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principalmente das redes sociais, o que são utilizadas tanto pelos clubes como pelos
torcedores. Entende que torcedores e clubes passaram a possuir mais autonomia ao
utilizar as tecnologias de informação e de comunicação, fornecendo possibilidades à
Ciência da Informação de um entendimento mais amplo da produção, organização e
apropriação da informação e das mediações em ambientes virtuais, considerando
aspectos culturais nesses processos. Entretanto, evidencia a possibilidade de ampliação
desse enfoque a partir de outros olhares sobre o mesmo fenômeno.
Palavras-chave: Mediação na internet. Futebol na internet. Comunicação mediada por
computador. Redes sociais.
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.