O Estado Novo no controle da informação cotidiana: o caso da cidade de Natal (1941-1943) a partir do jornal “A República”

Abstract

Daily information disseminated for `informational subjects´ by the Brazilian State went through varied moments of control, repression and silencing. These subjects live, create meanings and memories in this realm. Thus, in the decade of 1940 the city of Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil has a great deal of presence Second World War conflicts. According to this, the problematic of this research is: Considering memorial evidence present in the Brazilian newspaper A República how was daily information produced and disseminated in the city of Natal from 1941 to 1943?. The research aims to analyze the types of daily information that circulated in that newspaper in Natal considering control apparatus of the “Estado Novo”. Specifically, it is aimed to characterize daily information process in the years of 19371943 under the structure of “Estado Novo”; Identify and categorize informational contents that circulated from 1941 to 1943 in the newspaper as well as to verify in the types of informational contents, the presence of meanings and intentionality, relating them to their producers. Theoretical foundation was based on quotidian of Lefebvre (1991); Heller (1992); Martins (2014), daily information with Xifras-Heras (1975); Gonçalves; Freire (2015) and Memory according to Le Goff (1990), Certeau (2013), Halbwachs (1990), Gondar (2016), Assman (2011) and Pollak (1989). The research is of descriptive nature with a qualitative approach and a hermeneutic-dialectical analysis according to (MYNAYO, 1996) considering also the varied information fonts and corpus delimitation according to the Artificial week (BAUER, 2002) and content analysis (BARDIN, 2009) and categorization technique. The research aims to contribute with studies regarding Natal´s involvement and information control in “Estado Novo” in the decade of 1940. Through this research the understanding of the informational culture is perceived broadening prior research on daily information in the field of Information Science, considered the essential contribution of memory. According to the analysis of A República the production, dissemination and use of daily information, underwent processes of change and were under the control of the Brazilian Department of Press and Propaganda as well as the State Department of Press and Propaganda. It was also seen that in all of its forms, information had collaboration of elite groups as well as local politics.