A profissionalização do contador de histórias contemporâneo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Information has a main role in contemporary life and is the base for decision-making in several social spheres. At the same time, excess of both information and technological and visual stimulus makes the individual feel incapable of following changes and transformations in life and society; changes that occur in a vertiginous way. People feel the need to break values such as immediatism and discardability, thus experiencing a nonchronological time, having encounters, exchanges and sharing. Storytelling, by opening space to needs of communication, translating daily events, memories, anguishes, joys and the pleasures of existence through words is one way to experience this encounter. The following dissertation concerns the reappearance of the storyteller, in his/her contemporary configuration, during the later decades of the 20th century, aiming to inquire how storytellers comprehend their professionalization through the presuppositions that define a profession under the perspective of sociologist Eliot Freidson (1998): expertise, accreditation and autonomy. For such reason, an exploratory and descriptive research was carried out. The universe of the research comprised Brazilian storytellers that auto-identified themselves as such and developed storytelling as a paid activity. The tools used for data collection were: questionnaires given to twenty storytellers that have promoted their work through the internet and interviews with ten storytellers living in Greater Florianopolis. The interviews and questionnaires were analyzed through Bardin#s content analysis technique, which involves treatment of the information contained in the messages, aiming to verify hypotheses and discover what is hidden behind the manifested content. Taking under consideration Freidson#s three presuppositions, storytelling can not yet be considered a profession, given that formal conducts are not obligatory in this art and there are no ways of accreditation. However, storytellers that exercise their paid jobs can be considered professionals, due to their relation with the market, fact that was confirmed by the interviewees. Autonomy seems to be an indispensible condition in their work, due to the fact that storytellers develop their performance according to ideological choices, personal preferences and technical knowledge.

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ciencia da informacao contadores de historias profissões ciência da informação

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