The UFJF Graduate Program in Communication has two Research Areas:
Communication processes are a privileged locus for understanding social life in its multiple dimensions (political, economic, scientific, technological and cultural, among others), since they produce socio-historical effects and are also constitutive of the modes of identification and subjectivation of individuals and collectivities. This is the phenomenon of the capillarization of media environments, which reconfigure not only traditional communication processes but also, and continuously, various spheres of social life itself. Mediation, mediatization and, more recently, platformization, given their power of circulation, consequently open up the opportunity for other types of knowledge to be mobilized at interface, in addition to the legitimate approaches more immanent to the area. Given this context, research in the area scrutinizes these interfaces in order to understand how communication processes and media environments reconfigure everyday life, institutions, power relations, symbolic exchanges and agency.
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Digital networks connect devices and systems around the world, mainly through languages and technology building visibility and increasing digitized memories. Languages, combined with human and post-human technology, hybridize and engender themselves in ecosystems. The connection of data challenges studies of memory, skills and languages which are expanded by media, platforms and sign possibilities. The study of networks encompasses the expansion of digital culture inserted in a new era of history and its narratives. The area aims to understand and deepen around emerging social issues in reconfigurations manifested in languages and, in turn, present in communication processes whether media or not. It takes into account the different forms of production, sharing and consumption; as well as displacements and hybridizations, from narratives in the process of mutation, flexible territorialities, mobile and overlapping extremities, memories and cognitive, affective, aesthetic, critical, media and artistic competences, that is, through semiosis.
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