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Janice Caiafa holds a master’s in Social Anthropology from the PPGAS of the National Museum (UFRJ), a doctorate in Anthropology from Cornell University, and is Full Professor at the School of Communication at UFRJ. She was an invited researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI) at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris during the year of 2014, with a Senior Fellowship from CAPES. She performed Post-Doctoral research, with the support of CAPES and of the Fulbright Foundation, in the Department of Anthropology at City University of New York (CUNY) between 1998 and 1999. She is a 1B researcher at CNPq and a researcher at CIEC (Interdisciplinary Coordination of Contemporary Studies). She is a poet and coordinator of the “City and Communication Studies” research group. Her working areas are: Communication Theory, Anthropological Theory, Sociology of Innovation, Urban Anthropology, and Media Studies. Her main themes explored in the PPGCOM courses at ECO are: the city as a space of communication; regulation of mobility in different sociocultural contexts; collective transportation and occupation of urban space; critical analysis of media in contemporaneity and especially in the Brazilian context; ethnography of cities; tradition and experimentation in ethnographic research in anthropology and in the field of communication; technique and production of social life; delimitation of a subjective set of problems in the field of media and in the urban experience; analysis of contemporary power; horizons of experimentation and resistance in the urban field and in communicative production. She is the author of several books, among them, Trilhos da cidade: viajar no metrô do Rio de Janeiro (Editora 7Letras, 2013), Aventura das cidades: ensaios e etnografias (Editora FGV, 2007) and Jornadas Urbanas: exclusão, trabalho e subjetividade nas viagens de ônibus na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Editora FGV, 2002).
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CAIAFA, Janice. O metrô de São Paulo e o problema da rede. Contemporanea (UFBA. Online), v. 14, p. 150-170, 2016.
CAIAFA, Janice. Automação e agência humana na Linha 4-Amarela do metrô de São Paulo. Galáxia (PUCSP), v. 14, p. 83-95, 2015.
CAIAFA, Janice. Comunicação e sociabilidade no metrô de Paris: aspectos de um regime de interfaces. E-Compós (Brasília), v. 18, p. 1-17, 2015.
CAIAFA, Janice. Comunicação e automação no metrô de Paris: primeiras interfaces. Contracampo (UFF), v. 30, p. 60-72, 2014.
CAIAFA, Janice. Dinâmicas da experiência da automatização integral da condução no metrô de Paris. Contemporanea (UFBA. Online), v. 13, p. 563-613, 2014.
CAIAFA, Janice; FERRAZ, Talitha Gomes. Comunicação e sociabilidade nos cinemas de estação, cineclubes e multiplex do subúrbio carioca da Leopoldina. Galáxia (PUCSP), v. 12, p. 127-140, 2012.
CAIAFA, Janice. Aspectos do múltiplo nas sociedades da comunicação. Contracampo (UFF), v. 22, p. 16-30, 2011.
CAIAFA, Janice. Humanos e máquinas no metrô. Galáxia (PUCSP), v. 11, p. 41-53, 2011.
CAIAFA, Janice. Segunda linha: comunicação e sociabilidade na Linha 2 do metrô carioca. Logos (UERJ. Impresso), v. 17, p. 176-190, 2010.
CAIAFA, Janice. Espaço, Comunicação e Consumo no Metrô do Rio de Janeiro. Contracampo (UFF), v. 20, p. 1-32, 2009. |
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Automation and Human Agency: Reconfiguration of Communication Circuits in Line 4 of the São Paulo Metro
Description Line 4 (Yellow), inaugurated for commercial operation in May of 2010, is the first line of the São Paulo network – and of Latin America – in which the train operation is totally automatized. The full automation involved, in addition to the implantation of cutting-edge technological systems, the introduction of a new regime of human management that redistributed agents and supervisors in the space of the metro. A new surface of interfaces was produced along the communication circuits of the line operation, with the predominance of remote communication and the emergence of new ways of intermingling the human with the machine. The objective of this project is to investigate, through ethnographic research and the examination of legal documents and titles, the evolution of these everyday transformations in the line and in the metro. This study will allow for a continuation of the construction of a communication bias for the study of a means of transportation, and above all of the metro, by taking it as a medium of communicative modalities and as being, itself, a medium. It will equally allow for a contribution to some lines of research that have been developing greatly in the field of communication, such as that which is interested in the problem of digital media linked to urban mobility; that which concerns the problems of innovation in the interface with Studies in Science and Technology (STS); and even that which explores the emergence of communicative processes in the constructed space of cities. It should also lead to resources in order to shed more light on the conclusions already obtained, over many years, in studies about different modes in the context of the city of Rio de Janeiro, of New York, and of Paris.
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