Webséries: audiovisuais ficcionais seriados na web

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the sociocultural environment of the webseries, fictional serial audiovisuals produced specifically for the web, in the cybercultural context. The platform Youtube and the audiovisual content of the channels Porta dos Fundos and canal8KA compose the corpus of this research and are among the proposition released from the second decade of the XXI century to build a viewing habit of fictional audiovisual products on the web through serialily. The consumption and production of videos and series on the web provides specific characteristics of this environment, such as the rivalry with other attention catalyzers fighting for space on the same window, the use of interactive tools, and the facilitation in the criation and circulation of audiovisuals. The goal is to identify the sociocultural reverberations that have emerged in this environment: how the interactors behave regarding webseries and vice versa, once that in an environmental thinking the social movements impact the products and so does the opposite. The hypothesis is that the webseries environment, through the strategies of acceleration, interaction and ritualisation by repetition brings the interactor user, simultaneously receiver and viewer to a time and space suspension with the temporal acceleration and the obliteration of the world by excessive images, interactive or not. Methodologically, we will analyse the corpus, investigating the available tools and used languages that potentially impact the sociocultural relations in this environment. The theoricalmethodological funtamental basis of this research consists in the works of Norval Baitello and Villém Flusser about image and cultural environments, Umberto Eco about seriality and narrative, Arlindo Machado about audiovisual history and its consumption and Eugênio Trivinho about cyberculture