From mediations to possible worlds: theoretical methodological trajectory of a reception study with imprisoned women

Abstract

This article presents the theoretical methodological trajectory of a research that articulates the proposition of the mediations of Jesús Martín-Barbero and how this made possible to understand the daily life of women in situation of confinement and how this one (re)configures from the mediation of the telenovela in this new environment of socialization. The Martín-Barbero map of the mediations was not the guiding thread of the study, which is guided by the perspective of the possible worlds of Galindo Cáceres, however, it’s precisely at the meeting of these two theoretical methodological perspectives that we sought to understand how the telenovela mediates the daily life of women in prison. The text seeks to share the theoretical trajectory which Martín-Barbero's map of mediations’ methodological model doesn’t show, but takes the central element found in the proposition of mediations to understand the telenovela in prison as an eminent instance of the possible worlds.