Audiovisual documentation in information science and communication sciences

Abstract

Introduction: The study proposes to identify Brazilian scientific productions on audiovisual documentation, viewed as a field that is little explored scientifically when compared to other fields and documentary approaches in Information Science and Communication Sciences. These present themselves as areas that dialogue about the audiovisual document. Thus, the research establishes a holistic view of the subject, in parallel in these two areas of knowledge, to identify the existing productions on the field of documentation. As for the basics objectives: a) to collect scientific production from annals article, journal article, dissertation, and thesis and b) to analyze the datafication and the area of concentration of the identified scientific studies. Methods: The methodological procedures are built from the quantitative-qualitative approach, using the exploratory-descriptive research strategy for the evaluation and deepening in the face of the available information. It had an attempt to explain the context of the phenomenon, with the analysis cut between 1984 to 2019. Results: The scientific production on audiovisual documentation in Brazil, within the scope of this research, points, initially, to shallow and incipient production, with few discussions and a deepening of the theoretical-pragmatic corpus in recent years. Conclusion: The research contributes to a visualization of the studies on audiovisual documentation, based on the quantitative and qualitative character. It shows the obstacles and advances in the field’s approaches in question in research in the area of information and communication. Also, it points out the need to build scientific spaces to expand the discussion and production of audiovisual documents.