Informational practices in Portal Geledés

stories and representations about black women

Abstract

It analyzes the content produced and shared in the posts about black women on the digital platform Geledés – Instituto da Mulher Negra. It describes the importance of discussing how women are represented on that portal and intends to highlight the social role of information, in order to provide opportunities for discussions to transform the conditions in which the subjects live. Discusses the presence of racial and gender themes in the scope of Information Science (CI) when dealing with informational practices, in their imbrication between information and the subjects who produce and disseminate it, as well as the power relations that are revealed from of erasures and silencing of social group identities. This is a basic, exploratory-descriptive research with a qualitative approach that seeks to contribute to reflection in the social sphere and promote discussions on the representation of black women in the posts published on the portal. It uses the methodology of Bardin's Content Analysis for posts that deal with themes related to race and gender issues, their intersections and, as evidenced in this portal. It aims to understand how social representations about black women are constituted from posts shared on the Geledés portal.The content analysis was carried out from the stages of reading, understanding, grouping and coding of the contents produced according to the categories of analysis emerged from the research corpus that evidenced the informational practices on the web in the form of interaction of these subjects in space, with the use of different hypermedia as a possibility to expand and validate their discourses on black women who drew on experiences and different reports, whether testimonials, news, interviews. It uses other communicational languages as an alternative to expand knowledge and ratify its statements about the representation of black women. The exploratory study on the web showed the manifestation of these women in a space not only of sharing, but of proposing new discourses in which women's voices are allowed to be made visible, when narrating the experiences of an instituted social representation that historically and daily naturalizes a place. black and feminine of subjugation to oppose this representation to a new one, structured in a collective thought from reports that establish in this collective and transversal space a collective and solidary identity, to reveal and build foundations for their subjectivities and equality of rights.