Digital Encyclopedia of Latin American Communicational Thought (PCLA) section: women in communication

• Grant number: 22/08397-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: February 01, 2023 - January 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Theory of Communication
• Principal Investigator: Maria Cristina Gobbi
• Grantee: Maria Cristina Gobbi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes, Comunicação e Design (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Dealing with the communication landscape in the region through the production of women is the rediscovery of complex controversies, diverse problems that have been postponed and genealogies and affections that interconnect fields and lines of thought. Often antagonistic, but based on diverse cultural traditions and based on communicative practices and individual experiences of those who produce and consume communication. "From silencing to the word: the presence of women in communication studies in Latin America and the 2030 Agenda", a previous stage, contemplated by the Fapesp Process: 2019/26715-2, showed that in the specific scope of information and communication, in the period from 1959 to 1999, with the support of the Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (Ciespal), there are several studies of women dealing with Latin American Communicational Thought (PCLA). Developed in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, such contributions, largely still invisible, are focused between the 1960s and 1970s, but they are few (re) known and referenced in the area. The arrival of Ciespal in the city of Quito, Ecuador, in 1959, marked an important cycle of changes in communication studies and production, such as the proposition of new university programs for the training of communicators, becoming a key point of communicational research. criticism, still inspired by the Dependency Theory (TORRICO, Erick 2015). In the same way, there was a stimulus to interdisciplinarity and the use of quati-qualitative methods of investigation, aiming at the elaboration of a conceptual framework with characteristics that would meet the demands of the region (CIESPAL, 1973). All this dense communicative scenario and the invisibility of women's production in the region stimulated the proposition of a continuity project. With the title Digital Encyclopedia of Latin American Communicational Thought (PCLA) - Section: WOMEN in Communication, its main objective is to make visible the results of the project that is being closed, streamlining the processes of retrieval and dissemination of information. The proposal is to create a digital space (web) so that researchers, teachers, undergraduate and graduate students and others interested in the area can have knowledge of the works (books, texts, interviews, websites, blogs) , images, audios, etc.) produced by the researchers, forming a large database, freely accessible to the public. Such contribution, developed through communicational entries, will enable a more agile interaction with the bibliography (facilitating, mainly, academic research). It is possible to affirm that the communicational theories in Latin America presented themselves as a set of knowledge still in the process of studies and legitimation on the theoretical and methodological problems of communication. However, it still did not have enough strength to build new models engaged with Latin American needs. Thus, it is in this "real" utopia that this research is inserted, which seeks, in the contributions of women, to (re)design the cognitive map of Latin American communicative pioneering. (AU)