The obsolet present: memory, history, rememberance, reminder and oblivion in the media. Incommunication and impermanence

• Grant number: 11/20330-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: January 04, 2012
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications
• Principal Investigator: Milton Pelegrini
• Grantee: Milton Pelegrini
• Host Investigator: Moises de Lemos Martins
• Host Institution: Vice-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação. Universidade Paulista (UNIP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade do Minho (UMinho), Portugal

Abstract

This research project aims to investigate the communicative processes in "Secondary" and "Tertiary" mediations system, under the thesis of "oblivion" to form "memories" as theoretical basis of reference for reflections on "Media" as the conceptually built by Harry Pross and Vilém Flusser. Impermanence is a unique phenomenon against which, by the effort to preserve the memory, but made all communication processes and means, in this work, a premise. Therefore, it is proposed to study it in its mediatic manifestations, especially with regard to the conservation effort in time and space communication, both in print and in digital environments. This research is based on secondary media, reflections taken from the first Brazilian newspaper "O Correio Braziliense" printed in London in 1808, designed as a "Literary Warehouse" in the mold of the Enlightenment, which was to become the most effective advocate of Brazilian independence, and the newspaper "O leal portuguez: com authoridade do Governo em nome do príncipe regente nosso senhor", also created in 1808 by the Portuguese crown to act as a counterpoint, as the official journal of the empire. Both served as environments constitutor of stories and memories that contextualizing European and Brazilian societies. Then with the advent of electrification in communications, the elimination of space and time in the Tertiary Media (concept of Harry Pross), as well as the escalation of abstraction (concept of Flusser), ratified the progressive emptying of meaning when you want to save memory in electronic communication vehicles. The broadening of the volume and speed of information transmitted appears to correspond to a gradual loss of meaning in memory generating a kind of "collective dememorization," an increasing degree of lack of communication on networked systems. (AU)