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  • O “arrastão” de Carcavelos como onda noticiosa
    Publication . Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
    O crime fornece aos meios de comunicação uma matriz de desvio comportamental e gera uma fonte inesgotável de notícias. Em contextos muito particulares, o grau de unanimidade entre meios de comunicação, o consenso entre definidores primários, o volume da cobertura jornalística e o exagero ou distorção inerentes à catalogação de várias ocorrências numa categoria ressonante geram ondas noticiosas num curto intervalo temporal, um fenómeno que carece ainda de enquadramento sociológico. O artigo descreve como o “arrastão” de Carcavelos de 2005 acompanhou o modelo descrito por Peter Vasterman para as ondas noticiosas, sugerindo um elemento adicional: quando a onda noticiosa se forma perante um consenso alargado, é escassa a disponibilidade para incorporar na cobertura jornalística elementos que contradigam o enquadramento predominante.
  • The swine flu pandemics in Portugal through newspaper humour
    Publication . Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
    Using semiotic and discourse analysis methodologies to uncover denotative and connotative meanings in journalism production, following Roland Barthes’s work, our research analyzed newspaper humour published in one Portuguese newspaper about the global build-up of the swine flu (H1N1) scare of 2009-2010. Results demonstrate that humour was much quicker than traditional journalistic templates to assign responsibilities and depict failures in the crisis management system, precociously suggesting that the pandemic could be just another moral panic similar to the bird flu of 2005. Through humour, newspapers stressed the cyclic nature of health risks, reducing the impact of dramatic information on the audience. It is therefore suggested that the sociological analysis of a media outlet in the context of a complex and emotional case such as the 2009-2010 pandemic implies its deconstruction layer by layer in order to obtain a clear picture of the mechanisms of social construction of reality.
  • Entrevista a Gaye Tuchman
    Publication . Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
    A socióloga Gaye Tuchman esteve em Portugal a 20 de Outubro de 2009, a convite da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD), onde deu uma palestra sobre as «Mudanças nas Universidades Americanas». Esta investigadora da Universidade de Connecticut, com trabalho reconhecido no campo da sociologia do jornalismo e da sociologia do género, abordou o seu legado sobre a evolução do conhecimento nestas áreas e estabeleceu balizas para a investigação futura.
  • Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
    Publication . Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
    In April 2009, a new strain of influenza subtype H1N1 emerged due to the rearrangement of two RNA segments. The strain incorporated two segments of the genome of porcine origin and was officially designated as A/California/4/2009/H1N1. In June 2009, alarmed by the infection’s progress, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the “level six” of the geographical progression scale for epidemics and kept it at that level until August of the following year. The Portuguese media activated the public health alarm and integrated it into its agenda, but the volume and severity indicators of the news coverage did not correspond to the epidemiological indicators of progression. This paper describes how two narratives with different rhythms for the swine flu pandemic de facto emerged.