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Authors
Correia, João Carlos
Vizeu, Alfredo
Advisor(s)
Abstract(s)
After the optimism which followed the falling of the Berlin Wall, one
has found out that the alternative to the Cold War wasn’t the Global Peace.
Regional conflicts have grown stronger, becoming more intense than ever. At
several levels, some taken-for-granted evidence were shaken by new social,
cultural, political and technological phenomena.
Risk, contingence, and entropy became major categories of contemporary
theoretical approaches. The post-modern society appears now to contemporary thought as a new world shaped by social and cultural fragmentation, and
the eruption of new identities. The emergence of a novel public sphere concerned, mainly, with emergent social and political rights of minorities; and
the constant flow of people, either immigrants or refugees crossing cultural
and geographic spaces, brought to light new and old identities, leading those
ancient and secure borders to collapse. Some confluent phenomena such as environmental problems, contemporary hazards associated with nuclear power,
chemical pollution, terrorism, changes on cultural attitudes, the “women’s lib”
and their subsequent arrival to labour market, the crisis of the old traditional
mediation apparatus (Church, Family, Tradition), the decadence of ideologies,
emerge as main features of a society where everything that was solid melted
on air (Adam, Beck, e van Loom 2000: pp 6-7). Increasing reflexivity in face
of answers once taken-for-granted challenged by those enormous changes, and
anxiety in face of a changing world makes that concern with security and risk
become a major problem of our societies. Insecurity is thus an existential context: we don’t know anymore how to go on the basis of tradition. The implicit
validity claims of taken-for-granted values and traditions become problematic
and potentially questioned (Adam, Beck e van Loom, 2000:37)-
Throughout this text, one appeals to a theoretical approach where we can
find elements from the phenomenology of Lebenswelt, from the theory of multiple realities, from the theory of social representations and also from the analysis of the didactic and safety functions of journalism. With this approach, we
achieve the conceptual framework adequate to perception and analysis of the
media representation of a complex society, confronted with the insecurity of
its taken-for-granted structures and with new enclaves of meaning. The appearance of new provinces of meaning is related with the emergence of a pluralistic public sphere and with the eruption of some expressions of identity and
life-styles concerned with the so called post-modern changes
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Keywords
Journalism Multiple realities
Citation
Estudos em Comunicação n o1, 305-318 Abril de 2007