Lines of research

The research line articulates territorialities and vulnerabilities as communicational dimensions linked to political confrontations and dissensions; the dynamics of forming audiences and public opinion; political disputes in digital, institutional and corporative territories; to the strategic, ethical and affective flows that mark artistic experiences of exploring landscapes, passages and experiments that produce spatialities and temporalities of listening, dialogue, conflict and articulations. The scope of coverage of the themes that configure the main lines of action of the line involves the different ways of investigating territorialities and vulnerabilities based on affective, political, corporal, sound, artistic and institutional dynamics. It explores the way in which territories arise from communicational dynamics of negotiation, exposure of vulnerabilities, hostility, but also hospitality, which requires the joint construction of methodologies and attempts to produce interfaces between agencies, experiences and arrangements that they expand the thresholds at which politics, affections, corporealities, art and institutionalities approach.

It addresses creation procedures, expression modes and image fruition forms, considering the specificity of the devices, speeches, and performances they produce, as well as their hybridization. It calls upon a reflection on the imagistic production, prioritizing its documentary, fictional and plastic aspects. Taking into account the pragmatic dimension that is intrinsic and coextensive with the expressive dimension of images, we strive to understand the mediations by which they establish subjective, political and aesthetic experiences.

From the reflexivity perspective, it investigates communicative processes that shape social relations, particularly in cultural and political contexts. This perspective encourages the investigation of the socio-historical context of these practices, the constitution of sociabilities as well as the power dynamics. The projects within this research line are designed to analyze the interactive forms, the interlocutions, the actions of the subjects, the uses and appropriations of different media, and communication strategies, whether in daily or in public life.

The Line of Research Mediatic Textualities conducts studies on the interconnections between communication phenomena and their textualities, aiming to apprehend texts as temporal and spatially situated processes of mediation. The notions of device, experience and semiosis are references to seize the heterogeneous networks that intertwine the varied communication and media dynamics. The studies highlight the signic, discursive, narrative, material, informational and sociotechnical dimensions that historically permeate the investigated textualities in this line of research.