Blogs fotojornalísticos: outras narrativas possíveis na cultura digital

Abstract

This study, oriented specially by peircian phenomenology (Peirce, 2002), problematizes the conversion of blogs into a space to develop photojournalistic narratives which reveals unexplored layers of events. Based on the analysis of photographic essays published in two blogs, named Focoblog and Diário da Foto, related to two newspapers, named Zero Hora and Diário Gaúcho, respectively, the methodology which orients this study makes use, in the investigation of the referred to objects, of: interview with key informants (editor of photography in each blog), observation, capture and categorizaton of posts. Besides these, the methodology also relies on bibliographic research. Interviews with key informants were arranged through e-mail and took place in face-to-face interactions. During the interviews, interactions were audio recorded and notes were taken. Since this is a qualitative research, interviews were semi structured around guiding questions. In the process of the analysis, descriptions and inferences were made, aiming at perceiving the inscriptions in the layers of the facts in the photojournalistic corporate blogs. This study eventually points out the way through which photojournalistic blogs operated by newsroom professionals in traditional newspapers reconfigure contemporary photojournalistic practices by showing how, in this setting, the unique (bressonian) photography, typical of photojournalism, gives places to photographic sequences which narrate stories through images.