Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación

Os Estudos da edição em diálogo com o campo ibero-americano da comunicação

2025-02-13T23:14:02-03:00

Kinetic typography

2024-10-24T22:29:11-03:00

This essay aims to discuss the tendency towards hybridity and the interface between image, writing, orality and movement. This is a scenario of multimedia productions that value the dilution of boundaries between languages. Writing, today, even more present in our daily lives through digital means of communication, finds itself intertwined with the characteristics of orality (the phatic function, the gestural character through pictorial and/or figurative resources) and image (the open semantics, drawings and typographic forms, writing as an image). Finally, we consider how lyric videos and kinetic typography use linguistic multimodalities as semantic creativity.

Amphibious and ambiguous

2025-01-20T17:02:20-03:00

In this paper, a critical overview of the training of publishing and editing professionals in Brazil at undergraduate level is outlined. In the first part, we focus on the dual nature of its disciplinary and institutional links (Communication and Literature/Linguistics). In the second part, the terminological uncertainty is explored, which, to a large extent, refracts the epistemological dilemmas of the area and the challenges posed by recent technological changes.

Publishing “the ideal of beauty and character” in Portugal

2024-09-12T14:11:51-03:00

In the 1930s, the Portuguese publishing house Romano Torres, by the hand of its most important publisher, Carlos Bregante Torres, began publishing the Colecção Azul [Blue Collection], of literature categorized as romantic, aimed above all at a female audience. The books were mostly of French origin, with two authors as the main figures: Max du Veuzit and Magali. As the most successful book series in the Romano Torres’ history, the Colecção Azul was one of the most important in the publisher’s catalog and was certainly the one that most influenced its financial health.

García Canclini as a strange editor

2024-09-13T19:18:56-03:00

Known worldwide for his re-elaboration of the concept of hybridity for the study of Latin American cultural productions, the work of the Argentine anthropologist Néstor García Canclini, exiled in Mexico due to the last military dictatorship, would not be complete if we forgot to consider the work that he carried out, designing strategies, recovering texts and bringing together authors in notebooks and series—the most important being Gedisa’s Serie Culturas—in his role as editor. This work could have well gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that, at the beginning of the 21st century, García Canclini would take a turn in his writing, recovering an autofictional style to which he was very close in his formative years in Paris-X, where Paul Ricœur directed his doctoral thesis. Based on two key texts to understand the way in which García Canclini represents himself—“Desencuentros entre un antropólogo latinoamericano, un sociólogo europeo y una especialista en estudios culturales estadounidense” (1999) and “Lectores póstumos” (2018)—this article studies the text “Por qué existe literatura y no más bien nada” (2014) as a manifesto of the poetics of Canclini's editor.

The Commercialization of printed matter in the graphic-independent microcosm

2024-10-01T14:58:55-03:00

In this article, we will discuss how independent publishers market their printed productions. At first, we called the group of 197 publishers who sold at Banca Tatuí a graphic-independent microcosm. This is a physical and digital bookshop in São Paulo, run by João Varella and Cecília Arbolave, which brings together many independent publishers, initially more linked to the graphic arts. We selected three of the affiliated publishing houses in order to investigate in more depth how they mobilize the sale of their copies: Polvilho Edições, Editora Barbante and negalilu. In order to understand the dynamics of this market, we interviewed the owners of the publishing houses mentioned above. To support our analysis, we used the theories of Pierre Bourdieu (2005) and the work of Muniz Jr. (2016). In this discussion, we looked at the four ways in which we believe the marketing of independent books is concentrated: publishing fairs, fixed points of sale, online stores and “direct” sales.

Editores “malabaristas” ou editores profissionais?

2024-09-26T10:27:28-03:00

La investigación tiene como objetivo comprender e interpretar las modalidades asociativas de distribución y comercialización desarrolladas por grupos de editores, y cómo son parte de las transformaciones más recientes en la circulación del libro. Examinamos las tareas que procesan un colectivo, una cooperativa de trabajo y una sociedad comercial para resolver un procedimiento crítico de la cadena de valor del libro, como es la distribución de ejemplares físicos en las librerías.

La pregunta abierta es: ¿cómo surgen la figura del editor “malabarista”, con múltiples tareas y vidas, y la figura del editor “profesional”, que emana del escenario actual de consolidación de los proyectos independientes surgidos en la primera década del siglo, ¿conviven?

Labor synergies between the publishing industry and the audiovisual industries

2024-09-16T18:08:13-03:00

This article analyzes the issue of literary adaptations made in Cinema, Television and, above all, streaming Video on Demand (VOD) platforms. This approach does not propose a formal analysis of audiovisual products, but rather an historical and contextual one that investigates the social and economic structures on which the audiovisual industries and the publishing industry are built. The text also uses the concept of concentration to make a reading of how, in recent times, there is an attempt to form large media groups with interests in different areas of culture.

Play and listen to the book

2024-12-18T01:16:08-03:00

Digitization in the publishing world has caused transformations in the practices of creation, production, circulation and consumption of printed works. In this article, we turn our focus to a format that has been changing the way readers consume these works: the audiobook. The focus is on commercial publishers that publish audiobooks as narrations of printed books. In this scenario, what is the role of audiobooks in the digital evolution of the Brazilian publishing market? The methodology included bibliographic research and quantitative references. The result points to the expansion of the narrated content market; however, this is not yet consolidated in the country.

Reading and editorial capitals

2024-08-08T16:46:44-03:00

The case study addresses the comic book (HQ) Arlindo, originally published on Twitter (now X) and released in print version by Editora Seguinte through crowdfunding. Based on John B. Thompson (2013, 2021), we highlight the changes that the digital revolution has brought to the publishing field, with an emphasis on publishing and reading formats, and reflect on the editorial capitals inherent to the case. As results, we point out that the informational capital of the reader base contributed to the success of the crowdfunding campaign, demonstrating the links between symbolic and economic capitals.

The Circulation of books and the training of readers in Argentina

2024-11-08T16:26:29-03:00

The book reconstructs the process of consolidation of the Argentine publishing industry and the formation of readers during the central decades of the 20th century. Through the identification of spaces, discourses and interventions of intellectuals, the author analyzes the modes of circulation of printed matter and the changes in the representations of books and reading that characterized the cultural history of the period.

20 anos da Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación

2025-02-13T21:44:40-03:00

John B. Thompson: We need to integrate technological change into the theory of fields

2024-11-08T16:40:37-03:00

En esta entrevista, el investigador británico defiende la vigencia de la teoría bourdiana para pensar un sector que atravesó profundas transformaciones en las últimas décadas, repasa las herramientas metodológicas de los estudios de la edición y asegura que no se puede comprender a esta industria sólo con datos cuantitativos. Además, actualiza el debate sobre la concentración con el caso de Amazon, aborda problemáticas actuales de la edición académica y reflexiona sobre los desafíos planteados por la Inteligencia Artificial y los grandes modelos de lenguaje.