Informação e acessibilidade: um estudo sobre o webtelejornalismo produzido para surdos na América Latina

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the production of webtelejournalism produced in Latin American countries, as communication channels that promote accessibility for deaf people, in order to understand how this type of initiative occurs and to point out directions for it to be increasingly common and effective. It appears as an effort by the Research Group on Journalism, Media, Accessibility and Citizenship (GJAC) to expand discussions on the topic. Therefore, the study deepens the investigations based on evaluation categories related to the audiences the content is aimed at, the themes they address, the different types of news formats they use and the accessible and inclusive devices appropriated by Jornal Primeira Hand, in February 2021; Tenga en Cuenta, between March and April 2021; and LSM TV, also in April 2021; aired in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, respectively. The research is supported by the bibliographic review, the content analysis and the semi-open interview for the development of the methodological paths. The theoretical basis of this study uses works on webtelejournalism, television journalism and media convergence by Alfredo Vizeu, Laerte Cerqueira, Letícia Renault, Lívia Cirne, Letícia Capanema and Lucia Santaella. The work problematizes the right of deaf people to accessible communication through Brazilian legislation and relates this topic to the notes of Manuel Castells, André Lemos, Pierre Lévy and Marcos Palacios, on how the internet is established as a suitable environment for creation of accessible materials aimed at people with disabilities. It also deals with the concepts of accessibility and deaf culture based on publications by Karin Strobel, Audrei Gesser, Jonara Medeiros Siqueira - as a member of the Research Group on Journalism, Media, Accessibility and Citizenship (GJAC) - and on the course's teaching material Degree in Letters/Libras, both from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). In short, it is possible to conclude that the evaluated programs work as tools that promote accessible content that enable the recognition of deaf identity, when it is verified that they appropriate the available devices to provide accessibility, while fulfilling the social role of journalism, of inform society. However, there is an alert to the small offer of similar projects that, by right, should be commonplace and constant.