Eduardo Cintra Torres

Representações das demências na imprensa (2001-2010)

No primeiro ano do seculo XXI a Organizacao Mundial de Saude deu um grande destaque a celebracao do Dia Mundial da Saude Mental, estimulando o interesse pelas doencas mentais, nomeadamente pela sua cobertura mediatica. Neste artigo, apresentamos os resultados de um estudo quantitativo das representacoes das demencias em tres jornais diarios portugueses na decada de 2001-2010. Considerando redutora uma analise limitada aos artigos nas seccoes de saude, o estudo alargou-se a todo o corpo dos diarios, o que permitiu mostrar uma atencao regular ao tema, em especial a doenca de Alzheimer, em todos os generos jornalisticos, uma grande variedade de fontes, protagonistas e assuntos, e ainda uma atitude de inclusao concomitante com um tratamento objetivo. O noticiario da imprensa portuguesa sobre as demencias e no seu conjunto isento de estereotipos negativos, favorecendo uma informacao suficiente dos leitores e a integracao das demencias entre os temas consensuais e relevantes no espaco publico.

Understanding how and why people participate in crowd events

The participation and collective effervescence in crowd events is a perennial issue in social sciences, however it has scarcely been researched from the point of view of the attendees. This article helps to fill the gap with an exploratory descriptive study based on a sample of 1,553 respondents from 40 countries. The authors analyse seven different types of events and also describe the various participation levels, whether people go there alone or in company, and their reasons for attending. Globally, the results show several specific patterns: (a) the majority of the participants often go to collective events, but different events have different levels of participation; (b) people rarely go alone to collective events, but the company depends on the type of event; (c) although the results show it is not necessary to like the event to trigger participation, people have different reasons for going to different events. The article concludes with a cluster analysis that details the links between attendance, company, and reasons to attend, according to the socio-demographic factors.