platforms, algorithms and datafication. Value generation processes. Social interactions and digital capitalism: the uberization of work processes. Disinformation and communication crises. Ethical and privacy aspects. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Contemporary communication and manifestations of information in entertainment
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92351-03 |
45 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: An overview of the transformations caused by the use of digital technologies in the everyday life and the changes in termos of information; A discussion on the impact of digital formats in poorly explored contexts for the transmission of information, as well as a combination between information and entertainment; Transforming electronic games into a contemporary and relevant means of communication. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Convergence and Media Ubiquitousness
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231B-03 |
45 |
This course seeks to revive the fundamental principles of information digitalization including a subsequent convergence of languages and medias. In addition to that, the course looks at always-on communication and its consequences for the present and future of communication. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| EDUARDO CAMPOS PELLANDA |
24 years and 1 month |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Critical Theory of Modern Society
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978X-03 |
45 |
Introduction to Theories of Justice and Social and Political Philosophy, exploring and deepening
problems and key concepts of Critical Theory. Critical Theory emerged in the last century, shortly after
the creation of the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) in 1923, around thinkers
such as Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and
others who developed an interdisciplinary research of modern society and contemporary culture,
becoming known as the Frankfurt School. Other authors, such as Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib,
Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Judith Butler, Rainer Forst, Amy Allen, Martha Nussbaum and Wendy
Brown, are part of this philosophical current to be thematized in this seminar, as well as its best-known
interlocutors such as Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, John Rawls and contemporary feminists.
Starting from the reading of selected texts by Michel Foucault, this seminar introduces, explores and
deepens current concepts, problems and discussions in Critical Theory and identity politics, especially
with regard to the Hermeneutics of the Subject, theories of sexuality and a critical theory of modern
society in Foucault's late writings and its critical reception in authors of feminism and queer theories,
especially Judith Butler. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Criticism to Technological Thinking
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9232B-03 |
45 |
Since the very beginning, communications studies have been interested, if not strongly engaged, in the origins of machine technology. The course has been designed to provide insights in order to better understand this relationship. It also seeks to think up a critical and systematic reconstruction of techniques, which is an essential category in Western and planetary world, through the analytical study of the piece of work on the topic, as proposed by philosopher Martin Heidegger. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Decolonizing communicational thought
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19753-03 |
45 |
Since the 1970s, postcolonial researchers have criticized the origins of modernity and the worldview-centered production of knowledge in European societies. Although the actions of restoring the stories and knowledge of indigenous, black, women silenced by the colonizers in the name of modernity are known by postcolonial and decolonial critiques, the decolonization of thought is one of the bases of black thinking, like Frantz Fanon; Abdias of the Birth; Ngugi Wa Thiong o, Lélia González among others.
For purposes of context, a group of Latin American researchers focused on the study of modernity/coloniality, based on the decolonial turn in ways of understanding the world, as pointed out by Nelson Maldonato Torres. The decolonial project points out that one of the actions of the colonization of the Americas and the Caribbean was the creation of human and nonhuman binarisms as the basis of racial-modern discourse. Mignolo (2011) describes this colonial difference as the dark side of Western modernity, which consolidated the establishment of geopolitics of knowledge and the split between modernity and coloniality. Thus, coloniality established - and still establishes - Eurocentrism as a dominant epistemological line in the academic disciplines, especially in the field of Communication, which still demands decolonization of its theoretical lines to expand the current world-system.
The purpose of this course is to present counterhegemonic theoretical contributions as an epistemological alternative to think about the communicational field and the perspectives already consolidated in their knowledge classifications. This consists of an epistemological effort, a political stance, and a space for exchanging ideas and research experiences, while seeking new ways of conceiving the world, knowledge, mind and gender. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Digital Error: Communication, Neomaterialism and Digital Culture
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1977Z-01 |
15 |
theories of communication; epistemology of communication; modes of existence; neomaterialist sociologias; platform studs; algoritmic culture; estudos de falhas (failure studies); philosophy da tecnica (Heidegger); theoria ator-rede (Latour); concretization of objects (Simondon); ontologia oriented a objetos (Harman); error and digital culture. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Discourse Practices in Organizational Settings
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92393-03 |
45 |
The topics this course intends to address are as follows: A discussion on the dimensions of discourse practices; An analysis of the place of emotion (s), affection and tenderness have in organizational discourse; An analysis of the construction / deconstruction of relationships. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Dispute between Images: narrative, aesthetics and politics
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978B-03 |
45 |
The subject has as its theme the dispute between images in the media, considering films as a privileged document, for the construction of the narrative about the political in contemporary times. The aesthetic analysis of the images will be articulated with the perception about the historicity surrounding the power of the false, proposing a reflection on social activism. The classes will be expository and dialogued through the discussions of articles and images, will also count on the participation of external guests. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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History of Journalism: from Antiquity to the Late 20th Century
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19781-01 |
1 |
Theoretical positions on the emergence of journalism; phenomena that contributed to journalism: from Antiquity to the Renaissance; periodism in Modernity and the segmentation of the press; the industrialization of the press and the professionalization of journalists; the media segmentation of journalism; journalism in a digitally shaped society. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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History of communication and theoretical paradigms
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 72390-03 |
45 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: History of technologies; Technological determinism; Orality and writing; Typography and the modern world; The electrical era; The Theory of the Medium; Marshall McLuhan; Harold Innis; Joshua Meyrowitz; Telecommunications technology and the Brazilian experiences; Communication culture and technology; Network theory; Information society. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Image and Imaginary
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9232D-03 |
45 |
Image, contexts and supporting structures. The topics this course addresses are as follows: Images of art, photography, design, advertising, journalism, cinema and internet as avatar of an archetypal image that ensure, configures and structures men in the world. Sociology of Image and Imaginary |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Image: sociality and imaginary
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62359-03 |
45 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Image, contexts and supports; Culture, Society, Imaginary and Science mediated by images; Images of art, photography, design, advertising, journalism, cinema and the internet as transformational agents of an archetypal image that guarantees, shapes and structures the human beings in the world. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Journalism in times of populism and erosion of democracy
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19751-01 |
15 |
Media and politics live today within what Daniel Innerarity calls "immediate satisfaction." It is in this "contemporary acceleration," in the words of Pierre Lévy, who warned us about the risks of a "derealization of the world" about two decades ago, that we have reached the era of information personalization and algorithms. How can we thus "look more to the world and less to the mirror", as Umberto Eco urged us in our time dominated by social networks, which attribute to any citizen or citizen an unprecedented large-scale communication power? The "society of spectacle" anticipated by Debord, now elevated to the condition of the ideology of a present, continues full of dismemberment, although desirably spectacular, reveals to us that it has in the pathos its main bloodstream. The absence or secondaryisation of logos in the processes of communication and information in contemporary (western) societies therefore implies the importance of the debate about journalism and politics, the same is democracy. The discussion is old. If a century ago Dewey and Lippman had already argued about the capacity of manipulation of the press, setting the foundations of democracy and the political conscience of citizens, today the debate must imply each of us, as citizens of the present society of "self-communication of masses "(Castells).
Confronted with a serious internal crisis - economic, technological and credibility - and loss of public authority, journalism fights the media space with other actors, who do not hesitate to appoint him as an adversary to be shot down. In this Manichaean view of the world the phenomena of "alternative facts" and "post-truth" flourish. Such a "way of doing things with words", which Innerarity calls political practice, is today made under the sign of disintermediation. The political personalism of the populist leaders corresponds (one) to the media increasingly hostage to the digital communicative logics, where the sharing and the engagement of the audience constitute a new news value. The conditions for the affirmation of a political-mediatic populism are thus met, which exploits, strategically and wisely, the weaknesses of journalism (reference) and evident democratic anorexia.
Paradoxically, increased communication is far from producing better information and contributing to a climate of greater transparency: "hyperinformation and hypercommunication do not inject light into obscurity" (Han). In a context where it is impossible to disconnect journalism from politics and the roles
Two fields must also play the role of other relevant social actors capable of influencing the media agenda, as in the case of professional sources, whether they represent companies or political interests (spin doctors). Communication, journalism, and political practice are exercised within that obsession with the instantaneousness of information Baudrillard tells us about, and whose speed
According to the thought of Elias Canetti, it would lead us to the very consequences of escape and "liberation" from the real. After all, what journalism does the contemporary citizen need and what journalistic practices should be deepened and developed in today's liquid society (Bauman), where even the exercise of politics dissolves the action of citizenship? |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Languages and Communication Technology
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9232C-03 |
45 |
The course Languages and Communication Technology intends to analyze the public's perception of the medias in different historical perspectives and the social transformations resulting from these changes. It seeks to describe, in view of certain typologies of analysis, the aspects that change and those that remain the same in the current scenario, both in terms of platforms and languages and what can be envisioned as trends for future perspectives. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Media Discourse
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92399-03 |
45 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: Language and Discourse; Media Discourse; Production of Meaning; Production and reception; The strategies of discourse configurations; Meaning effects in media texts. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| CRISTIANE MAFACIOLI CARVALHO |
17 years and 1 month |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Mentoring for Graduate Students of Social Communication
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978A-01 |
15 |
The objective of the course is to reflect on the possibilities for students to develop their research and career. The classes are organized based on a reflection on the main axes that make up student action: orientation for publications and participation in congresses, involvement in research group activities, and the presentation of the possibilities of available internationalization actions. Also, the discussion will focus on research ethics routines through the routines of the Plataforma Brasil. Throughout the meetings, the factors involved in the Four-Year Evaluation of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). The classes begin with the presentation of guidelines and norms, followed by discussions with students about the themes previously presented. The evaluation of the discipline will be the construction of an action plan within the topics addressed. This is a theoretical course. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Narrativas biográficas: condução e análise de entrevistas
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1916S-04 |
60 |
disciplina será no formato de ateliê. Durante o Seminário serão apresentados e discutidos os princípios epistemológicos, teóricos e metodológicos da condução de entrevista narrativa, transcrição e das possibilidades de análise. Ao longo do semestre os participantes conduzirão entrevistas narrativas, que serão discutidas e analisadas em sala com os demais participantes. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Organisations, Culture and Democracy |
Master's |
Not required |
| Organisations, Culture and Democracy |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Society and Democracy |
Master's |
Not required |
| Society and Democracy |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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| Political Institutions and Democracy |
The goal of this line of research is to investigate the main political institutions from theoretical and empirical perspectives. National, sub-national and international state institutions (Executive and Legislative powers), relations between State and Society (Political Parties, Elections, Civil Society), Judicial Powers (at national and local levels) and Brazilian foreign policy are central research areas. Additionally, political behavior will be a topic of study both within political institutions (political elites) and among the population in general, considering both traditional forms of participation, such as voting, and alternative forms, such as direct and/or deliberative democracy mechanisms. |
| Citizenship, inequality and social politics |
It studies the dynamics of modern societies from the perspective of the development of citizenship and public policies, focusing on its legal framework, its implementation and its implications. Researches social inequality in its various manifestations and different dimensions, as well as the stratification patterns of Brazilian society. It analyzes conflicts, the formation of new social cleavages and innovations in disciplining and social control practices. It examines public security policies and the role of the state in fighting violent crime and guaranteeing human rights. It investigates transformations in labor relations, the emergence of alternative modes of production, distribution and consumption of goods, the trajectory of social movements and organizations and their potential for transforming society. |
| Diversity, generations and daily life |
It analyzes contemporary social processes in their interfaces with different manifestations of cultural diversity. It investigates the generational dimension and its relations with public policies and the performance of institutions and social actors with diverse positions. Research intersections between social markers of difference (age/generations, sex/gender, social class/origin, race/ethnicity, nationality) in the configuration of social and cultural processes. Develops research through methodologies such as biographical analysis, ethnography and studies of everyday life. |
| Political sociology of relations international |
It studies phenomena that go beyond national borders using the methodological tools of the social sciences. It approximates the theories of International Relations with the approaches mobilized in Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology. Among the topics of interest in the line of research, the following stand out: (a) political activism and transnational social movements, international non-governmental organizations and their interactions with States in a multilevel perspective; (b) international migration in its political, cultural and social aspects; (c) political institutions and processes, including those related to democracy, the defense of human rights, integration and the production of public policies. It welcomes, in broader terms, all academic research topics that can benefit from the dialogue proposed in the political sociology of International Relations. |
Organizational Communication
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231F-03 |
45 |
This course intends to discuss the possibilities of interpretation of the environments and organizational life. It intends to show the interfaces between communication and organizational culture.
Lastly, it questions the complexity of communication in organizational environments. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
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Posthumous Memories of the Written Press
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62332-01 |
15 |
In this seminar we analyze the reasons that led to the eclipse of the written press in the new media ecosystem. The influence of the digital and the web in the production, distribution and consumption of journalistic products is analyzed, as well as a preview of what the future of journalism might be. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Scheduled Readings in Organizational Communication
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19755-03 |
45 |
Contemporary trends in Organizational Communication and their interfaces with related areas. Communication and organizational culture in a critical perspective. The (de) construction of social actors in the complex scenarios of organizations. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Scientific Communication
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1938E-02 |
30 |
The speed and disseminated access to information nowadays, associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, have increased the need for adequate communication between professors or researchers and the general public through various platforms. In addition to the skills intrinsically necessary for academic work, the skills that prepare professionals for active participation in the media must be properly trained, avoiding the isolation of knowledge producers and leaving the general population receiving only information from unreliable sources.
The purpose of the course is to prepare the graduate student to prepare lectures, interviews and management of social media. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Pediatrics |
Master's |
Not required |
| Pediatrics |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Scientific Research Communication: academic strategies and media visibility
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1976F-01 |
15 |
The visibility of scientific research is increasingly closer to the relevance of the investigations themselves. There are two axes in this process: the academic, directly linked to official assessments, and that of communication, which brings society closer to developed knowledge. With the expansion of channels and the intense sharing of data, the role of Science also depends on strategies for understanding its importance in everyday life, in all areas. The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic and contemporary informational disorder further underscored the importance of researchers' role as communicators of their activities, whether through contact with the press or the use of digital social networks. In this seminar, the objective is to discuss valid strategies for scientific dissemination, understanding how these contexts shape the dissemination of knowledge. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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|
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Seminar I
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62330-01 |
15 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Topics in communication delivered by guest professors from Brazil and overseas; Elements of culture, media and technology; Aspects of communication theory and methodology; Topics in communication in companies and socio-political practices; The course will provide deeper insights into the works of relevant scholars for research in communication; Two seminars are expected to take place every semester, and the contemporary character of the topic or its uniqueness and innovativeness in the program will be used as criterion for selection. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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|
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Seminar II
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62331-01 |
15 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Topics in communication delivered by guest professors from Brazil and overseas; Elements of culture, media and technology; Aspects of communication theory and methodology; Topics in communication in companies and socio-political practices; The course will provide deeper insights into the works of relevant scholars for research in communication; Two seminars are expected to take place every semester, and the contemporary character of the topic or its uniqueness and innovativeness in the program will be used as criterion for selection. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Seminar IV
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62333-01 |
15 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: Topics in communications delivered by guest professors from Brazil and overseas; Elements of culture, media and technology; Aspects of communication theory and methodology; Communications topics in companies and sociopolitical practices; Works by renowned scholars for research in communications. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Seminar The Real Midiatico
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19752-01 |
15 |
The seminar proposes to introduce concepts and theories of social phenomenology as well as socio-anthropology of the imaginary focused on communication, focusing on some central issues that the communication sciences and the humanities have in common, in which they elaborate their legitimacy and validity. If the question of individual and collective actions becomes central to the sociological unraveling of social bonding, communication in turn can be understood as the engine of these actions. Sociology as well as anthropology, because they work on the federative theme of otherness, produce discourses on the communitarian inclinations of societies and their implications in the modern world.
Thus, violence and its treatment by the media, that is, the administration of violence divulged as relational object (police telejournalism, pornography, terrorism, etc.), vector of communication messages and source of knowledge, could be considered as a characteristic example of an extreme communicational act that uses fears and diverse fascinações to be implemented in the social fabric. We will also address a reflection on the status of the image and the reception of the
Imaginary paradigm within contemporary cultures: what are the "servilisms" of the image, how did the symbolic imaginary shift from an unproductive qualifier to a profitable perspective?
In the same vein, we will investigate the phenomenological referential whose favorite themes (communication of consciences, reality, truth, essence, appearance, etc.) can help us better understand the foundations of "communicating" as a civilizational obsession. The use of these concepts applied to the proposed perspective will enable us to analyze some aspects of a paradoxical but fruitful confrontation between the various symptoms of modern individualism (living for and for oneself) and new relational forms whose technological matrix becomes increasingly evident. Thus, Daily and Common become new operational directions in social networks and numerical media, whereby each offers its own existence for collective consumption. Therefore, the investment of this communicational architecture, perpetuated by the needs of both commercial profit and the existential exchange of information and experiences, can lead us to think of a possible relational format already indicated in the mid-twentieth century by Georges Bataille when he speculated about the impossibility of all true communication within the spectrum of the emotional community. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Seminar V
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 62334-01 |
15 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: Topics in communications delivered by guest professors from Brazil and overseas; Elements of culture, media and technology; Aspects of communication theory and methodology; Communications topics in companies and sociopolitical practices; Works by renowned scholars for research in communications. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Seminar XIII
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92302-01 |
15 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Topics in communication delivered by guest professors from Brazil and overseas; Elements of culture, media and technology; Aspects of communication theory and methodology; Topics in communication in companies and socio-political practices; The course will provide deeper insights into the works of relevant scholars for research in communication; Two seminars are expected to take place every semester, and the contemporary character of the topic or its uniqueness and innovativeness in the program will be used as criterion for selection. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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|
|
|
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Seminar Xx
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92314-01 |
15 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Topics in communication delivered by guest professors from Brazil and overseas; Elements of culture, media and technology; Aspects of communication theory and methodology; Topics in communication in companies and socio-political practices; The course will provide deeper insights into the works of relevant scholars for research in communication; Two seminars are expected to take place every semester, and the contemporary character of the topic or its uniqueness and innovativeness in the program will be used as criterion for selection. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Seminar on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Social Communication Research
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 197BC-01 |
15 |
The seminar explores the fundamental concepts of AI and its applications in Social Communication,
whether in the instances of research and its incorporation into practices. Fundamental principles of AI:
machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, and generative artificial intelligence,
dedicated to communication research activities. Ethical issues related to using AI in Social
Communication based on case studies and tools. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| EDUARDO CAMPOS PELLANDA |
24 years and 1 month |
Link |
| ROBERTO TIETZMANN |
22 years and 8 months |
Link |
| ANDRE FAGUNDES PASE |
22 years and 1 month |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Seminar on Communication and Collective Emotions
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92394-03 |
45 |
This seminar addresses the relationship between communication and emotion, especially on how collective humor is perceived through entertainment, political incitement and ruminations, and on the manipulation of human feelings through showbiz, sport and religion, among other similar events. It is assumed that every form of communication implies the manipulation of feelings and the awakening of some emotion. It is then, an interdisciplinary topic that has ramifications in several areas, including, but not limited to, international relations, organizational communication, advertising, journalism and functional neuroimaging. The comprehensive and solid literature review that is used will show the type of affective interaction that occurs on the internet today. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| JACQUES ALKALAI WAINBERG |
39 years and 1 month |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Seminar on Communication and Collective Emotions Research Seminar
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 92395-03 |
45 |
This course is intended to bring graduate students together in order to present and discuss the theoretical and methodological aspects of their research projects and also to provide them with insights into epistemology based on the professor's feedback. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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|
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Seminar: Media landscapes and imaginary: matrices, identities and emergencies
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1977X-01 |
15 |
The Covid-19 pandemic, by revealing the weaknesses of the paradigms that characterize modern life, radicalized and exacerbated a cultural process in action since the 18th century: the mediatization of our existence, a condition in which media landscapes precede and exceed our material lives. . Our canvases thus became our true spaces and languages: places of resistance, recreation and recreation, but also prisons. It is a show without entertainment with rituals capable of accelerating the anthropological mutation that advances in contemporary societies, putting its pivots in crisis: humanism, the rational and separate individual, production, reason and the cult of progress. The objective of this seminar is to understand the main matrices, derivations and emergences of these scenarios in the light of the sociology of imaginary, mediological and visual studies.
Film, photography, music videos, television series and social media from Instragram to OnlyFans, from Facebook to TikTok and Snapchat are devices where the complex iconography of the new millennium self, whose roots are ancient, is rejected. Starting from the tropes of invisibility, anomie and restlessness in the different audiovisual languages, we can describe and interpret fundamental figures of contemporary culture such as Afrofuturism, the aesthetics of discontent, dystopia and pornoculture, in a dynamic of comings and goings between blackness and darkness. , highlighting the tragic joy that accompanies and celebrates the decline of the West and the lost futures of modernity. At stake, in many ways, is an imaginary and practices that, by completing our culture, also generate a "new flesh" of which we are, at the same time, the artists, the works, the objects, the information and the spectacle. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Social Communication, Entertainment and Digital Games
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978Z-03 |
45 |
Discussion on Social Communication in spaces of entertainment, social networks and digital games.
Overview of the transformations deriving due to the use of emerging technologies in culture. Analysis of
the platformization of Social Communication after digital networks. Analysis of the digital game as a
contemporary and relevant medium, as well as strategies for research in the area. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sociology of Communication: Culture and Contemporary Behavior
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231G-03 |
45 |
The topics this course addresses are as follows: Modernity, post-modernity and hypermodernity; The Society of the Spectacle; Communication and complexity; Hyper-reality and simulation; Tribalism, individualism and being together; Virtual networks and digital culture; The scope, epistemology and sociology of communication; Imaginary, ideology, subjectivity and representation; Understanding, interpretation, communication and information; Technique, technology and narratives; Culture, entertainment and development. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| JUREMIR MACHADO DA SILVA |
28 years and 5 months |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sociology of Music
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19747-03 |
45 |
The discipline approaches fundamental concepts of Sociology of Music, as music genres, music scenes, musical performances, to broach musical practices and their social processes. The objective of the discipline is examine carefully theoretical questions, using empirical studies of Sociology, History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Communications to understand massive popular music. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Technological Narratives: Cinema, TV and video in the digital era
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 72387-03 |
45 |
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Man-made forms of representation of the world in view of the invention of photography; The new figurative logic; Pinhole images, the different support for motion images and their several means of dissemination; New languages, new narrative forms, hybridizations; The different audio-visual discourses: documentary and fictional, journalistic and advertising, naïve and persuasive, artistic and ideological; Digitality and cinema, TV and video codes; The internet and its derivatives; The technological and formal transformations of the means of communication occurred in the 20th century, with emphasis on the impacts the digital technologies bring to the contemporary audio-visual narratives. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Television and other forms of communication: narratives, genres and technologies
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231A-03 |
45 |
This course intends to study the production of meaning in journalistic, fictional and entertainment contents developed throughout its hegemonic history. It is intended to explore the changes produced by the convergence of medias and the respective uses of expanded contents for other medias. It is intended to address concepts such as expanded TV, Hyper TV, Social TV and Transmedia: their narratives and temporalities. It fosters new genres, formats and video languages for social media in streaming, types and/or formats. Lastly, it intends to revisit the role of reception by looking at audience and consumption as it uses the contemporary concepts of audience, collaboration and propagation. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Television, Imaginary and Anti-Racism
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 197BE-01 |
15 |
This seminar will discuss the role of television and television journalism in stimulating imaginaries and
maintaining racism in Brazil. TV is approached as an imaginary technology, which produces worldviews,
myths, lifestyles and values experienced in society. Television journalism is also presented as a possible
tool for promoting anti-racism, through the implementation of professional practices and commitment
to the ethical principles of the profession. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| LARISSA CALDEIRA DE FRAGA |
|
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
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The contemporary documentary and the Levantes: protagonists, narratives and imaginary.
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 19754-01 |
15 |
In a media scene strongly marked by the narratives of oneself (in its multiple signatures) there is, in recent documentary production, an apparent detour: films and videos that have focused on narratives that articulate collective protagonisms made by dialogues that somehow revive utopian projects, resistances and expectations of social transformation. Discussing the construction of these protagonisms, language strategies and narrative structures, as well as the imaginary that support these productions, is the aim of this course. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
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Theories of Communication
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231E-03 |
45 |
This course provides a synchronic analysis of the main trends in information and communication theory; it revises concepts and provides a historical contextualization of these theories. The course seeks to provide students with deeper insights into concepts that are already known to them and introduce them to contemporary theories and perspectives, including in Latin America. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Theories of Journalism
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 9231C-03 |
45 |
This course intends to look at, analyze and reflect upon the current features of news, arising out of journalism practice, with focus on the most relevant journalism theoreticians all over the planet, especially those from Brazil, the US, Portugal and Spain. A bibliographic analysis will serve for students to reflect to what extent the existing theoretical concepts on the characteristics of journalism and news, which are disseminated in the academia, can contradict or confirm the current practices. Besides, in view of the developmental conditions of Brazil, the course intends to investigate the social, political and economic reasons that justify the changes in journalism practices and indicate a way forward, by taking into consideration the new technologies and the new forms of interaction of several existing publics, including, but not limited to: readers, listeners, TV spectators and internet users. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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Theory and Research in the History of Journalism
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 197BD-01 |
15 |
Brazil has a tradition of more than 150 years when it comes to research in the history of journalism, from
the press to digital media. Presenting his historiographical trends and questions is the purpose of this
seminar. The stages of development of the field of knowledge will be worked on, critically and at the
same time systematically, based on its main authors, works and institutions. |
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| OTAVIO DAROS |
|
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
To follow is a list of topics this course will address: Cinema: socio-cultural organization and imagination;
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 72389-03 |
45 |
Conceptual problems, theoretical issues and constructive processes; Sociocultural significance in the organizational system of cinema; Social imaginary in our current times as an issue to be addressed; Analysis of movies as privileged documents; Expressions and fundamentals: discussions on papers and authors; Students will be required to write an essay addressing the syllabus' contents. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
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| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 197BA-03 |
45 |
|
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| CRISTIANE FINGER COSTA |
28 years and 8 months |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 197BB-03 |
45 |
|
| Professors |
Home time |
Lattes |
| CRISTIANE FREITAS GUTFREIND |
20 years and 8 months |
Link |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
|
|
|
|
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| COD |
Workload |
Description |
| 1978C-01 |
15 |
|
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area |
Type |
Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Master's |
Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Organisations, Culture and Democracy |
Master's |
Not required |
| Organisations, Culture and Democracy |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Society and Democracy |
Master's |
Not required |
| Society and Democracy |
Doctorate |
Not required |
| Research line |
Description |
|
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|
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| Political Institutions and Democracy |
The goal of this line of research is to investigate the main political institutions from theoretical and empirical perspectives. National, sub-national and international state institutions (Executive and Legislative powers), relations between State and Society (Political Parties, Elections, Civil Society), Judicial Powers (at national and local levels) and Brazilian foreign policy are central research areas. Additionally, political behavior will be a topic of study both within political institutions (political elites) and among the population in general, considering both traditional forms of participation, such as voting, and alternative forms, such as direct and/or deliberative democracy mechanisms. |
| Citizenship, inequality and social politics |
It studies the dynamics of modern societies from the perspective of the development of citizenship and public policies, focusing on its legal framework, its implementation and its implications. Researches social inequality in its various manifestations and different dimensions, as well as the stratification patterns of Brazilian society. It analyzes conflicts, the formation of new social cleavages and innovations in disciplining and social control practices. It examines public security policies and the role of the state in fighting violent crime and guaranteeing human rights. It investigates transformations in labor relations, the emergence of alternative modes of production, distribution and consumption of goods, the trajectory of social movements and organizations and their potential for transforming society. |
| Diversity, generations and daily life |
It analyzes contemporary social processes in their interfaces with different manifestations of cultural diversity. It investigates the generational dimension and its relations with public policies and the performance of institutions and social actors with diverse positions. Research intersections between social markers of difference (age/generations, sex/gender, social class/origin, race/ethnicity, nationality) in the configuration of social and cultural processes. Develops research through methodologies such as biographical analysis, ethnography and studies of everyday life. |
| Political sociology of relations international |
It studies phenomena that go beyond national borders using the methodological tools of the social sciences. It approximates the theories of International Relations with the approaches mobilized in Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology. Among the topics of interest in the line of research, the following stand out: (a) political activism and transnational social movements, international non-governmental organizations and their interactions with States in a multilevel perspective; (b) international migration in its political, cultural and social aspects; (c) political institutions and processes, including those related to democracy, the defense of human rights, integration and the production of public policies. It welcomes, in broader terms, all academic research topics that can benefit from the dialogue proposed in the political sociology of International Relations. |
