An overview about cartography in Brazil: a research based on master theses and doctoral dissertations of the Communication between 2010 and 2017

Abstract

This article is aimed to clarify fundamental aspects and present the results of a research that objectives to investigate the procedures for using Cartography as a methodological approach for the field study of Communication in Brazil. Therefore, we initially present a map of the method and examine the state of the art from the theses and dissertations defended between 2010 and 2017 is examined. It is possible to observe the adoption of the term as a synonym for other methodological procedures, along with the superficial use of the available epistemic-methodological framework. It was possible to identify five cartographic perspectives gaining prominence due the epistemological foundation employed, as it follows: Deleuze and Guattari, Walter Benjamin, Cartography of Controversies (based on Actor-Network Theory), Martín-Barbero and Lucia Leãos’s poetics cartography.

Keywords
Research Methodology; Cartography; State of Art