Abstract

PINHEIRO, Elton Bruno  and  FERREIRA MARTINS, Paloma. The Performance of Public Television in Streaming Platforms: A Cartography of TV Brasil and TV Cultura on YouTube. Vista [online]. 2023, n.11, e023008.  Epub July 30, 2023. ISSN 2184-1284.  https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4446.

This research provides an analytical reflection on the performance of Brazilian public television broadcasters in the socio-digital media environment of a streaming platform, namely YouTube, under the principles of public broadcasting advocated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Bucci et al., 2012; Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, 2001). As a methodological framework, the study also adopts cartographic approach applied to communication research (Kastrup, 2007; Rosário & Coca, 2018) and the perspective of a "multiple case study" (Yin, 1994/2015) in mapping two Brazilian public broadcasters, TV Brasil and TV Cultura, on the YouTube platform. Without disregarding the complex Brazilian political moment, which impacts the Public Broadcasting Service of the country, especially by causing the extinction of the Board of Trustees (an organ of consultative and deliberative nature) and, therefore, promote the exclusion of the participation of society in the management of the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, the analysis highlights a specific moment of the platformisation process (Poell et al., 2019) of public television in Brazil, where it is possible to: verify adaptations and inadequacies of the studied broadcasters to the digital platform environment, note how technological changes continue to impact television as a medium and language and underline some effects of communication through platforms in society.

Keywords : public television; platformisation; YouTube; TV Brasil; TV Cultura.

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