Name: MAÍRA MENDONÇA CABRAL
Publication date: 30/08/2022
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| RAFAEL DA SILVA PAES HENRIQUES | Advisor * |
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| RAFAEL DA SILVA PAES HENRIQUES | Advisor * |
Summary: This research aims to analyze the coverage of the printed newspaper A Gazeta, between 2011 and 2018, on the Public Security programs developed by the government of Espírito Santo, during two administrations of the state Executive Power: the Present State in Defense for Life and Social Occupation, which were created with the purpose of acting both in the axis of police repression and in the axis of prevention, through initiatives in the social area to reduce violence in neighborhoods considered to be highly violent in the State. Understanding journalism as a discursive territory, capable of influencing the way people see their space and time, we use Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), based on the three-dimensional model proposed by the English author Norman Fairclough, both for the theoretical basis and as a methodological research tool, in order to unravel the meanings that circulate from journalistic utterances. The corpus of analysis is composed of 241 texts, published in A Gazeta between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2018, years that mark the beginning and end of the implementation of public security policies during the administration of governors Renato Casagrande and Paul Hartung. We conclude that the main contribution of the newspaper throughout the analyzed period is the formulation of the sense that the fight against violence needs to go beyond the police dimension, also taking into account the social demands, which historically contribute to the increase in crime. However, by privileging the government's discourse, which appears as the main enunciator in the news, journalism not only legitimizes the actions of the state, mostly endorsing a shallow discourse on intersectoriality in public policies, but, at the same time, restricts the participation of the population. , especially the groups that are directly affected by the implementation of security policies. The strong linkage of coverage to the dynamics of political relations, which have the dispute between administrations at the center, leads to an absence of polyphony. In addition, journalism does not follow, demand and investigate the results of the implementation of this policy. As a result, it fails to fulfill purposes such as being plural, giving voice to the socially and economically less privileged and acting in favor of citizenship. Keywords: journalism, territory, meanings, public security policies, critical discourse analysis.
