A camiseta e a rua: processos internacionais entre sujeitos pelo vestir

Abstract

The printed t-shirt expresses and represents the great cultural diversity found on the streets, dressing individuals that walk around in the alive and dynamic scene of the cities, producing different meanings and interactions. In this research, the emphasis is not just on the definition of this medium, but also on its communicative process, considering that it can be perceived and identified at the Urban Visual Communication. Having a small part in the scope of many objects of study in the Area of Communication, the printed t-shirt is marked by an Advertising perspective, related to its use or approach, and also crossed mainly by logical communication. Therefore, this discussion is based on the perspective that involves the social interaction as its main angle, and the empirical object – the printed t-shirt – as the phenomenon investigated. Its observation is based on the use of methods that approaches related to the Ethnographic Research, with emphasis on the Photography, considered as an important Visual Me