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Battles on the streets, war on the networks: notes on the media coverage of violence at protests

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Regarding the outbreak of protests in Brazil since June 2013, this paper analyses how violence unleashed during demonstrations is narrated by the mass media and mediactivist collectives, focusing on the interests expressed in the narration of facts. We found that corporative press tends to take police violence as unproblematic and to emphasize the actions of so-called “vandals”, while mediactivists usually blame police for the emergence of clashes and positively represent actions associated to the Black Bloc tactics. The text presents an analytical description of the war of narratives fought between these two segments of journalism.

Source: RIDI - Institutional Repository of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia)

Authors: Bezerra, Arthur Coelho, Grillo, Carolina Christoph

Institutions: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

Language: Portuguese

Topic: News Media Framing and Political Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7120729762

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