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Between facts and news: Journalism, common sense knowledge and public sphere

dc.contributor.authorCorreia, João Carlos
dc.contributor.authorVizeu, Alfredo
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dc.date.available2020-02-18T10:38:30Z
dc.date.issued2007-04
dc.description.abstractAfter 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 changespt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationEstudos em Comunicação n o1, 305-318 Abril de 2007pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1646-4974
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/9299
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherLabcompt_PT
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dc.subjectJournalismpt_PT
dc.subjectMultiple realitiespt_PT
dc.titleBetween facts and news: Journalism, common sense knowledge and public spherept_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage318pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage305pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEstudos em Comunicaçãopt_PT
oaire.citation.volume1pt_PT
person.familyNameCorreia
person.familyNameVIZEU
person.givenNameJoão Carlos Ferreira
person.givenNameALFREDO
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6317-9007
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