Mining disaster in Barcarena, Pará and media coverage: differences in duration and listening directions

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i2.2063

Keywords:

Disaster, Mining, Barcarena, Media coverage, Political Ecology, Decolonial perspective.

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the media coverage of the socio-environmental disaster that occurred in 2018, in Barcarena, Pará, and to discuss both the differences between the duration of the disaster (prolonged) and the duration of the coverage (concentrated), as well as the listening directions between the repercussion events generated by offiial/institutional voices and the presence/absence of popular voices from communities and social movements. As a result, it presents three moments of analysis of data collected in national clipping over eight months: a quantitative analysis of the frequency of coverage indicating reach and duration of media visibility; a quanti-quali cut pointing out how the media schedules and promotes framing through the sources used in the production of the news; a qualitative analysis, in the decolonial perspective, of how historically silenced voices appear in the coverage of the disaster. To understand disaster as a process, we fist seek to situate the context of mining in the Amazon from the perspective of Political Ecology.

Author Biographies

Rosane Albino Steinbrenner, Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos. Belém, PA

Doutorado em Desenvolvimento Socioambiental pela Universidade Federal do Pará.

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto, Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos. Belém, PA

Mestrado em Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Pedro Loureiro de Bragança, Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos. Belém, PA

Mestrado em Planejamento do Desenvolvimento pela Universidade Federal do Pará.

Edna Maria Ramos de Castro, Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos. Belém, PA

Doutorado em Sociologia pela Ecoledes Hautes Etudes.

Published

2020-06-26

How to Cite

Steinbrenner, R. A., Guerreiro Neto, G., Loureiro de Bragança, P., & Ramos de Castro, E. M. (2020). Mining disaster in Barcarena, Pará and media coverage: differences in duration and listening directions. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i2.2063

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Section

Communication and environment dossier