https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/4216 2026-05-09T00:07:01Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46799 Título: Comunicação Percussiva: perspectivas ludológicas da construção de valores e significados na percussão de mão Abstract: This study investigates how communicational values and meanings are constructed within the musical–instrumental processes of hand percussion, treating hand percussion as an ecology (instruments, techniques, bodies, and mediations) and using the logic of play as its primary interpretive key. The research is theoretical-analytical, combining ludological rhetorics, technical-historical examples, and applied inflections developed through a practical laboratory. It mobilizes rhetorics formulated by authors associated with Game Studies, articulating them with percussive musical activity. Accordingly, it examines the paradox between creative freedom in percussion and technical–instrumental rigidity, drawing on Hans Georg Gadamer; the play of writing implicated in musical notation, based on Jacques Derrida; the limits and ambiguities of definitions and taxonomies of play in Johan Huizinga and Roger Caillois, revisited from a contemporary perspective and applied to the stylistics of percussion; the parallels between collective percussive practices and anti-structure within Victor Turner’s liminoid register; the modes of adherence, consent, and modification of the metacommunicational frame in Gregory Bateson, instituted through the voluntary acceptance of the musical instrument, technique, and composition; the ecstatic experience of percussive play and play as emotional survival in Brian Sutton-Smith; procedural rhetoric, programming, and their relations to artificial intelligence and electronic percussion, in light of Ian Bogost; and the modification of the instrumental state, understood as play and production, in the terms proposed by James Hans. These rhetorics are related to communicational patterns and to rhythmic–musical forms in hand percussion and its instruments, constantly subject to modification and adaptation, converging on the thesis that values and meanings emerge primarily from the modification of communicational frames. Through demonstrations and comparative analyses of instruments, techniques, and modes of creation, juxtaposed with interviews with internationally recognized practitioners of percussive musical performance in Brazil and abroad, as well as the design of a practical laboratory, the study operationalizes the proposed rhetorics and explores the intersections among play, music, and communication Tipo: Tese 2026-03-06T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46773 Título: Estratégias discursivas para figurativizar a história no cinema de Patricio Guzmán: memória, metáforas visuais e efeitos de sentido Abstract: This research aims to identify and understand the discursive strategies used by the Chilean documentarian and filmmaker Patricio Guzmán to represent the history he commemorates in his films. This requires understanding the effects of meaning produced by the visual metaphors he creates and their effectiveness in producing collective memory through documentary techniques to "film what is not seen." The theoretical foundation is discursive semiotics, and in particular, the contributions of semioticians such as Greimas, Landowski, Floch, Fiorin, and Oliveira to the understanding of syncretic texts such as audiovisual media. The theoretical framework for the relationship between documentary and memory comes from authors such as Nichols, Hirsch, and Rigney. Among the hypotheses raised is the confirmation of the relevance of the poetic approach to facts to broaden and resize the scope of the presented narrative and the consolidation of traumatic memory in subsequent generations, thus contributing to the consolidation of a people's identity and the strategies for building a future that fulfills the hopes interrupted by the historical events that the filmmaker evokes. To understand the work of Patricio Guzmán, with more than twenty medium-length and feature-length films produced over half a century of cinema, three trilogies are taken as a reference: the three films that make up *The Battle of Chile*; the following three, *Chile, the Obstinate Memory*, *The Pinochet Case*, and *Salvador Allende*; and the most recent, formed by the films *Nostalgia for the Light*, *The Pearl Button*, and *The Cordillera of Dreams*. The corpus is formed by a set of semiotized sequences that account for the particularities of Patricio Guzmán's way of documenting. As a result, the thesis confirms the filmmaker's potential to form Prosthetic Memory and Post-Memory to make the past present and, thus, guide the future. Tipo: Tese 2026-03-06T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46748 Título: Comunicação digital, videogame e relações de gênero: uma pesquisa sobre a violência simbólica em comunidades brasileiras de jogos digitais Abstract: This Dissertation explores how symbolic violence emerges within Brazilian League of Legends communities, examining the intersections between digital communication, video games, and gender relations in the construction of spaces that appear inclusive yet operate through subtle mechanisms of exclusion. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, Norval Baitello Jr., Eugênio Trivinho, Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, and Achille Mbembe, the study connects notions of media visibility, representation, dromoaptitude, and gender performativity. The analysis reveals that gamer culture - driven by speed, visibility, and performance - reproduces symbolic hierarchies that mirror broader social inequalities. However, it also highlights emerging forms of resistance and counter-discourse within these same spaces, suggesting that digital communities can serve as laboratories for re-signification and social critique. Guided by the paradigm of complex thought, this research embraces a non-linear understanding of communication phenomena, recognizing that inclusion and exclusion, visibility and silence, coexist in permanent dialogue. Ultimately, to understand symbolic violence in digital games is to understand how contemporary subjects negotiate identity, communication, and belonging in a networked world Tipo: Dissertação 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46572 Título: Se essa rua fosse minha: a Rua Maria José vista pela ecologia da comunicação Abstract: This dissertation aims to understand how the dynamics of Rua Maria José, located in the Bexiga neighbourhood in the central area of São Paulo, have developed and adapted amid advances in the real estate sector and technology, contributing to the preservation of its local identity. These dynamics, which include samba circles, children’s games, and other activities that promote the occupation of public space, as well as their various forms of mediation — gained strength especially from 2019 onwards, when the street became part of the municipal Ruas de Lazer (leisure street) programme. With this initiative, the use of the street expanded and began to occur more frequently, driven by the strategic use of media by the neighbourhood’s residents themselves, particularly those who grew up on Maria José and were responsible for bringing the programme to the street. The methods employed in this research were participant observation and digital ethnography, used to analyse digital materials that portray the street. For the discussion presented and the interpretation of the materials collected, this study draws on authors who contribute to the notion of an ecology of communication, as proposed by Vicente Romano (2004), including Harry Pross, Norval Baitello Jr., James Hillman, and Dietmar Kamper, as well as urban scholars Jane Jacobs and Raquel Rolnik, whose reflections on the city and leisure have broadened debates about the contemporary challenges faced by urban environments. The findings suggest that Rua Maria José’s capacity to resist urban transformations is rooted in the ongoing occupation of its public spaces and in the complementary use of media that, rather than replacing the body, act as its extension. In doing so, these practices sustain forms of communication oriented toward encounter and collective presence, processes that, in turn, nurture the street’s resilience Tipo: Dissertação 2025-12-08T00:00:00Z