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The aim of this paper is to understand how a celebrity activates its political capital on Instagram to oppose social oppression and also to position herself in specific contexts, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, by assuming a posture of defense of progressive values, calling on the public and public manifestations about his vision of the world, configuring herself as a celebrityresistance. From a pragmatist (França; Simões, 2020a, 2020b) and intersectional (Crenshaw, 2002; Carrera, 2021a) approach, the analysis focuses on 39 publications from the profile of the singer Preta Gil, collected between May 4 and June 4, 2021, a period started by a remarkable event in her life: the death of Paulo Gustavo, as a result of Covid-19. By looking at the positions and values assumed by this celebrity, in addition to the minority social groups to which she pursues to link, we seek to reflect on the role that celebrities-resistance can play in the symbolic disputes held in the contemporary Brazilian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to identify authors and theories used as reference by researchers in the area of Television in Brazil. The selected corpus included 67 papers from Compós during ten years (2006-2015), collected from the Working Groups Photography, Cinema and Video; Media and entertainment; Production of meaning in the media and Television Studies. This specific incursion is part of a broader research that seeks to identify the contemporary theories that underlie the field of Communication studies in Brazil. The analysis highlights two central dimensions in TV studies: a first that points out to theoretical perspectives focused on language, and a second which refers to approaches concerned with the social dimension of TV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to understand the mediation of the other and its critical potential starting from the racism debate of television show that produces "experiments" with the everyday life, called Vai fazer o quê? (TV Globo). Initially, we investigate what the representation built in one of the episodes of this show tells us about the social and media contemporary contexts and we relect on how this narrative that tries to criticize Brazilian racism ends up being itself crossed by racist ideologies. At last, we question the ethical limits of a television "experiment" that puts ordinary subjects in sufering situations without their consent and we try to apprehend the show's role on the critics it makes on racism in Brazilian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at discussing the death of Nelson Mandela, looking at the reconstruction of his biography by different media narratives. The goal is to perceive not only how the life of the South-African leader is built by the event that marks its end, but also how such event is mobilized in the emergence of some public issues in Brazil. In order to do so, the paper discusses the concept of event, highlighting the power it has to affect society and its hermeneutic power. It, then, discusses death as an event which fosters the reconstruction of public persons' biographies and analyzes the death of Mandela. The analysis shows the strength of this public person through the values attached to him (such as equality and justice). It also sheds light on the way racism was built as a public problem in Brazil in the context of the reconstruction of this biography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]