Entre-vista(s) na produção da informação nos programas de podcast “Flow Podcast” e “Mano a Mano”

Abstract

This monograph is dedicated to investigating how the production of journalistic information, specifically from interviews, has been carried out in audiocast and mesacast programs, conducted by celebrities and/or influencers, notably non-journalists, in contemporary times. To this end, the programs “Flow Podcast” and “Mano a Mano” were listed as materialities, moreover the episode number 545 [in the first ordinal count] — which featured the participation of Kim Kataguiri and Tabata Amaral, both state deputies for the State of São Paulo — and the 12th episode of the third season — which had Delegado da Cunha, also a federal deputy for the state of São Paulo — were, respectively, chosen as the research corpus. Using Content Analysis as a theoretical-methodological axis, we sought to answer the following research problem: how the production of journalistic information, specifically the interview, has been carried out in “Mano a Mano” and “Flow Podcast”, conducted by celebrities and/or influencers, notably non-journalists. For this purpose, the following categories were adopted as a methodological operator: social commitment; information checking; prior preparation and mediating conduct, in order to observe the empirical aspects selected in this study in a conceptual and comparative way. Based on the efforts made in this research, it was observed that the presence of a professional specialist in the area of communication, such as a journalist, is essential — even if the production is informal and focused on entertainment. However, there is an urgent need to (re)think communicative practices in current society, in order to fully contemplate the most diverse audiences consuming informative content. Furthermore, it was possible to understand that the attempt to exempt certain contemporary communication products from the inherent social and political responsibility implies the trivialization of the production process, as well as the journalists able and qualified to perform such a function. Vigilance towards such productions is also necessary, aiming at the quality of content, information, facts and subjects brought to and publicly transmitted in society.