NARRATIVAS CONVERGENTES
Organizers: Almir Almas, Deisy Fernanda e Fernando Moura.
Book available at: Open Books Portal of the University of São Paulo https://www.livrosabertos.abcd.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/book/1356
Organized by researchers Almir Almas, Deisy Feitosa and Fernando Moura, this book is published in two languages, Portuguese and Spanish, without translation from one to the other. The proposal is precisely to enable a convergent reading, which follows the scope of the book, which is to talk about convergent narratives. The mix of languages ​​is justified, in particular, in view of the content itself and how the languages ​​of use and production are articulated in the reality of the audiovisual semiosphere today: connected, diverse and innovative.
With the objective of thinking about convergence within the scope of the similarities, differences and contradictions that it brings to audiovisual narratives in the area of ​​media and entertainment within the scope of these two universities, the book proposes to understand this Latin American region and the links of convergence existing between the different audiovisual productions in Portuguese and Spanish in recent years and how the transformations resulting from digital technology have generated synergies and connections between them. The possibility of increasingly faster, safer and more powerful connections, the dissemination and growth of the most diverse entertainment platforms, the development of artificial intelligence, all of this generates an impact on both business models and procedures for the creation, production, distribution and consumption of audiovisual content.
With the publication of this work, we propose the possibility of thinking about joint actions in the audiovisual distribution chain in the region, as well as the joint construction of a critical and theoretical reflection of our actions. This work is the result of a partnership between the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) and the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF, Argentina), with USP supporting the Brazilian Observatory of Digital Television and Technological Convergence (OBTED) and LabArteMídia, the Laboratory of Art, Media and Digital Technologies (LabArteMídia), under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Almir Almas and Prof. Dr. Deisy Fernanda Feitosa; and on the UNTREF side, the Programa de Investigación Aplicada en Narrativas Audiovisuales en Tiempos de Convergencia Digital y Cultural (PIANAC), from the Instituto de Investigaciones en Arte y Cultura Dr. Norberto Griffa, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Fernando Carlos Moura and Prof. Sergio F. Romero.

Almir Almas

Associate Professor and researcher at the Department of Cinema, Radio and Television and the Postgraduate Program in Audiovisual Media and Processes at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo. General Coordinator of the LabArteMídia Research Group – Laboratory of Art, Media and Digital Technologies; Co-founder and Co-Coordinator of the Obted Research Group – Brazilian Observatory of Digital Television and Technological Convergence, at the University of São Paulo. PhD and Master in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He was a Visiting Professor and Researcher with a FAPESP BPE Grant at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of English and Modern Languages, at Oxford Brookes University, between 2023/2024.
Filmmaker/VJ; Artist at the Cobaia Art Collective. Member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Society of Television Engineering (SET). Member of the Brazilian Digital Terrestrial TV System Forum (SBTVD Forum).

Author of Digital Terrestrial Television: Systems, Standards and Models; and author and organizer of Pandemídia – Viruses, Contaminations and Confinements; among other books, articles and publications. Producer and director of Corpo Cinesis, Corpo 4K, Videohaiku, Catábase pvcvt and Beco 360º, among other audiovisual works. He has participated in several national and international film, video and electronic art festivals.

Deisy Feitosa

Graduated in Communication Sciences – qualifications in Journalism and Radio and TV (UFPB), master in Digital Television (Unesp), PhD in Communication Sciences (ECA/USP), post-doctorate in Humanities, Rights and Other Legitimacies (FFLCH-USP) and post-doctorate in Audiovisual Media and Processes (CTR-ECA/USP). Coordinator and professor of the Journalism course at Faculdade Cásper Líbero and collaborating professor at the Department of Cinema, Radio and Television at ECA/USP – in the Higher Education Course in Audiovisual and in the postgraduate course in Audiovisual Media and Processes. She is a researcher at LabArteMídia and co-coordinator of the Brazilian Observatory of Digital Television and Technological Convergence (Obted), both linked to CTR-ECA/USP. She is a member of the SBTVD Forum (member of the Promotion Module) and a partner of the Television Engineering Society (SET), where she collaborates with the SET Magazine and the SETCast podcast.

Fernando Moura

Fernando Carlos Moura holds a PhD in Language and Communication Sciences with a specialization in Communication and Culture from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the SET Journal since 2013 and is a postdoctoral fellow in the PEP-UNTREF Postdoctoral Studies Program, director of the Applied Research Program Project on Audiovisual Narratives in Times of Digital and Cultural Convergence at UNTREF and professor of the Degree in Audiovisual Production at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a research associate at the Brazilian Observatory of Digital Television (Obted).