Open AccessPostcard and reversed journalism in narratives about cities
Author(s) -
Ana Cláudia Peres
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
brazilian journalism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1981-9854
pISSN - 1808-4079
DOI - 10.25200/bjr.v11n1.2015.811
Subject(s) - journalism , narrative , meaning (existential) , rationality , field (mathematics) , order (exchange) , sociology , perspective (graphical) , poetry , aesthetics , epistemology , point (geometry) , media studies , literature , art , visual arts , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics , economics
The city is a place of encounters. Journalism often appropriates raw facts and statistic data in order to narrate it. However, there are many ways to understand the urban experience within the field, through accounts that go beyond technical rationality. This paper attempts to understand journalistic narratives as producers of meaning and the city as a text, as proposed by Michel de Certeau. Therefore, we investigate narratives about the city in the magazine piauí as a starting point to examine discursive strategies that by combining the real and the poetic expand the fact, produce dialogues and expose other possible types of journalism. Above all, we aim to provide a reflection on the place that journalism occupies today within the field of knowledge, within an epistemological perspective that considers the material and symbolic, factual and emotional, ethical and aesthetic contexts.