A cultura da comunicação pela imagem no cotidiano de crianças da periferia de Cuiabá

Abstract

The present study aims to reflect, from the experience of children, on the image and power of affectation as a means of communication. Expressing the perception of the context in which one lives, what one feels and what one thinks, acting in the processes of interaction with people and the world around them, are part of the communicative process in its relational dimension and one of the ways of communicating is through images. Our proposal is based on the experience of drawings made by children to show the reality of their environment and daily life, a communicative strategy of the social project developed in the outskirts of Cuiaba by the Instituto Desportivo da Criança. With an appeal to images – drawings for the construction of an affective map of the “territory”, a geographic metaphor to account for the experience of places: neighborhood, school and home. The foundation of our study has Vera França's relational idea of communication as its theoretical axis. The operator concepts triggered for the research findings are framing with Erving Goffman and gesture with Vilém Flusser. As methodological procedures, we carried out a case study through a qualitative approach. The corpus of the research is shaped by the image, which reflects the children's point of view about the context of their daily lives, cultural situations, and as a genuinely contemporary communicational product.