The Culture Industry, Information and Capitalism

THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC SPHERE REVISITED: citizenship, media convergence and vigilance systems

“…The profound changes brought to the world of work by the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the productive sphere also reached, and consequently, the sphere of circulation and consumption of information, so far divided between electronic media and printed out (with the known hegemony of television in relation to radio, magazines, newspapers, etc. ), which mark the mass consumption of symbolic/ cultural goods, characteristic of the Industry Cultural agreement since the second post-war period (Bolaño, 2000(Bolaño, , 2015.…”

“…Retrieved on November 27, 2017, from http://www.grupoabril.com.br/pt/imprensa/releases/ placar-se-une-ao-portal-vejacom-e-lanca-pacote-de-produtosmultiplataforma/. Bolaño, C. R. S. (2015). Open field: for the critique of the epistemology of communication.…”

“…The convergence of the information, telecommunication, and audio-visual sectors is an important point in the discussion of the most general structural changes associated with global capitalism when considering both the development of productive forces and especially the social relations. It is related to the troublesome internal contradictions of information in the capitalist mode of production, and strongly affects the fundamental mediating structure that guarantees the conditions of hegemony construction in monopoly capitalism in the twentieth century: the Culture Industry (Bolaño, 2015).…”

“…In these cases, different cultural goods are articulated in a continuous and repetitive flow of programs that guarantees the fidelity of the audience. It means that part of the global audience can be attached to a radio or television chain, which can sell achieved audience ratings to buyers on the advertising market (Smythe, 1977;Bolaño, 2015).…”

“…It is a qualitative research that seeks to describe, but also to explain, the changes in the magazine in both contexts: the Abril Group crisis, and the contextual moment of competition with other medias. Based in this, the bibliographical research was applied as a form of data collection, this one in two parts, the first, among others, from Bolaño (2000Bolaño ( , 2015 and Figaro (2011) to deal with the restructuring of capitalism and the changes in the work of journalists and communicators in general; the second to deal with the history of Placar Magazine, cases of Unzelte (2015) and Rocco Júnior and Belmonte (2014).…”