Somos quem podemos ser - agonística e identidade do jornalista contemporâneo.

Abstract

Journalism as social productive activity is reached, in contemporaneity, by crises of meaning, in a scenario of conflicts and questions of professional identity. The thesis defended in this study is that professional identity consists journalist, at present, a agonal ethos, pressured by structural and conjunctural crises of deinstitutionalization and delegitimization. In connexion with the recent past essentialist affirmation and professionalism, the identity of the journalist is produced against external demands, the encounter with heteroidentity. Problematizes the relationship between the structural factor agonal identity of the journalist and processes of delegitimization and nonrecognition, wondering to what extent agonism holds open the profession. The approach is cartographic, studying the critical and (de)legitimizing vectors the operating in utterances about the identity of the journalist on data collected from João Pessoa (PB). For purposes of analysis, the empirical field was approached by professionals generations, taking as informants sources journalists that entered the profession in the last forty years, from the 1970s until 2012. Further the collaboration of professionals in selfadministered questionnaires, we collect data from the presidents of the Sindicato of dos Jornalistas Profissionais do Estado da Paraíba and Patronal Syndicate, per unstructured interviews. To reflect on the question posed in the research, are referenced thinkers that analyzed concepts of crisis and conflict, theories of identity and sociology of professions, aiming at a synthesis of profession’s agonisms, in order to locate structural and conjunctural orders of legitimation and delegitimation are referenced, values and relationships that constitute the professional identity of the journalist.