Sobre memes, jornalismo e podcast: as estratégias de humanização no podcast Além do Meme

Abstract

The following research exhibits a study about the relations between memes, journalism and podcast, having as research goal to discuss how the creator of the Além do Meme podcast, Chico Felitti, also a journalist, humanizes the characters in his narrative. To do so, this work is divided in five chapters, three dedicated to the theoretical reference, one for methodology and one for analysis. In the first chapter, we discuss the narrative as theoretical support to the comprehension of journalism and the characters’ role as story’s main subject. In the second chapter, the meme concept is explained and how journalism uses its entertainment as news value. Afterwards, we approached the concept of humanization, the purpose of this work. In the third chapter, that closes the theoretical reference, we recapture the history of radio, approaching the concept of podcast and the narrative genre, and its development until it became a big phenomenon nowadays. Entering methodology, this is distributed in three parts: the introduction of the object of research, the Além do Meme podcast, created by Chico Felitti in 2020, in which he performs an investigative work to understand the meme’s subtexts, how it was created, how it gained public expression and which consequences did it have in the lives of its characters. After that, in the corpus presentation, it is defined a classification propose of the podcast’s episodes, in order to demonstrate the process of (de)humanization of the characters, from the consequences of the meme in their lives (according to the podcast). As methodology, two movements of analysis were made: in the first, we did a hearing and transcription of the selected episodes, to identify the characters and its roles in the plot, and in the second, we identify the humanization strategies based in the work of Ijuim (2017). As a result and answer to the presented research goal, we consider that the work made by Chico Felitti in the Além do Meme podcast is humaniser for treating the characters shown as real people, with respect and sensibility in their expositions.