Quando as minorias falam: os personagens da websérie Cartas Urbanas, do Coletivo Nigéria, e suas construções de sentido sobre a obra

Abstract

This research proposes a study about the meaning constructions that characters who participated on the web series Cartas Urbanas, from the audiovisual collective Nigéria, make towards this production. The analysis turns into six inhabitants from Fortaleza’s periphery, three of them from Grande Bom Jardim and the three others from the community Raízes da Praia, located at Praia do Futuro. Cartas Urbanas was released in 2016 and brings the discussion of the right to the city to Fortaleza’s reality. The production is divided in six episodes, each of them talking about problems faced by inhabitants of a different community in the city. The web series is one of the several productions made by Nigéria, collective raised in 2010 and composed by three young journalists from Fortaleza. The collective, which identifies itself with the practises of video activism, aim to present, by audiovisual productions, a counter-hegemonic communication. The group shows conflictual situations, always bringing as main characters the subaltern groups. This is a qualitative research, made by a reception study following the perspective of the Latin American Cultural Studies, through a multimethod strategy, which combines in-depth interviews and content analysis. We decided to work with life stories as a methodological procedure to comprehend the reality of the characters interviewed.