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ABSTRACT
This work analyzes the typography and the cultural manners as times have perceived it, not only
as a system producing series of texts, but the purposes ascribed to the aesthetics of the
characters and the compositions. It highlights the dynamic nature of the construction of
meanings that interact with men beyond mechanical operations and verbal representations. It
also reflects the ordering marks in the typographic symbolisms, expressed in their cultural
regimes of information. Dealing with this informational complexity is the main objective of this
research carried out in the master's degree of Information Science at Federal University of Ceará.
It relies on the social epistemology of the field to understand typography in a way not restricted
to physical and cognitive dimensions, but as a complex and relatable phenomenon to socially
constructed ordinations and meanings. For that, it uses anthropological and hermeneutical
assumptions which have been used by this field to update its object of study, which are the
notions of cultural mediation, neodocumentation and information regime. As an empirical
experiment, we opted to analyze the graphic design of the special notebooks produced by the
Ceará newspaper O Povo and the winners of the Esso Journalism Award in the category of
graphic creation for the newspaper Planeta seca (2012) and Sertão a ferro e fogo (2014). These
are thematic and investigative journalistic productions linked to the imaginary of the
northeastern backlands. These documents and their typographic symbolisms were interpreted
by the bias of their production process and by the professionals who sign their content, using the
hermeneutic-dialectical method and the interview and participant observation techniques. This
study of exploratory, qualitative and documentary nature made it possible to understand the
objects as infocommunicational phenomena resulting from social practices operated in the
newspaper environment. Thus, they become dynamic codes of interaction, in which mediators
play an active role in constructing unusual readings, hybrid narratives that relate to a diversity
of contexts and identities. In addition, its production process marks and at the same time
conditions the communication team and enterprise, which are now publicly recognized for this
type of relationship with information. It is concluded that these special notebooks and their
typographies integrate complex cultural and informational categories, by which they become
illustrative phenomena for the social paradigm of Information Science. This finding favors the
line of contemporary research in this field and its interdisciplinary tradition.
Keywords: Cultural mediation. Epistemology of Information Science. Information – Social
aspects. Mediation of information. Typographic practice – History.
SOBRE O AUTOR
Ismael Lopes Mendonça
Mestre em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal do Ceará. Especialista em Teorias da
Comunicação e da Imagem e graduado em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal do Ceará.
E-mail: ismaelmendonca@gmail.com
Recebido em: 22/09/2018; Aceito em: 24/09/2018; Revisado em: 10/11/2018.
Como citar este resumo:
MENDONÇA, Ismael Lopes. A tipografia como manifestação cultural. Informação em Pauta, Fortaleza, v.
3, n. 2, p. 125-126, jul./dez. 2018. Resumo de Dissertação. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32810/2525-
3468.ip.v3i2.2018.33775.125-126.
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