Banca de DEFESA: PEDRO LOURENCO DA SILVA NETO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PEDRO LOURENCO DA SILVA NETO
DATE: 26/10/2023
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet
TITLE:

Defense images: framing of police violence by radical alternative media

KEY WORDS:

images of violence; police violence; framing; radical alternative media; digital networks

PAGES: 182
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

In this dissertation, we question, as a research problem, how radical alternative media construct media products based on images of police violence. We seek to identify and understand the different ways in which social movements, vehicles and agents of activist and alternative communication use blatant images of abuses committed by security agents in the composition of their materials. We start from the hypothesis that many of these initiatives are structured according to the professional and textual precepts of journalism, resulting in defense journalism. This phenomenon would be based on the circulation of Defense Images – flagrant images and representations of brutality that seek to put an end to the truculence and lethality that characterize the treatment of marginalized populations. Framing Theory serves as a basis to understand both the instrumentalization of images as tools of domination and the processes of de-framing promoted as a response to violence (Butler, 2018; Sontag, 2003). In attempts to resist dehumanization, communication is sometimes configured as a self-defense tactic for peoples (Dorlin, 2020), placing these informational efforts in the category of Radical Alternative Media due to their contexts and purposes (Downing, 2004). In today's computerized world, the dynamics between actors on digital networks fuel online commotion and revolt through images and reports of police violence, leading to protests in the streets, influencing political and legal actions, elucidating cases and guiding traditional press vehicles (Mattos, 2017). Such complaints, reactions and debates write a new chapter of racial uprisings against police violence (Hinton, 2021). To analyze our object, we selected, through a process of autonetnography (Amaral, 2009), a corpus composed of Brazilian radical alternative media projects made available online between 2020 and 2022. With the help of Content Analysis instruments (Bardin, 2002) and the “critical reading of audiovisual narratives”, developed by Becker (2012), we were able to point out how defense journalism initiatives, combat campaigns, artivism and independent opinionated media, through the diverse use of flagrant and representations of police violence, seek to promote the security of the population and the preservation of the rights and dignity of victims. We conclude this investigation by recognizing the important role that these images play in today's struggles for protection and accountability, but pointing out the need for discussion about the revictimization that their indiscriminate use can promote.

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