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A Fabricação do Presente: como o jornalismo reformulou a experiência do tempo nas sociedades ocidentais_Carlos Eduardo Franciscato

2005; Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Jornalismo; Volume: 1; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.25200/bjr.v1n2.2005.58

1981-9854

Tattiana Teixeira,

Urban Development and Societal Issues

Journalism is made, par excellence, in the present time.This maxim is proven in the undergraduate classrooms and in the editorial rooms day by day in a routine that is rarely questioned.In order to explain how journalistic temporality has been gathering strength down through the centuries and what are the implications of this practice, Carlos Eduardo Franciscato, professor of the Communication Course at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), Brazil, takes us on an interesting historical journey in the recently-launched A Fabricação do Presente -Como o jornalismo reformulou a experiência do tempo nas sociedades ocidentais (The Making of the Present -How journalism has reformulated the experience of time in Western societies).The book is an adaptation of his doctorate thesis presented in 2003 in the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.For the author, more than just a mere rule, the adoption of the present time by journalism contributes to the construction of the social experience of the present."Journalism does not create the present time, but it acts in an outstanding way as a reinforcement of a social temporality", he declares.In this work, Franciscato maintains that this research seeks to understand the concept of journalistic present, composed, according to the author, of fi ve interrelated categories: instantaneousness, simultaneousness, periodicity, novelty and public revelation.Divided into four parts, the book shows a careful bibliographic review of works related to the history of journalism -especially that of the United States and of Europe -up to the contemporary period and the changes produced by the most recent technological advances.Far from surrendering to the commonplace of explanations based on technicalities,