Cláudia Álvares

Populism, extremism and media : Mapping an uncertain terrain

Aiming to critically review key research on populism, extremism and media, this article examines some definition aspects of populism as a concept, its relation to ‘the people’ and points to future directions for research in mainstream – and social media – the terrain where so much of the political is played out. An individualisation of civic cultures has emerged in tandem with the growth of mediated populism through the use of new technologies, with a tendency towards personalisation in the public domain. While the new technological affordances exemplified by Web 2.0 may have contributed to intensified forms of popular engagement, they have been less successful in promoting democratic values, as shown by the results of the May 2014 European Parliamentary elections. Thus, the question as to the type of publics that are ‘possible and desirable in present circumstances’ (Nolan, 2008: 747) remains valid, for publics can espouse anti-democratic values while nevertheless remaining ‘publics’. The fact that the link between the new media and right-wing extremism has been comparatively explored at greater length than that of a religious bend indicates the need to invest in the latter, especially due to home-bred Islamic terrorism increasingly seen as threatening the multiculturalism of various European societies. Several avenues for research are presented to this effect, with a final reflection on the challenge posed by new media to the concept of media populism, both in terms of the Net’s market logics and the specificity of its architecture.

Political Participation in an age of Mediatisation

Abstract The media landscape and its societal significance is in rapid transition; likewise basic features of democracy are changing. In this article we pursue these two strands in order to sketch the background to a need for a new research agenda, as well as to arrive at proposals regarding the directions that such research can take. In regard to democracy our emphasis is on the dimension of participation, while the developments in the media we capture with the term mediatisation, which signals not only the ubiquity of media but also the processes by which society increasingly adapts itself to media logics. The first section takes up political engagement and situates it within the changing character of democracy. The second section is focused on the media and dynamics of mediatisation, underscoring their signifi cance for democratic participation. In the third section we provide the foundations for a research agenda on mediatisation and democratic participation.

Political Participation in an Age of Mediatisation Towards a New Research Agenda

AbstractThe authors introduce the European Science Foundation Forward Look Report Media in Europe: New Questions for Research and Policy (2013) which summarises the conclusions and recommendations of a series of ESF workshops held in 2012 to draw up a strategic research and science policy agenda for media studies in Europe for the next 5–10 years. The presentations in five meetings, along with informal dialogue and exchanges, shed greater light on the pervasive role of the media in so many areas of social, economic, cultural and political life. Five articles based on the ESF workshop position papers by the same authors, debates in the workshops and the final conference held in Ljubljana in January 2013, and respective chapters of the ESF Forward Look Report, discuss current trends in mediated identity formation, the ‘digital divide’ conundrum, political participation in an age of mediatisation, the agency of content creators, and research literature on media literacy.Abstract The authors introduce the European Science Foundation Forward Look Report Media in Europe: New Questions for Research and Policy (2013) which summarises the conclusions and recommendations of a series of ESF workshops held in 2012 to draw up a strategic research and science policy agenda for media studies in Europe for the next 5–10 years. The presentations in five meetings, along with informal dialogue and exchanges, shed greater light on the pervasive role of the media in so many areas of social, economic, cultural and political life. Five articles based on the ESF workshop position papers by the same authors, debates in the workshops and the final conference held in Ljubljana in January 2013, and respective chapters of the ESF Forward Look Report, discuss current trends in mediated identity formation, the ‘digital divide’ conundrum, political participation in an age of mediatisation, the agency of content creators, and research literature on media literacy.

Argumentação numa esfera pública reticular: as vozes femininas online

O presente trabalho pretende averiguar como a televisao regional, na cidade de Itabuna, no sul da Bahia, aborda temas relativos as questoes ambientais. E feito um estudo de caso com o programa jornalistico tematico ´Encontro Com´, averiguando como os termos tecnico- ambientais se encontram no discurso televisivo. Os procedimentos metodologicos voltar-se-ao para uma analise quantitativa dos termos e do metodo de analise de materiais audiovisuais. Serao discutidos aspectos qualitativos a partir do discurso das materias e dos entrevistados para identificar o nivel de entendimento passado e a intencao educativa voltada para o conhecimento do publico sobre o meio ambiente.The Non Governmental Organizations are animportant source of information for the massmedia on diverse topics of social scope wherethe official speech can turn out to be cold andinsufficient. In order to interact with the massmedia, the ONG resort to a series of strategiesin order to obtain from the sensibility of the populationup to the rational knowledge of the realitiesof the countries in routes of development.In Spain the ONG that they work with immigrantsthey are a clear example of the evolution andconsolidation of these as alternative source.The growth of the immigration, of 2,3 % of thespanish population in 2000 to 9,3 % in 2006,has propitiated this evolutionWe intend in this text the reevaluationof the social responsibility concept, mainlywhen it is appropriate for the journalisticand medias entertainment companies,in the means of the problem of the medium’sconcentration, strengthen of entertainmentand of the freedom of “company”against the liberty of speech. Theresult is a journalistic covering of crimeand violence facts where what “it intereststhe public” it is not distinguished fromwhat is of “public interest” in fact.This arti cle aims to present Weber’s sociological theory in acti onin individuals contextualizing the journalisti c facts refl ected in thedisaster in Haiti . The clipping of the study was the use of the web,represented by Twitt er, social mobilizati on and functi on of conveyinginformati on to individuals. It is known that social networks havebecome major centers of informati on and are driving new humanbehaviors. In disasters such as that in Haiti , the Internet contributesto the global mobilizati on, which in previous years was representedin lower parti cipati on compared to traditi onal media like radio andtelevision. Used as carry-theoreti cal social studies of Max Weber, theanalysis of companies held by Pierre Bourdieu and author J.B. Pinho,introducing the web in the studies of journalism.The history of the press in Mexico has as objectives recover, reconstruct and interpret the way in which the journalism was executed in a specific period of time. But this history recovered only the masculine presence. The gender studies had allowed making visible the women and feminine journalists in diverse historical periods, the periodistical gender they practiced and the topics they worried about. That is how it can be affirmed that their journalism was characterized, in firsts terms, for exposing experiences out of the intimacy and interpret their own feminine condition. Subsequently, for inform about diverse situations considered news, also considered not important but relevant since end of the nineteenth century. Finally, the main objective of this article is apply gender category to journalism history.Este trabalho e parte de uma pesquisa mais extensa que tem por objetivo contribuir para uma melhor compreensao do papel que a presenca da diversidade e da diferenca nas producoes midiaticas pode trazer para os processos de enriquecimento cultural e de democratizacao das relacoes sociais. Parte-se do principio que nas sociedades contemporâneas, em que a logica do espetaculo se estende para a esfera das relacoes sociais, a visibilidade midiatica implica alguma forma de reconhecimento e de legitimacao das diversidades.The related principle of politics to news settlesthey infer in the use of the technique, thestructure and the process as systems that pickus, transmit, convey and observe a sequenceof conducts in the individual. These are waysto talk politics and to transmit it according toits individual or collective action and its turnit gives rises to spectacular behaviours. Thefreedom of Media is in the construction of thenear information by code paradigms adaptedto the human comprehensiveness throughemotional metacognitive process and adducingindifference, according to its experiences andsinequismosAbstractThis paper is based on the theoretical reference of cultural studies, the theory of social representations and the feminist criticism, to analyze, under the perspective of gender studies, Mandrake TV series, aired on HBO in Brazil, from 2005 to 2007, with a repeat in 2010. It investigates the meanings assigned to male and female bodies that conform gender identities. The analysis considered elements of the audiovisual grammar, such as frameworks, point of view, camera movement and character building. It was revealed the existence of a patriarchal look, reinforcing gender stereotypes and stigmas attached to the desire and consumption of female and male bodies.The arti cle discusses the soap opera consumpti on as a cultural productby men. Therefore, the cultural components with infl uence onthe male and female identi ty are approached. It is observed howthese aspects can act on the soap opera consumpti on by men fromlower social class who have the non-subscribed TV as a main information and entertainment source. The fi eld research was conductedby applying a questi onnaire. It is concluded that among the 10 interviewees,only one did not have the habit of watching soap operas. Allthe other parti cipants were att racted by the soap opera script.It is a question of provide elements for aninvestigation of contemporary long distanceconversation, specially the computer mediated one. To achieve our purpose, we focus initially on the conversation practice as a whole,inserting this into a wider social context of progressive destruction of distinctions between public and private spheres. Then, we recuperate some of Gabriel Tarde´s keensighted observations concerning conversation: its particularities, some of its historical issuesand, refering to our specific object, its intricate relations to sociability and communication devices. Finally, based on what was outlined, we indicate some implications of virtual technologies´ advent on contemporary conversation practicesOne objective of this work has been to address the chronic American classic comparatively with registration and identify meaning displacements around representations of popular sectors, regarding the treatment traditionally hegemonic journalism grants. The chronicles that constitute our corpus of particular interest because stories relate actual track closest thing to literary journalism, in which the subjectivity of the speaker-writer-narrator through the descriptions and events or enter other subjectivities, by choosing from multiple viewpoints. Objectivity strategies give way to making techniques fictionalization subjectivity emerge even in the use of the third person. This process causes a disruption fictionalization collective belief in mobilizing new looks that far from legitimizing the collective imaginary, establishing interpretive tensions. Is chosen, then the body deal with the methodology selected chronic discourse analysis, especially narratology instruments. For this, a theoretical framework has been instrumental from which the analysis was performed in which the contributions are articulated Schaeffer (1999), Metz (1972), Eco (1996, Genette (1972) and Ricoeur (1978), among others.This paper focuses on the problem ofracial profiling practices employed by po-lice forces in Brazil and in England. In re-cent years, this very controversial methodresulted in the death of two innocent Bra-zilian victims: Jean Charles de Menezesand Flavio Ferreira Sant’Ana. Becauseboth events were the subject of intensemedia coverage in Brazil, comparativemedia analysis may provide valuable in-sight into the question of how crimes de-riving from racist procedures call for spe-cific media strategies. My main argumentis that these two events – and the corre-sponding Brazilian public reactions theyproduced in Brazil and elsewhere – giveexpression to: 1) the problem of uncertaintyinherent in any racial profiling system,especially in multicultural settings;2) the contrastive Brazilian popular reac-tions and claims for justice in the casesabove.Under the context of mediated society, arising with the newtechnologies of communica on and informa on, the paper aimsto ques on the concept of eld of the media constructed by odrigues(1990) which sees the media even as a linear subsystemand representa onal. The ques ons occur from a current demandwhich shows the a ec on between tradi onal media (radio, TV andprint) and the possibili es of the nternet that can cause changesto outline new prospects for studies of the area of communica on.One objective of this work has been to address the chronic American classic comparatively with registration and identify meaning displacements around representations of popular sectors, regarding the treatment traditionally hegemonic journalism grants. The chronicles that constitute our corpus of particular interest because stories relate actual track closest thing to literary journalism, in which the subjectivity of the speaker-writer-narrator through the descriptions and events or enter other subjectivities, by choosing from multiple viewpoints. Objectivity strategies give way to making techniques fictionalization subjectivity emerge even in the use of the third person. This process causes a disruption fictionalization collective belief in mobilizing new looks that far from legitimizing the collective imaginary, establishing interpretive tensions. Is chosen, then the body deal with the methodology selected chronic discourse analysis, especially narratology instruments. For this, a theoretical framework has been instrumental from which the analysis was performed in which the contributions are articulated Schaeffer (1999), Metz (1972), Eco (1996, Genette (1972) and Ricoeur (1978), among others.The Ambiental Protection Area of Lagoon Enchanted, located in Ilheus city, in the state of Bahia, has a population superior of 23 thousand people, there is applied the communicational press product, with the aim of inform, educate and to touch the local population in order the preserve the environment and sustainability. The present work, in the initial phase, intends to analyze if the communication strategy developed there through APAjournal is adequate to capacity of reception if the local people - where, according the IBGE, there are 60% of illiterates. As methodological reference, this paper takes the authors Bauer & Gaskell (2002) when they write about qualitative researchers involving text, and emphasizes the analyses of the vehicle contents in question, in the period from January to April in the current year.Este estudo objetiva identificar e analisar como os sujeitos nao indigenas veem os indigenas no contexto das relacoes intergrupais e, particularmente, no contexto do processo de demarcacao e desocupacao da Reserva Indigena Raposa Serra do Sol. A pesquisa de carater quantitativo descritivo foi realizada em um jornal de circulacao nacional e os resultados indicam que as representacoes dos indigenas que circular (ou nao), nos veiculos de midia, transcende o espaco midiatico fazendo eco no espaco social, ou seja, sao as vozes dos atores sociais nao indigenas que ecoam nos espacos midiatizados, que, quando amplificados e legitimados pela midia, se tornam naturalizados, e, mesmo em se tratando de situacoes potencialmente comunicativas, sao validados como contratos de comunicacao.The soap opera is seen by the most part of theBrazilian population as one of the mainproducts of the National television, specificallyif we talk about soap operas made by RedeGlobo de Televisao which owns the know-howto accomplish such productions. The presentarticle concerns about understand in whichmeans fictional identities representations arearticulated by the receptors during thereception process taking up a case study aboutwomen homosexuality representation played inMulheres Apaixonadas soap opera (ManoelCarlos, TV Globo, 2003) as research method.Supporting theoretical references are StuartHall on identity comprehension and MichelFoucault´s contributions on sexuality disciplinaryappliance properly comprehension concerningboth identities and subjectivities.This paper aims at analyzing and iden fying the di erences and similaries between the Canadian broadcast produc ons and the Brazilianones. Then, it will consider the non-speci c codes: ligh ng, costumes,set design and color to illustrate that everything that is shownon the screen has a meaning and, in most of the cases, this secondmeaning appears only through re ec on. Based on the analysis ofnon-speci c codes, this ar cle examines the rst episode of the Braziliansoap opera om&uria, broadcasted by the Globo channel, andthe Canadian soap opera lings&rrows, broadcasted by The ovie etwork.The adoption of hypertext, the spread of search technologies and the expansion of interpersonal communication through websites, blogs and social networks change the product news: he suffers modifications to adapt to cibermeio, assimilating multimidialidade and interactivity. Meanwhile, journalist, ethics and the value of its activity are questioned by the readership. This article examines the phenomenon of structural changes in journalism from the perspective of changes with which - adopting the theoretical framework of constructionism - raise three hypotheses.Embora as projecoes de numerosos autores venhamn apontando para o desenvolvimento iminente e macico das publicacoes virtuais, a realidade mostra que a evolucao progressiva da simples referencia, passando pelo resumo mais ou menos detalhado, ate se chegar a publicacao dos textos completos vem se operando com velocidade menor que a prevista por esses autores. Uma analise da situacao real das publicacoes periodicas eletronicas mostra a necessidade de se aprimorar alguns de seus aspectos, tanto conceituais como economicos e visuais, antes de alcancarem um desenvolvimento semelhante ou superior ao das publicacoes impressas. As facilidades de pesquisa e recuperacao da informacao que oferecem os artefatos ou maquinas de busca dos diversos provedores de informacoes, para identificar eventuais documentos virtuais de interesse, sao tambem, ate o momento, precarias. Sao apontadas linhas de estudo que permitiriam melhorar nao so o nivel de qualidade dos periodicos virtuais, enquanto veiculos da informacao cientifica, mas tambem as facilidades de armazenagem e recuperacao deles contida.artigo aborda a globalizacao em suas diversas interfaces, destacando a sua relacao com as empresas e as organizacoes, principalmente na America Latina. O estudo debate o novo cenario da informacao e o impacto das novas tecnologias, dando enfase a questao da gestao do conhecimento.Atraves de leitura inicial de obras sobre o consumo, busco nesse artigo fazer uma breve revisao de obras seminais sobre o tema. Sao analisadas de maneira introdutoria as obras de Mary Douglas, Colin Campbell, Daniel Miller e Everardo Rocha, teoricos renomados do consumo.Este artigo analisa as abordagens feitas pelas revistas Veja, IstoE, Galileu e Superinteressante sobre a Sindrome do Pânico e se as materias auxiliam ou nao os portadores desse disturbio comportamental. 0 corpus compreende as edicoes publicadas entre os anos de 2003-2005 e que apresentaram reportagens sobre o tema, priorizando a analise qualitativa dessas abordagens. Tratou-se ainda de avaliar os efeitos da mensagem sobre o receptor e as reacoes deste a elas. 0 estudo e parte de pesquisa em desenvolvimento no curso de Jornalismo da Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciencias de Itabuna, no sul da Bahia.The main focus of this article is the oral movement,as a tool and as a communication sphereof popular layers. And preservation of theirculture. An alternative and precious way whenthe subjects don’t have access to the legitimatespeech forms. Including the writing. The presenttext shouts the importance of the tripod: voice,memory and tradition, as bases of continuityand future. There is in the ample literatureabout the oral text, from biblical tradition toSaramago, from the Chinese poems of CheKing to Suassuana, from Guimaraes Rosa toimprovisers, a mix of poets and journalists ofpopular quotidian, their contemporary sourceof inspiration. Voice and gest, rituals and miths,body and imaginary, all of that composing onenarrative that doesn’t end. And, clever, intrude,now, the pores of information channels and,again, find out their veios of the actuality andthe constant overcoming.Neste artigo, objetivamos apontar quais os elementos constitutivos do documentario sao capazes de diferencia-lo de outros generos audiovisuais, como o filme de ficcao e a reportagem jornalistica na TV. Sustentamos que a marca caracteristica do documentario e seu carater autoral, definido como uma construcao singular da realidade, um ponto de vista particular do documentarista em relacao ao que eretratado. Alguns elementos linguistico-discursivos evidenciam esse carater autoral: a maneira como se da voz aos outros, a presenca de parafrases discursivas e um efeito de sentido monofonico. Ainda destacamos a criatividade usada no processo de edicao e montagem como um importante indice de autoria. Tomamos como aparato teorico de analise estudos no campo do Cinema e conceitos do âmbito da Linguistica Textual e da Analise do Discurso.This paper aims to study the public disclosure of science in the process of regional development facing the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraiba. This observation takes as its starting point the possibility of transmission of the scientific information through the world wide web, and investigates the potential of this medium to the purpose of communicating science publicly. The reflections herein developed should contribute to the broadening of the debate about the importance and the role of the scientific knowledge in the maturity of an active and representative society with the government. This descriptive study made use of paper sources and survey next to researchers in the region to discuss the intended issues. At the end, the dissertation argues about the social, politic and economic development possibilities of a society whose public communication of science be available and accessible, with special attention to the specificities of the on-line communication, facing the valeparaibana region.

On White Mythologies: Detotalising the Legacy of Modernity

Abstract This article argues that modern discourse cannot be reduced to a totalising logic, but rather one of diremption between the universal and the particular. The postmodern emphasis on fragmentation camouflages the ambivalence within modernity, reducing the latter to totalisation based on an appropriation of the other within the same. By accusing modernity of perpetuating the binaries attributed to Hegelianism, Robert Young’s White Mythologies attenuates the fissures within the Hegelian description of the consolidation of self‐consciousness. These fissures are visible in Fichte’s and Schelling’s negotiations of Kantian dualisms. Hegelian idealism hovers between the Fichtean desire to affirm a transcendental, self‐positing ego that assimilates the other within itself, and Schelling’s aspiration to break with the Kantian dichotomy of sensible/intelligible realms, in the mode of a becoming that unites Spirit and Nature. Such fissures are patent in the contemporary postcolonial focus on a permanent mismatch between signifier and signified. By reproducing Hegelian ambivalence, Said, Bhabha and Spivak are heirs to the modern tradition. While Said transcends dichotomies by defending a dialectic of dependence and recognition where both sides participate as active agents in the prevalent state of affairs, Bhabha explores the concept of ‘time‐lag’ so as to interrupt modern linear temporality. Spivak, in turn, posits a catachrestic deconstructive politics of reading that seeks to reinscribe existing narrative values in a novel context. The legacy of Enlightenment thought is to be found in postcolonial deconstruction, which implies an agency capable of resisting Western humanism’s totalising impulse. As age of critique, Enlightenment represents the capacity of the individual to transcend contextual specificities by exercising independent judgement. Young’s allegation that the critic is unable to abstract himself from a dominant cultural totality is ultimately insensitive to the fact that any critique relies on the subject’s capacity to situate himself externally to his object of knowledge.

Representations of the Economic Crisis and Austerity Politics

In the period between the 2009 and 2014 elections to the European Parliament, the international economic recession and related global debt crisis impacted seriously in several European Union (EU) member states. The rights and wrongs of debt fuelled growth and bank bailouts packages shaped political discourse not just in member states seeking sovereign external support but also placed great strain on the European project and raised real questions about the very future of the eurozone. The discussion draws on the content analysis data set generated from the assessment of posters and videos in the 2014 European Parliament election. The subsample in this chapter – focused on countries which experienced significant economic decline due to the post-2008 crisis – includes 321 items – 188 posters and 133 videos – which enables significant comparisons of trends and differences in six member states (Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy and Malta). Moving beyond this core group of countries, in the final section of the chapter we examine how themes such as ‘austerity’ were also evident in other member states and discuss how the economic backdrop to 2014 elections was evident in posters and broadcast spots produced by parties and candidates across the EU. It is possible to conclude that the ideological issues and national themes that played in the past an important role (Reif and Schmitt 1980) have been replaced by economic issues. The conomy and the crisis have become the new battlegrounds among parties, even bypassing the traditional distinction between right and left. The 2014 European Parliament campaign allows us to talk of the existence of a European anti-European campaign, which may well be a feature of EU politics beyond the economic crisis itself.

Post-feminism, misogyny online, and depolitization of private

Este artigo problematiza os pressupostos do pos-feminismo, a luz da constatacao de que as crescentes oportunidades de participacao promovidas pelas novas tecnologias nem sempre estao em consonância com a defesa de valores democraticos. A arquitectura das Redes, as quais proporcionam um determinado grau de anonimato, facilita a desinibicao, ausencia de civilidade e publicitacao da intimidade, legitimando uma cultura de misoginia que reencena estruturas sociais normativas, por vezes sob a capa de promocao de uma aparente emancipacao.

Whither culture? On the predominance of cognitivism in media and communication studies

This article seeks to historically contextualise the various cognitivist models used in communication studies, namely that of media effects, focusing on the external contingencies that have influenced the predominance of the information processing paradigm. Indeed, the heavy reliance on research methods in the field of communication pays tribute to the legacy of cognitivism, because most methods used in cross-cultural and comparative studies tend to confine cultural phenomena to static predefined categories. It is argued that cognitivist communication models cannot ultimately be separated from an ideological view of human agency as prone to passive reception and susceptible to persuasion and manipulation. Understanding these ideological underpinnings implies being attentive to Foucault’s interrogation of transcendental universalism through a Kantian-inspired exploration of the conditions for the possibility of experience and a Nietzschian-inspired genealogy that emphasises knowledge as produced and maintained by technologies of power.

Argumentação numa esfera pública reticular: as vozes femininas online http://dx.doi.org/10.5216/cei.v14i2.22444

O presente trabalho pretende averiguar como a televisao regional, na cidade de Itabuna, no sul da Bahia, aborda temas relativos as questoes ambientais. E feito um estudo de caso com o programa jornalistico tematico ´Encontro Com´, averiguando como os termos tecnico- ambientais se encontram no discurso televisivo. Os procedimentos metodologicos voltar-se-ao para uma analise quantitativa dos termos e do metodo de analise de materiais audiovisuais. Serao discutidos aspectos qualitativos a partir do discurso das materias e dos entrevistados para identificar o nivel de entendimento passado e a intencao educativa voltada para o conhecimento do publico sobre o meio ambiente.The Non Governmental Organizations are animportant source of information for the massmedia on diverse topics of social scope wherethe official speech can turn out to be cold andinsufficient. In order to interact with the massmedia, the ONG resort to a series of strategiesin order to obtain from the sensibility of the populationup to the rational knowledge of the realitiesof the countries in routes of development.In Spain the ONG that they work with immigrantsthey are a clear example of the evolution andconsolidation of these as alternative source.The growth of the immigration, of 2,3 % of thespanish population in 2000 to 9,3 % in 2006,has propitiated this evolutionWe intend in this text the reevaluationof the social responsibility concept, mainlywhen it is appropriate for the journalisticand medias entertainment companies,in the means of the problem of the medium’sconcentration, strengthen of entertainmentand of the freedom of “company”against the liberty of speech. Theresult is a journalistic covering of crimeand violence facts where what “it intereststhe public” it is not distinguished fromwhat is of “public interest” in fact.This arti cle aims to present Weber’s sociological theory in acti onin individuals contextualizing the journalisti c facts refl ected in thedisaster in Haiti . The clipping of the study was the use of the web,represented by Twitt er, social mobilizati on and functi on of conveyinginformati on to individuals. It is known that social networks havebecome major centers of informati on and are driving new humanbehaviors. In disasters such as that in Haiti , the Internet contributesto the global mobilizati on, which in previous years was representedin lower parti cipati on compared to traditi onal media like radio andtelevision. Used as carry-theoreti cal social studies of Max Weber, theanalysis of companies held by Pierre Bourdieu and author J.B. Pinho,introducing the web in the studies of journalism.The history of the press in Mexico has as objectives recover, reconstruct and interpret the way in which the journalism was executed in a specific period of time. But this history recovered only the masculine presence. The gender studies had allowed making visible the women and feminine journalists in diverse historical periods, the periodistical gender they practiced and the topics they worried about. That is how it can be affirmed that their journalism was characterized, in firsts terms, for exposing experiences out of the intimacy and interpret their own feminine condition. Subsequently, for inform about diverse situations considered news, also considered not important but relevant since end of the nineteenth century. Finally, the main objective of this article is apply gender category to journalism history.Este trabalho e parte de uma pesquisa mais extensa que tem por objetivo contribuir para uma melhor compreensao do papel que a presenca da diversidade e da diferenca nas producoes midiaticas pode trazer para os processos de enriquecimento cultural e de democratizacao das relacoes sociais. Parte-se do principio que nas sociedades contemporâneas, em que a logica do espetaculo se estende para a esfera das relacoes sociais, a visibilidade midiatica implica alguma forma de reconhecimento e de legitimacao das diversidades.The related principle of politics to news settlesthey infer in the use of the technique, thestructure and the process as systems that pickus, transmit, convey and observe a sequenceof conducts in the individual. These are waysto talk politics and to transmit it according toits individual or collective action and its turnit gives rises to spectacular behaviours. Thefreedom of Media is in the construction of thenear information by code paradigms adaptedto the human comprehensiveness throughemotional metacognitive process and adducingindifference, according to its experiences andsinequismosAbstractThis paper is based on the theoretical reference of cultural studies, the theory of social representations and the feminist criticism, to analyze, under the perspective of gender studies, Mandrake TV series, aired on HBO in Brazil, from 2005 to 2007, with a repeat in 2010. It investigates the meanings assigned to male and female bodies that conform gender identities. The analysis considered elements of the audiovisual grammar, such as frameworks, point of view, camera movement and character building. It was revealed the existence of a patriarchal look, reinforcing gender stereotypes and stigmas attached to the desire and consumption of female and male bodies.The arti cle discusses the soap opera consumpti on as a cultural productby men. Therefore, the cultural components with infl uence onthe male and female identi ty are approached. It is observed howthese aspects can act on the soap opera consumpti on by men fromlower social class who have the non-subscribed TV as a main information and entertainment source. The fi eld research was conductedby applying a questi onnaire. It is concluded that among the 10 interviewees,only one did not have the habit of watching soap operas. Allthe other parti cipants were att racted by the soap opera script.It is a question of provide elements for aninvestigation of contemporary long distanceconversation, specially the computer mediated one. To achieve our purpose, we focus initially on the conversation practice as a whole,inserting this into a wider social context of progressive destruction of distinctions between public and private spheres. Then, we recuperate some of Gabriel Tarde´s keensighted observations concerning conversation: its particularities, some of its historical issuesand, refering to our specific object, its intricate relations to sociability and communication devices. Finally, based on what was outlined, we indicate some implications of virtual technologies´ advent on contemporary conversation practicesOne objective of this work has been to address the chronic American classic comparatively with registration and identify meaning displacements around representations of popular sectors, regarding the treatment traditionally hegemonic journalism grants. The chronicles that constitute our corpus of particular interest because stories relate actual track closest thing to literary journalism, in which the subjectivity of the speaker-writer-narrator through the descriptions and events or enter other subjectivities, by choosing from multiple viewpoints. Objectivity strategies give way to making techniques fictionalization subjectivity emerge even in the use of the third person. This process causes a disruption fictionalization collective belief in mobilizing new looks that far from legitimizing the collective imaginary, establishing interpretive tensions. Is chosen, then the body deal with the methodology selected chronic discourse analysis, especially narratology instruments. For this, a theoretical framework has been instrumental from which the analysis was performed in which the contributions are articulated Schaeffer (1999), Metz (1972), Eco (1996, Genette (1972) and Ricoeur (1978), among others.This paper focuses on the problem ofracial profiling practices employed by po-lice forces in Brazil and in England. In re-cent years, this very controversial methodresulted in the death of two innocent Bra-zilian victims: Jean Charles de Menezesand Flavio Ferreira Sant’Ana. Becauseboth events were the subject of intensemedia coverage in Brazil, comparativemedia analysis may provide valuable in-sight into the question of how crimes de-riving from racist procedures call for spe-cific media strategies. My main argumentis that these two events – and the corre-sponding Brazilian public reactions theyproduced in Brazil and elsewhere – giveexpression to: 1) the problem of uncertaintyinherent in any racial profiling system,especially in multicultural settings;2) the contrastive Brazilian popular reac-tions and claims for justice in the casesabove.Under the context of mediated society, arising with the newtechnologies of communica on and informa on, the paper aimsto ques on the concept of eld of the media constructed by odrigues(1990) which sees the media even as a linear subsystemand representa onal. The ques ons occur from a current demandwhich shows the a ec on between tradi onal media (radio, TV andprint) and the possibili es of the nternet that can cause changesto outline new prospects for studies of the area of communica on.One objective of this work has been to address the chronic American classic comparatively with registration and identify meaning displacements around representations of popular sectors, regarding the treatment traditionally hegemonic journalism grants. The chronicles that constitute our corpus of particular interest because stories relate actual track closest thing to literary journalism, in which the subjectivity of the speaker-writer-narrator through the descriptions and events or enter other subjectivities, by choosing from multiple viewpoints. Objectivity strategies give way to making techniques fictionalization subjectivity emerge even in the use of the third person. This process causes a disruption fictionalization collective belief in mobilizing new looks that far from legitimizing the collective imaginary, establishing interpretive tensions. Is chosen, then the body deal with the methodology selected chronic discourse analysis, especially narratology instruments. For this, a theoretical framework has been instrumental from which the analysis was performed in which the contributions are articulated Schaeffer (1999), Metz (1972), Eco (1996, Genette (1972) and Ricoeur (1978), among others.The Ambiental Protection Area of Lagoon Enchanted, located in Ilheus city, in the state of Bahia, has a population superior of 23 thousand people, there is applied the communicational press product, with the aim of inform, educate and to touch the local population in order the preserve the environment and sustainability. The present work, in the initial phase, intends to analyze if the communication strategy developed there through APAjournal is adequate to capacity of reception if the local people - where, according the IBGE, there are 60% of illiterates. As methodological reference, this paper takes the authors Bauer & Gaskell (2002) when they write about qualitative researchers involving text, and emphasizes the analyses of the vehicle contents in question, in the period from January to April in the current year.Este estudo objetiva identificar e analisar como os sujeitos nao indigenas veem os indigenas no contexto das relacoes intergrupais e, particularmente, no contexto do processo de demarcacao e desocupacao da Reserva Indigena Raposa Serra do Sol. A pesquisa de carater quantitativo descritivo foi realizada em um jornal de circulacao nacional e os resultados indicam que as representacoes dos indigenas que circular (ou nao), nos veiculos de midia, transcende o espaco midiatico fazendo eco no espaco social, ou seja, sao as vozes dos atores sociais nao indigenas que ecoam nos espacos midiatizados, que, quando amplificados e legitimados pela midia, se tornam naturalizados, e, mesmo em se tratando de situacoes potencialmente comunicativas, sao validados como contratos de comunicacao.The soap opera is seen by the most part of theBrazilian population as one of the mainproducts of the National television, specificallyif we talk about soap operas made by RedeGlobo de Televisao which owns the know-howto accomplish such productions. The presentarticle concerns about understand in whichmeans fictional identities representations arearticulated by the receptors during thereception process taking up a case study aboutwomen homosexuality representation played inMulheres Apaixonadas soap opera (ManoelCarlos, TV Globo, 2003) as research method.Supporting theoretical references are StuartHall on identity comprehension and MichelFoucault´s contributions on sexuality disciplinaryappliance properly comprehension concerningboth identities and subjectivities.This paper aims at analyzing and iden fying the di erences and similaries between the Canadian broadcast produc ons and the Brazilianones. Then, it will consider the non-speci c codes: ligh ng, costumes,set design and color to illustrate that everything that is shownon the screen has a meaning and, in most of the cases, this secondmeaning appears only through re ec on. Based on the analysis ofnon-speci c codes, this ar cle examines the rst episode of the Braziliansoap opera om&uria, broadcasted by the Globo channel, andthe Canadian soap opera lings&rrows, broadcasted by The ovie etwork.The adoption of hypertext, the spread of search technologies and the expansion of interpersonal communication through websites, blogs and social networks change the product news: he suffers modifications to adapt to cibermeio, assimilating multimidialidade and interactivity. Meanwhile, journalist, ethics and the value of its activity are questioned by the readership. This article examines the phenomenon of structural changes in journalism from the perspective of changes with which - adopting the theoretical framework of constructionism - raise three hypotheses.Embora as projecoes de numerosos autores venhamn apontando para o desenvolvimento iminente e macico das publicacoes virtuais, a realidade mostra que a evolucao progressiva da simples referencia, passando pelo resumo mais ou menos detalhado, ate se chegar a publicacao dos textos completos vem se operando com velocidade menor que a prevista por esses autores. Uma analise da situacao real das publicacoes periodicas eletronicas mostra a necessidade de se aprimorar alguns de seus aspectos, tanto conceituais como economicos e visuais, antes de alcancarem um desenvolvimento semelhante ou superior ao das publicacoes impressas. As facilidades de pesquisa e recuperacao da informacao que oferecem os artefatos ou maquinas de busca dos diversos provedores de informacoes, para identificar eventuais documentos virtuais de interesse, sao tambem, ate o momento, precarias. Sao apontadas linhas de estudo que permitiriam melhorar nao so o nivel de qualidade dos periodicos virtuais, enquanto veiculos da informacao cientifica, mas tambem as facilidades de armazenagem e recuperacao deles contida.artigo aborda a globalizacao em suas diversas interfaces, destacando a sua relacao com as empresas e as organizacoes, principalmente na America Latina. O estudo debate o novo cenario da informacao e o impacto das novas tecnologias, dando enfase a questao da gestao do conhecimento.Atraves de leitura inicial de obras sobre o consumo, busco nesse artigo fazer uma breve revisao de obras seminais sobre o tema. Sao analisadas de maneira introdutoria as obras de Mary Douglas, Colin Campbell, Daniel Miller e Everardo Rocha, teoricos renomados do consumo.Este artigo analisa as abordagens feitas pelas revistas Veja, IstoE, Galileu e Superinteressante sobre a Sindrome do Pânico e se as materias auxiliam ou nao os portadores desse disturbio comportamental. 0 corpus compreende as edicoes publicadas entre os anos de 2003-2005 e que apresentaram reportagens sobre o tema, priorizando a analise qualitativa dessas abordagens. Tratou-se ainda de avaliar os efeitos da mensagem sobre o receptor e as reacoes deste a elas. 0 estudo e parte de pesquisa em desenvolvimento no curso de Jornalismo da Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciencias de Itabuna, no sul da Bahia.The main focus of this article is the oral movement,as a tool and as a communication sphereof popular layers. And preservation of theirculture. An alternative and precious way whenthe subjects don’t have access to the legitimatespeech forms. Including the writing. The presenttext shouts the importance of the tripod: voice,memory and tradition, as bases of continuityand future. There is in the ample literatureabout the oral text, from biblical tradition toSaramago, from the Chinese poems of CheKing to Suassuana, from Guimaraes Rosa toimprovisers, a mix of poets and journalists ofpopular quotidian, their contemporary sourceof inspiration. Voice and gest, rituals and miths,body and imaginary, all of that composing onenarrative that doesn’t end. And, clever, intrude,now, the pores of information channels and,again, find out their veios of the actuality andthe constant overcoming.Neste artigo, objetivamos apontar quais os elementos constitutivos do documentario sao capazes de diferencia-lo de outros generos audiovisuais, como o filme de ficcao e a reportagem jornalistica na TV. Sustentamos que a marca caracteristica do documentario e seu carater autoral, definido como uma construcao singular da realidade, um ponto de vista particular do documentarista em relacao ao que eretratado. Alguns elementos linguistico-discursivos evidenciam esse carater autoral: a maneira como se da voz aos outros, a presenca de parafrases discursivas e um efeito de sentido monofonico. Ainda destacamos a criatividade usada no processo de edicao e montagem como um importante indice de autoria. Tomamos como aparato teorico de analise estudos no campo do Cinema e conceitos do âmbito da Linguistica Textual e da Analise do Discurso.This paper aims to study the public disclosure of science in the process of regional development facing the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraiba. This observation takes as its starting point the possibility of transmission of the scientific information through the world wide web, and investigates the potential of this medium to the purpose of communicating science publicly. The reflections herein developed should contribute to the broadening of the debate about the importance and the role of the scientific knowledge in the maturity of an active and representative society with the government. This descriptive study made use of paper sources and survey next to researchers in the region to discuss the intended issues. At the end, the dissertation argues about the social, politic and economic development possibilities of a society whose public communication of science be available and accessible, with special attention to the specificities of the on-line communication, facing the valeparaibana region.

New questions and themes in studying gender and communication

The aim of this special issue of Interactions is twofold. __The first aim__ is to shed light on the changes in the field of gender and media, and together with these, the challenges this research field faces. The major part of the theoretical development in gender and media took place in the early 1980s and was instigated from a feminist perspective. More than 30 years later, society, feminist issues and academic knowledge on media have changed tremendously, each with its repercussions in the study of gender and media. __The second aim__ of this issue is to create a modest contribution of various ways that lie ahead of us to face these challenges. Though the changes since early feminist media studies have been widely acknowledged, new ways of researching and thinking about new themes and questions are scarce. This issue consists in a compilation of articles from various fields and features contributions from cultural studies, cultural sociology and communication science scholars. Together they present insights into the complexity of the themes and questions faced.