A Brave new world: formas atuais de distribuição de produtos comunicacionais através da comunidade heroes Brasil

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the changes and adjustments made by participants of Heroes Brasil in order to maintain, organize, increase the number of users and communicate about community, a discussion forum about the television series Heroes on Orkut. The study utilizes the netnography methodology to observe the empirical object that has as one of its main attractions, the distribution of episodes of the series through the Internet. Theoretical contributions are divided into Social Networking, Convergence Media, Consumption and Identity. The themes are analyzed from a perspective in which all axes interact and the different actors involved in the communicational phenomenon have the same relevance, as well their adaptations and contradictions.