O podcast como voz da diversidade: uma análise da produção LGBTQIA+ na podosfera a partir do programa “poc de Cultura”

Abstract

In order to understand the social role of the podcast as a media that enhances voices and experiences LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual / “transvestite”, queer, intersex, asexual and other sexualities and identities), , this work was carried out using bibliographic research and content analysis as methodology (Bardin, 1977), with the episodes of the podcast “Poc de Cultura”, produced by four gay men, Caco Baptista, Filipe Bortolotto, José Melo and Hilário Júnior. In the first chapter, we conceptualized cyberspace and its possibilities (Lévy, 1999); the emergence and conceptualization of the podcast; and finally, we highlight the podcast as a micromedia with characteristics of simplified production, not centralized, distribution, availability and access differentiated from broadcasting, interaction with the audience, and a medium of mutual collaboration between its producers. In the second chapter we conceptualize the acronym LGBTQIA+ and the history of the movement in Brazil, putting into question considerations about the search for visibility and representations of the LGBTQIA+ community over the years. The third chapter sought to present the streaming platform Spotify and the podcast analyzed. The analysis made it possible for us to fly over the episodes launched between September 2018 and December 2020, making a cut of the episodes that deal directly with the issues of the LGBTQIA+ community and later we chose one of these for a more in-depth analysis. The analysis showed that the specific episode contributes to an exchange between the different identities that make up the LGBTQIA+ community, as a space for discussion between members of the community itself. As a result of this research we have that the podcast can be used by different profiles of people to portray issues of their experiences, because it is a media with production characteristics facilitated in comparison to other media, contributing to the production of totally different optical stories, to what we are used to seeing, helping to shape a world open to differences.