O metajornalismo como estratégia imersiva no podcast A Mulher da Casa Abandonada

Abstract

Based on the essentially sensorial potential of audio, podcasts have explored immersive narrative strategies to capture the listener's attention. In the field of narrative journalism, both the journalistic practice and the journalist become characters present in the plot, highlighting the behind-the-scenes of the report and involving the viewer with a more in-depth perspective regarding the investigation of the reported information, an approach recognized in the field of metajournalism (Oliveira, 2010). From this perspective, this research aims to understand which expressive marks of metajournalistic practice as an immersive strategy are present in the podcast “A mulher da casa abandonada” (The woman in the abandoned house), produced by journalist Chico Felitti, linked to the Folha de S. Paulo conglomerate. First, podcasting as a language (Kischinhevsky, 2012; Luiz, 2014; Lopez, 2011) will be presented, as well as its proposed models (Bontempo, 2020; Bufarah, 2021; Viana and Chagas, 2021) and its presence in the true crime genre (Punnett, 2018; Yardley; Kelly; Robinson-Edwards, 2019; Jáuregui; Viana, 2022). Subsequently, an overview of narrative radio journalism will be provided, and then we will discuss immersive strategies and metajournalism in podcasting (Oliveira, 2010; Carlson, 2016; Kischinhevsky, 2017; Viana, 2022). For analysis, considering the sound nature of our object, a hybrid methodological approach is taken by combining the concept of listening point presented by Chion (2011) incorporated in the Analysis of Immersive Potential by Santos, P. (2022) with the Critical Analysis of Narrative Journalism in Podcast developed by Viana (2023) where we will focus on the metajournalism present in the metanarrative plan. We systematized the corpus of this research by going through the seven episodes of the series, observing representations of memory, behind the scenes and journalistic repercussion evidenced by the journalist's first-person discourse. As a result, we identified how the listener can have their immersion experience in the podcast guided by obtaining details of the investigation crossed by subjectivity, self-referentiality and journalistic transparency.