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This paper presents an analysis of the media coverage of the 2019 Women's Soccer World Cup, in Brazilian sports news websites (Globo Esporte, UOL Esporte, ESPN, Torcedores.com and Placar). It aims to map the space granted to this year's World Cup, in which there has been a significant increase in television media coverage, which included TV Globo, the country's leading network, compared to previous editions. The theoretical framework discusses the relationship between the concepts of agenda-setting and newsworthiness to interpret the large quantitative and qualitative growth in coverage on women's soccer, until recently practically invisible in the eyes of the mainstream media. The method used to process and classify the 926 units present in the corpus was content analysis, from which it was possible to identify patterns and thematic recurrences in the media coverage of the World Cup. Among the main results, we highlight a 533% growth in the number of news between the 2015 and 2019 World Cups on Brazilian sports websites. The research is a theoretical contribution to the Sociology of Journalism, Communication Science and studies about women's football in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the concept of intergenerational solidarity, this paper examines how relations of 36 elderly people with younger generations of their families influence their appropriations and uses of ICT. A multiqualitative approach - non-participant observation in ICT classes attended by the participants, followed by focus groups and semi-structured interviews - conducted in Brazil and Portugal reveals that the family contexts influence how older people deal with ICT in distinctive ways. In both countries, the influence happens either by building up social interactions and increasing communication inside and outside the family or by contributing to social and emotional isolation, even when family generations are physically close. Even within families - where supportive ties tend to be stronger than outside - intergenerational solidarity regarding digital access and use cannot be taken for granted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience of Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) in which community radios have a fundamental role, is the context for the analysis and problematisation of ideas concerning the right to communication (Peruzzo 2011, Deane 2007), communicative citizenship (Mata 2006) and representation (Fraser 2009). The radios foster conscientisation (Freire 1987), mobilisation and (re)construction of the peasant identity through programming and activities that focus on the exercise of the right to free expression and valorisation of popular cultural manifestations. Furthermore, the movement radios become a channel for dialogue with the local community. They also present conflicts and contradictions, among which are resource scarcity, barriers imposed by the restrictive radiobroadcasting law in Brazil and the transition to digital media. This paper analyses tensions and potentialities of movement radios, which are embedded in the movement's spaces such as rural settlements and schools. Departing from interviews with militant popular communicators the paper intends to discuss and contribute to the development of concepts such as right to communication (Peruzzo 2011), communicative citizenship (Mata 2005) and representation (Fraser 2009). The study demonstrates that the radios exert a mediating function (Couldry 2010) between the movement and local communities and function as a space for learning the exercise of communicative citizenship and right to communicate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The adoption of social networks to the communicative routines of young people also implies a new form of accessing both news and information about environment problems. This phenomenon affects them as citizens. Through an exploratory survey, this paper (linked to a research project) compares methods and perceptions about the information obtained from networks of future journalists from Brazil, Spain and Portugal. Among the most relevant conclusions, a high use of these tools by Communication students in order to access news is shown, although the degree of skepticism about the veracity of its contents is remarkable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the migration of Brazilian television to the digital platform, launched in 2006, the channels of public interest created after the Cable Television Law (Law 8.977/1995) are discussed again and organize themselves into networks. The main objective is to ensure space in the scenario of digital communications that begins to configure itself. In this paper, we examine the case of TV Câmara, a station of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. From this experience, we discuss the characteristics and importance of the legislative channels in the field of noncommercial television, including the questions about the state systems and public broadcasting. The objective is to evaluate what kind of role is played by these stations: in which extent these channels are governmental and institutional, without autonomy and directed primarily to protect the image of the organs that keep them? Could be they counted, as they intended, as vehicle of public communication, which help to broaden the democratic debate and make the institutions more subject to the control of citizens and more open to popular participation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historical reconstitution of Jornal Pessoal is the main goal of this paper. Considered as the most important and lasting experience of alternative journalism in brazilian Amazon, the newspaper is lead by the journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto. Created in 1987, in Belém (state of Pará), it represents a model of counter-hegemonic press in Brazil, during the post dictatorship period. The Jornal Pessoal has the absence of advertising as one of its most important characteristics. Its editorial guideline is inspired in the I.F Stone's Weekly, self-published for 19 years in U.S.A, by the journalist Isidore Stone. This study intends to discuss the reasons of the existence and lasting of Jornal Pessoal, which survives inspite of an intense campaign against it, in the court. The study also tries to demonstrate how its editor consolidates, by the newspaper, a function of public intellectual, which he incorporated after working in daily journalism for 21 years. The JP's history, its interests fields, and his concerns about the foundations and practice of journalism are the axes of this investigation, that uses documental and bibliographic research, interview and content analyses as methodological procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the relational dynamics involving art practice and activism in urban space in the context of art groups in Brazil. It discusses how what seems to be the renewal of forms of engagement and of political action and of the role of art in the context of the blur the boundaries between art and life today. It particularly focuses on the actions of Contra File, one of the so-called "collective of artists", groups which operate in public spaces producing performative interventions that mix art and activism in a quite different fashion comparing to those of the 1960's and the 1970's. Based on the connectionist logics of the networks (Granjon, 2001; Antoun 2004), these actions can be considered a social practice with interesting communicative aspects since they connect in a unusual ways urban spaces, media technology, social actors and artistic forms. These actions are often categorized as "urban interventions" or "site specific art" (Pallamin, 1998). However they use to escape all definitions as they problematize the very concepts of art and activism in order to discuss participation, social rules and control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazilian television is known worldwide. The telenovela is as popular in Brazil as its export to other countries, relying on enduring formulaic and narrative devices such as famous casts, elite Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo settings, topical social issues and storylines incorporating viewer feedback. Brazilian television drama is not limited to the telenovela, however, nor does the form wholly embody Brazilian television's representations of the nation. This paper identifies another important form of Brazilian television drama; looks at how Brazil has been represented through it; examines how these representations substantiate textual and social-cultural change; and gauges how this occurs through institutional and public perspectives. I discuss the Brazilian television mini-series and how this genre is changing its own formulaic techniques and constructs of social-cultural representation. This occurs in part by introducing independent forms of cultural production and unconventional techniques, which have come to replace literary adaptations and political-historical epics, resulting in more 'realistic' representations of Brazil, namely of its historically underrepresented. Finally, by relating the textual features of newer mini-series to concepts of hybridity, I argue for how this changing form challenges its dramatic predecessors with the realism of confronting and negotiating urban geographical, racial and gendered conflict, and with implications for understanding how more contemporary texts of a television genres are changing the conventions of representing Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analyzing the different representations of Nelson Mandela from the magazine Veja, the most sold in Brazil with an average sale of 1,200,000 copies a week. We observed 188 news stories in which Mandela was mentioned by the magazine, between the years 1978 and 2009. From political prisoner to president of his country, Mandela was being represented in different ways and this research seeks to understand the collective memory that may be resulting from these changes. Who is Nelson Mandela from Here? What values its image loads? How the representations in the magazine have been transformed over the years? Representation will be treated here, departing from the discussion of Stuart Hall, as a place of encounter between language and meaning in a given culture. The magazine Veja will be understood, then, as a place where signs and images represent shared meanings in a society, while at the same time updates or modifies these meanings. Its relationship with the memory will be established from the contributions of Halbwachs, Wertsch and Anderson, who seek to understand the intersections between culture, identity and collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]