Estratégias comunicacionais e práticas de WebRP: o processo de legitimação na sociedade midiatizada

Abstract

This study aims to classify the different phases of practices of Public Relations in web (WebRP) throughout last fourteen years (1995-2009) that characterize the advent of the commercial Internet in Brazil. Here the legitimation notion proposal for Berger and Luckmann (1985) is related to the context of the midiatic communication, Rodrigues (1990), Barichello (2001, 2005). However, the mediatisation of the society, happened with the development of technologies of information causes the displacement in the institutional legitimacy process and brings new possibilities of interaction with the publics. The study deals to answer the following problematic: How the scene of the mediatisation affected the practices of Public Relations in web since the advent of the commercial Internet in Brazil? The methodology uses the study of multiple cases, Yin (2005). The study corpus was formed by twelve (12) sites analyzed at three moments: 90 s, 00 s and current years. The old sites had been accessed through Internet Archive Wayback Machine (IAWM). The text is divided in four chapters: the first one reflect on the process of legitimacy in the context of mediatisation of the society; the second aims to understand the displacement of the understanding of the medias as mediation canals between the sender and the receiver (E-M-R) for an agreement of mass media as a ambience in which these functions are mixed within E-M-R; third it reflects on the changes happened in Public Relations practices in the internet ambience. The last chapter presents the analysis of the studied strategies of communication, list and exemplifies the most pertinent characteristics of each period, which makes possible the classification of the three phases of the WebRP. The first one, more informative, is characterized for the transposition of points of visual identity, historical data and some notice. Second one characterizes for the increasing of the information and virtual services, forms of contact with the publics. Third has as traces the predominance of information directed to each public, the presence of institutional projects and the use of resources in multimedia. The final considerations point with respect to the visibility as the main factor that guides the practical ones of public relations in the Internet, a result that not agree with the interactive possibilities of this contemporary midiatic ambience.