Notes on the mediatized narrator

Abstract

The article updates reflections around the concept of mediatized narrator. The central hypothesis is that the processuality of mediatization, by affecting narratives, also ends up interfering in their discursive structure. It thus causes the emergence of what we call the mediatized narrator, which succeeds, in evolutionary terms, the modern narrator, by Benjamin (2012), and the post-modern narrator, by Santiago (2002). The approach is typological, linked to the essential nature of the narrative extract, and topological, related to the situational place in which the mediatized narrator is found. Methodologically, with Ferreira (2013), we propose to overcome the epistemology of “separate objects” and seek deeper layers of meaning. The reflection will be illustrated with an analysis of the YouTube programs “Buenas Ideales” and “Porta dos Fundos”.