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From the understanding that soccer enables us to reflect upon issues related to identity, social life, and disputes within a certain society, this article aims to investigate the influence of sport on the socio-spatial configuration of Mariana, Minas Gerais - Brazil, through the rivalry between the two traditional clubs of the city: Marianense Soccer Club and Guarany Soccer Club. Considering the dynamics of communicative processes and social interactions, this work deals with oral narratives collected by means of interviews conducted with residents of the municipality who had experienced this rivalry strength, which peaked and declined in the twentieth century. The memories reveal that the dichotomy between Marianense and Guarany concerning private, public, and sportive spaces 1) generated geographic and symbolic movement in a city that was stagnated ever since the end of the gold cycle and, driven by soccer clubs, 2) developed new habits, relationships, and civilization aspects, revealing structural questions related to politics, ethnics, and social class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Former President John F. Kennedy, as well as an iconic character in US and world politics, has starred in hundreds of magazine covers. In recent years, in 2013 and 2017, two volumes celebrated, respectively, the 50th anniversary of JFK's death and the centenary of his birth; both produced under the memorial legacy key. LIFE's 2017 edition and TIME's 2013 edition each transform into a "book magazine". These two editions summon the material plot of book production to report, in chapters, the public and private trajectory of the former president. Taking the 2013 issue of TIME magazine as the central object of the analysis, the text problematizes the tensions between book and magazine as graphic-visual and communicative materialities. It analyzes how this mutual affectation is reflected in a journalistic production, reconfiguring the nature of a magazine and characterizing the content of a historical dossier, revealing editorial principles and temporalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text tries to think about processes involved in the formation of the identity of a magazine editorial section. Taking as a reference a broad survey about Vida Simples magazine published each month by Editora Abril, we problematize up on the characteristics and structure of a publication and how its editorial movements and communications put into play some specular and metonymic dynamics that shape its entirety and at the same time provide reflective elements to an inquiry regarding the so-called magazine journalism. The main idea developed is that there is some self-reference that tends to infinity in the magazine and in the actions that it shapes editorially. It's a movement that, rather than pointing a thematic and ideological performance line allows the visualization of a journalistic procedural singularity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a prominent subject in contemporary journalism. A growing set of stories deal, under the rubric of "services", with the issue of quality of life, discussing the well-being in current societies. Facing this context, this article aims at refl ecting on this topic through the lenses of magazine journalism. The paper sheds light on the way this type of information simultaneously responds to certain social demands and nurtures them. The discussion addresses historical questions and focuses on the dialogue between social issues and journalistic production, thus disclosing features of the magazine. It conceives of magazines as a specifi c medium of communication, which elaborates, through segmented publications, an editorial construct in consonance with a contemporary model of well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text thinks about the technique as part and as a constituent concept of mediatization, proposing characterize and cross some specific issues. For this exercise, we consider a conceptual building about television technique, pointing out to the practices which are in tension when engendered by media and society. In this way, it is covered up some operational aspects that contributes to media studies and particularly to the studies about mediatic communication and its processes. Such reflection is dimensioned by a specific empirical objetc, the "Isabella Nardoni's case", whose impact on the Brazilian media, rather than just pointing out to moral and ethical issues, drew some logical operation of television and telejournalism nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]