THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FIELD: SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES UNDER ANALYSIS

Abstract

This work presents part of an analysis of the relations between the fields of media and politics, which has been built from an anthropological look at the discursive practices of agents who, as voters and consumers of the symbolic goods produced by the devices of the national media field, confer materiality to the relations between these fields. The central objective here is to establish a reflection on the possible agencies, which can be expressed by these discourses on politics, in a movement that aims to understand whether or not the political practices of profane voters, those who do not master the rules of operation of the national political field, would escape the political agendas presented by the devices of the media field. The present investigation is justified by the large number of studies that, when reflecting on the contemporary relations between media and politics, uniformly face the possible effects of media discourses on their consumers, thus failing to look at the point proposed here: the production of meaning expressed by the voter's political discourse. For now, we present the initial moment of this study that has been developed with the electorate of the municipality of Américo Brasiliense, a city located between three important economic and political centers in the interior of São Paulo: Araraquara, São Carlos and Ribeirão Preto.