Journalistic genres of the tablet: nothing original in the originals reveals the strength of the device's cultural habit

Abstracts

In this article, we focus on the primary aim of the research on mobile journalistic genres: to understand whether and how the digital medium (DEBRAY, 1993) influences the discursive constitution of journalistic genres. 187 discursive compositions from O Globo and Estadão Noite (more recently called Estadão Light ) were analyzed. More specifically, we analyzed, qualitatively and quantitatively, the results of: format, sequences (ADAM, 2006), inverted pyramid, and tumbled pyramid (CANAVILHAS, 2006), schedulable, legitimate and legitimized event (VAZ; FRANÇA, 2011), immediacy and periodicity (GROTH, 2011), as well as newsworthiness (WOLF, 2001). After performing this comparative analysis, we investigated the tablet under the perspective of mediology (MCLUHAN, 2001; DEBRAY, 1993). Our thesis: one of the major lines of force of the media is the cultural habit that adheres to the tablet device, with the strengthening of two original genres of printed, namely, the story and the column.

Journalism; Journalistic genres; Medium; Mobile devices