One epizooty, two media coverages: yellow fever as epidemic and as non-epidemic
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i2.1339Keywords:
public health, yellow fever, communication and health, journalism, discursive practices, production of meanings in daily lifeAbstract
Cyclically affected by epizootics of wild yellow fever, in the last nine years Brazil has recorded the mediation of two of these episodes, with distinct consequences in the public health daily, in particular, and of the population, in general. In the first, in 2008, intense journalistic coverage caused an overflow of the network of meanings of the epizootic of its epidemiological dimension to the daily dimension, which ended up configuring the disease as a specific and independent object that settled in the daily life as a media epidemic of yellow fever. Differently, in 2017, the journalistic narrative centered on the objectivity of factual information, with great anchorage in the expert discourse, kept the phenomenon limited to the wild form. A comparative analysis of the news published in the two periods allowed to observe that the differences in the use of repertories and the framing of the texts determined the production of the epidemic sense in 2008 and not epidemic in 2017.
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