Mining disaster in Barcarena, Pará and media coverage: differences in duration and listening directions
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i2.2063Keywords:
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.Downloads
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