Mestrado em Comunicação

Based on a survey of Digital Journalism curricula of disciplines in undergraduate journalism colleges in the Brazilian federal capital, Brasília, and in the capital of Goiás State, Goiânia, this work makes a comparative study of the teaching methods adopted in those schools. According to the website of the Brazilian Ministry of education, there are currently 15 recognised courses in both cities. This article therefore proposes a discussion of the principles and values which should govern menus, curricula and course projects in the area of journalism education in an environment of convergence and digital tools, influencing not only study methodologies in journalism, as well as the classroom, the production of news, the journalists' professional culture, and the opportunities in the market. The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is considered one of the great thinkers of education. His ideas are used and applied throughout the world. Communication has always been one of the main concerns of the pedagogue and philosopher, who died in 1997. He used to see communication through the etymological meaning of “common, community, communion”, such as John Dewey and other American thinkers. For that Brazilian educator and creator of the so-called Pedagogy of the Oppressed, communication means "co-participation of the subjects in the act of knowing". Paulo Freire was born in the Northeast, one of the poorest regions of Brazil, later exiled to Bolivia and Chile. His ideas may apply to today's field of communication, collaborating with the analysis of the problems posed to teaching this discipline, in particular online journalism. The reasoning behind this proposal is that one of those early freireanos studies: a sense of community, of praxis in the political dimension of the citizen's freedom and right to be informed.

Este artigo se propõe a investigar as estratégias de abertura à participação dos usuários adotadas pelo Jornal do Commercio no projeto intitulado Voz do Leitor. A partir desse objetivo, apresentam-se os resultados de uma pesquisa qualitativa baseada em entrevistas e observação na redação do periódico pernambucano. Encontraram-se evidências de uma mudança de posicionamento em relação à participação do usuário no jornalismo, ainda que esta abertura seja também identificada como uma estratégia de fidelização da audiência.

Este artigo investiga a crescente influência de designers e programadores no trabalho jornalístico em redações on-line. Descritos como “tecnoatores”, estes profissionais conquistam visibilidade pelo domínio de conhecimentos especializados decisivos na produção da notícia. O objetivo é investigar como jornalistas, designers e programadores estabelecem negociações durante as rotinas produtivas. O estudo empírico está delimitado a seis redações on-line – três brasileiras e três portuguesas – onde foram feitas 17 entrevistas semiestruturadas com integrantes das categorias profissionais em questão. A análise qualitativa das entrevistas é composta de quatro eixos temáticos: 1) processos de negociação; 2) conceito de notícia; 3) distância física versus distância epistêmica; 4) hibridismo profissional.

This paper observes the growing influence of designers and programmers in the journalistic work within online newsrooms. Described as " tecnoactors " , these professionals acquire visibilityby mastering professional expertise, decisive in the production of news. The purpose here is to investigate how journalists, designers and programmers establish negotiations during production routines. The empirical study is delimited to six online newsrooms – three from Brazil and three from Portugal –where 17 semi-structured interviews with members of the professional categories were made. The qualitative analysis focus on four themes: 1) negotiation processes; 2) news concept; 3) physical distance versus epistemic distance; 4) professional hybridity.

This paper observes the growing influence of designers and programmers in the journalistic work within online newsrooms. Described as " tecnoactors " , these professionals acquire visibilityby mastering professional expertise, decisive in the production of news. The purpose here is to investigate how journalists, designers and programmers establish negotiations during production routines. The empirical study is delimited to six online newsrooms – three from Brazil and three from Portugal –where 17 semi-structured interviews with members of the professional categories were made. The qualitative analysis focus onfour themes: 1) negotiation processes; 2) news concept; 3) physical distance versus epistemic distance; 4) professional hybridity.