Abstract

MENEZES, Lená Medeiros de  and  GONCALVES, Márcia de Almeida. From the Diario Official do Imperio do Brazil and Diário Oficial da União to the e-Diário Oficial: conjunctures and meanings (1862-2019). População e Sociedade [online]. 2019, n.32, pp.51-64.  Epub July 01, 2022. ISSN 0873-1861.

The creation of an «Official Gazette» in Brazil, dedicated to the dissemination and, therefore, the legitimation of governmental acts, dates from 1862, when a journal with these characteristics began to circulate uninterruptedly until the present time, currently in digital format. Prior to the appearance of this official vehicle, the publication of governmental acts was done through various newspapers, some of them with ties to the instituted powers, others of a totally private nature, considering, as its origin, the year 1808, when Brazil became the headquarters of the Portuguese monarchy and was created the official press, which led to the publication of the Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, following the Lisbon Gazette. This article aims to analyse this historical process, which went through different conjunctures, but with a strong dose of political, social and cultural permanencies. From this perspective, it seeks to relate conjunctures and meanings, analysing not only the issue of information, but also factors related to readability and to the transparency of the political-administrative process. An important historical source, the Diário da União (current name of the publication) is still a virgin ground for research and there is no doubt that its study, considering the said and the unsaid, will decisively contribute to the rewriting of the history of Brazil.

Keywords : Diario Official do Imperio do Brazil; Diario Oficial da República do Brasil; Diário da União; Information, intelligibility and transparency in the communicative act, Brazil.

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