Scenic flight

a narrative review of contemporary brazilian literaturein the context of platformization

Abstract

This study focuses on the interconnections among distinct actors in the literary field within the context of cultural platformization. The objective is to outline a panorama of contemporary Brazilian literature (CBL) on Instagram, from the production to the reception of literary texts. Three categories of subjects, namely authors, agents and publishers, reading influencers, and readers, have been established to weave a narrative review on the topic. The qualitative nature and exploratory bias characterize this research, adopting a bibliographic procedure. We selected 12 studies published in the last decade and correlated them to recognize the roles of the mentioned actors within the context of literature platformization. The results indicate that these subjects hybridize their functions, sometimes acting as authors, sometimes as mediators, and at times as literary agents. This configures the emergence of the literary field on platforms, a stance supported by Bourdieu's concepts (1996) and those of Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy (2021). In conclusion, we argue that the juxtapositions among these three categories of subjects should be considered in the realm of research on the subject.