Battles on the streets, war on the networks
notes on the media coverage of violence at protests
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https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v10i1.695Keywords:
Media, Mediactivism, Violence, Protests, PoliceAbstract
Regarding the outbreak of protests in Brazil since June 2013, this paper analyses how violence unleashed during demonstrations is narrated by the mass media and mediactivist collectives, focusing on the interests expressed in the narration of facts. We found that corporative press tends to take police violence as unproblematic and to emphasize the actions of so-called “vandals”, while mediactivists usually blame police for the emergence of clashes and positively represent actions associated to the Black Bloc tactics. The text presents an analytical description of the war of narratives fought between these two segments of journalism.
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