Identidades transitórias e televisão: uma análise sob o prisma dos Estudos Culturais

Abstract

This article discusses the influence of the media, especially television, as co-producer identity population. It is used a theoretical, cultural studies and collaboration of these for a new look at the culture and the construction of identities. It is here part of the design of identity as a process that builds over time through contact with one another. The methodology used in this work refers to the literature review by authors who theorize about the thematic analysis. We conclude that, in the contemporary era, the disintegration of the nation-state and loss of reference of the subjects, the television has an ambivalent role of identity construction. On the one hand, act as a source of legitimation of national identities, offering the public a place of representation and likeness. Another, trying to insert it in a global context, caused by the acceleration of the globalization process that produces increasingly realities hybrid identity.