IFCH Group works research and extension in audiovisual and Brazilian cinema

The Nucleus of Analysis of Symbolic Goods Variables in the Political Economy of Communications, Study Group on Political Communication (nave.gecompol) emerged in 2002, first at the University of Passo Fundo (UPF). Over time and with the coordinator's specialization, Professor Luciano Miranda, the work migrated to the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), which still maintains two colleagues in the group, until arriving at UFRGS and IFCH, where today works in research and extension.

According to Luciano, at the beginning, the group's activities were aligned with audiovisual and in particular with the cinema. “However, I already researched topics related to digital communication, which resulted in my first book“ Online Journalism ”(UPF Editora, 2004). The teat or interfaces of political, communicational and legal studies in the face of these empirical objects arose. commented.

At UFSM, the group was certified with the DGP (Research Groups Directory) of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). And he started to study issues related to the political economy of the Internet, especially taking into account digital inclusion processes, and the political economy of film, both focusing on political communication.

Currently, the group has eight participants between teachers (UFRGS and UFSM) and undergraduate and postgraduate students. Nave.Gecompol releases its work, extension courses and meetings on Instagram, at @nave.gecompol.

Today, the areas of political communication, political production policy, studies on elites, social theory and applied social theory are the main objects of study in the nucleus. From the research on the connections between applied social and social sciences, with emphasis on empirical objects in the political economy of cultural production and communication and information, the teacher highlights an extension course, which was born from a project registered with UFRGS.

"Currently, we have an institutionalized research project at UFRGS, called" Conditions of Appreciation of Specific Social Capitals in the contemplation of audiovisual producers in the National Cinema - Ancine "edicts, which generates unfolding in extension through the course" Rediscovering Cinema through its political institutions ", whose new edition is underway," he explained.

The research project aims to assemble a database on Brazilian audiovisual producers focused on Ancine, as well as organization of image and sounds related to audiovisual productions that are research objects. There are still other projects in the elaboration and registration phase, which has no set date for release.

The teacher explains that some productions of the group have become books or extension courses, aiming to circulate the knowledge contained in the university. "The biggest repercussions of our work came from extension courses and books published at the invitation of publishers, four of them sold out and one of them still available (" from the Networks to the State - POLITICAL CAPITAL IN THE NEW CINEMA. "

The group also maintains partners in the exchange of ideas and holding events, such as the Latin American Institute of Advanced Studies (Ilea), which participates in extension course debates 'rediscovering cinema through its political institutions'.