Linguagem, conhecimento e jornalismo sistêmico orientado para a emancipação humana

Abstract

This work aims to understand the social function of news journalism, its limits and possibilities in terms of guidance for human emancipation. For this, we argue that it is necessary to resume Gyorgy Lukács' understanding of the language complex and its articulation with other social complexes, especially the work carried out by the author of For an ontology of the social being as the one that founds the social being. Only after correctly understanding this complex articulation is it possible to enter the questions about knowledge in general and news knowledge. We will rely especially on the work of Ivo Tonet on the method to draw an important division in studies on knowledge, namely, the ontological understanding (which has its centrality in the world itself) and the gnosiological one (which puts such centrality in the subject). Without this double understanding (articulation between work, language and 'purely social' complexes together with the centrality of the object in front of the subject) any attempt to assess the role of the news journalist will always be wrong. In a last moment, having as main references the studies of Adelmo Genro Filho on journalism and Marxism and Ivo Tonet on emancipatory educational activities, we will defend the thesis of the possibility of a systemic journalism oriented to human emancipation.