Permanent Professor
Ex-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Media and Everyday Life, Senior Lecturer at Fluminense Federal University’s Department of Social Communication and one the leaders of the MULTIS Research Group – Center for Studying and Experimenting with Audiovisual Production and Multimedia, certified by CNPq. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication – Journalism, a Master’s Degree in Multimedia (Unicamp) and a Ph.D. in Latin American Integration (PROLAM/USP). She researches Non-fiction Audiovisual production in Brazil and Latin America (particularly, documentary and television production), new audiovisual narratives in an Internet context (new formats and genres) and, also, the relationships between audiovisual production and science. She is the author and editor of the book ‘Media & Scientific Dissemination’ (co-authored by Renata Rezende) and of the book ‘Research in Media and Everyday Life’ (co-authored by Adilson Cabral and Alexandre Farbiarz). She is a member of PRALA – Platform for Reflecting on Latin American Audiovisual Production (Plataforma de Reflexão sobre o Audiovisual Latino-Americano) and LaPA – PPGMC’s Applied Research Lab. She is also the coordinator of BITS Ciência Magazine. She has worked as a lecturer at Anhembi-Morumbi University, UNIP, ESAMC and PUC-Campinas and has over 15 years of professional experience as a journalist.
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0641026140583587
e-mail: denisetavares@id.uff.br
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5692-7356
Research projects
Nonfiction audiovisual narratives: languages and interdisciplinary
Description: This “umbrella” project researches nonfiction narratives, especially the documentary from Brazil and Latin America, in a section that opens up to discussions around language in an interdisciplinary perspective. In this sense, it investigates the relationship between nonfiction narratives in their various interfaces: with photography and the web; with social movements, with science, with education and with history. The central objective is to locate the nonfiction narratives as productions that occupy a central aspect in the audiovisual universe, a position that unfolds in the search for new language experiments, of “transit” between the transmission and exhibition platforms (cinema, television and web) and also thematic research well cut out as “The scientific documentary: languages and themes in the context of multiplatform production” (2013-2016, with funding from CNPQ and Faperj). The current investigation, on the other hand, is developed under the title “On the trail of small seedings: everyday, imaginary, protagonism and language experiments in contemporary environmental documentary” (Edital Faperj, APQ1, 2019).
Situation: In progress; Nature: Research.
Students involved: Graduation: (1) / Academic master’s: (5) / Doctorate: (2).
Funder: Faperj (APQ1 – 2019)
Number of productions C, T & A: 22
Youth and suicide: media paths and their interfaces with Education (“Emerging Group” survey)
Description: The objective of this project that combines analytical and applied research is to investigate the relationship “Youth-suicide” in a cut that focuses the theme in its media traffic, that is, considering the role of the media as a producer of meanings and the elaboration of representations of this theme and also to analyze and discuss such paths / objects in dialogue with formal education. It is a project developed by a group of researchers, which is structured as analytical and applied research, of a multidisciplinary character, whose perspective is that of theoretical contribution to the areas of communication and the communication and education interface. The context that fosters the project is an almost epidemic diagnosis in relation to youth suicide, which has reverberated not only in the expansion of reports and / or similar on the subject, but also in audiovisual productions whose scripts are centered on this theme. In the section we investigated, entitled NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AND PRODUCTION OF SENSES IN CONTEMPORARY AUDIOVISUALS ABOUT YOUTH-SUICIDE from 1990-2020, we focus on audiovisual productions (including those circulating on social media) that work on this theme, discussing them from the narrative construction and production of meanings, observing, especially, the importance of daily life, of the imaginary and of language experiments in the processes of realization. Due to the breadth of the scope, we defined as works of investigation the works produced in the period between 1990-2020.
Situation: In progress; Nature: Research.
Teachers involved: 5; Students involved: Doctorate: (3).
Funder: FAPERJ (Editing “Emerging Groups”).
Number of C, T & A productions: 1
