O Som da Noite: identidade visual e projeto de uma ferramenta on-line para auxiliar criação, personalização e administração de webrádios

Abstract

Brazil has internet access in more than 90% of its households. It is a means of communication that promotes a paradigm shift in interpersonal relationships, service provision, and even traditional media. It is also a country with very high audio consumption, with about 79% of the population listening to the radio daily and 38% of that segment of the population admitting that the possibility of following this means of communication via the internet has transformed their habits. The objective of this work is to make publicly available a system called “O Som da Noite” (The Sound of the Night), which will act in these opportunities by allowing any internet user to exercise their freedom of the press by creating, customizing, and managing their own web radio through an administrative panel. This web radio will broadcast audio files or the voice of its administrator(s) to the audience whenever they wish. Because web radios created with the system are unlikely to scale to a considerable level and their data is highly standardized, the chosen database paradigm was relational, provided by the PostgreSQL DBMS. The tool chosen for interface development was the React library, due to its ease of development, numerous possibilities, and easy maintenance. The aesthetics of the application's administrative panel will consist of a tribute to retrofuturism, with special inspiration from the 1980s synthwave aesthetic. Data collection to support the system requirements was carried out in a wide range of virtual subcultures, but mainly among students from various courses and semesters at the Federal University of Ceará in Quixadá. The administrative panel and radio interface were validated through an usability test with potential users. User interface prototypes and usage diagrams were developed to illustrate the functionality. As a result, the user-created web radio interface was implemented in a Minimum Viable Product, and the implementation of the logic layer began, with its implementation still in its early stages. It is hoped that over time this work will achieve greater success and that the resulting system can be used by entrepreneurs to strengthen their brand, influencers or independent artists, and even institutions to continuously broadcast the audio content they create.