Permanent Professor
Vice-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Media and Everyday Life (PPGMC-UFF) and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Communication of Fluminense Federal Fluminense (UFF). She has completed her Post-doctoral research in Communication and Culture (ECO/UFRJ), has earned a Ph.D. in Communication and a Master’s Degree in Communication, Image and Information, both at UFF. She is the author of the following books: “Mediatized Death” (A Morte Midiatizada), nominated for the Jabuti Prize in 2016, and “Media and Scientific Dissemination” (Mídias e Divulgação Científica). She is a Journalist, having graduated from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, where she also thought at the Department of Social Communication, and a specialist in Communication, Technology and Information Management (Faculdade Cândido Mendes, Vitória). She has extensive experience in audiovisual narratives (particularly, TV and video). She worked for approximately 8 years as a reporter, producer, and editor at TV Gazeta/TV Globo in Vitória (ES) and at the University of Espírito Santo’s community TV. She is a researcher at the Research Group Multis – Center for Studying and Experimenting with Audiovisual Production in a Multimedia Context – and the coordinator of LEA (Audiovisual Experimentation Lab).
Research Projects
Narratives and Affections of the Media Daily Life
Description: The project aims to analyze and understand the role of the media as a builder of everyday life through different narratives, from the perspective of affects – as affectivity and affectation -, mapping the languages, representations and productions of meaning. It is an expanded project that includes subprojects, whose proposal is divided into two main axes: analysis of audiovisual and Internet narratives. In general, methodologically, it is in tune with research based on the sociology of everyday life and, therefore, it comprehends ordinary media productions as a comprehensive theory and method of social life arrangements. In this context, the concepts of memory and forgetfulness, time and space, ethics and aesthetics are taken as beacons for the reflections of everyday life mediated in affective circuits. Key words: Media; Daily; Narratives; Affections.
Youth and suicide: media paths and their interfaces with Education (Emerging Group)
Description: The objective of this project that articulates analytical and applied research is to investigate the youth-suicide relationship in a section that focuses on the theme in its media coverage, that is, considering the role of the media as a producer of meanings and a producer of representations of this theme and , also, to analyze and discuss such paths / objects in dialogue with formal education. The approach is divided into three axes: survey and analysis of media productions; identification of the impacts of this survey with young people from public schools in Rio de Janeiro and training workshops with students from the Pedagogy Course at Universidade Federal Fluminense. It is a multidisciplinary project, whose perspective is that of a theoretical contribution to the areas of communication and the communication and education interface. It also intends to develop audiovisual products that express the research paths and results, in addition to including processes that involve, as one of its consequences, the formation of research networks on the subject, especially with researchers in Public Health. 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. Thus, it is of interest to the researchers of the team formed here, to analyze, investigate and discuss this specific focus of investigation delimited by the cut and specific activities presented here, considering them inserted and in dialogue with the research they are currently developing.
Funding: FAPERJ (Editing “Emerging Groups”).
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