DEHUMANIZATION AT VEJA: analysis of the construction of HIV-positive characters in magazine articles

Considering the importance of journalism in social life and its ability to build and maintain stigmas, this article presents the results of a research that sought to verify how HIV positive people are represented in Veja’s reports. We conclude that the magazine is unable to construct the AIDS narrat...

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Authors: Spannenberg , Ana Cristina, Souza, Bianca Mara Guedes de
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT)
Repository:Revista Observatório
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revista.uft.edu.br:article/10970
Online Access:https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/observatorio/article/view/10970
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:AIDS; Content Analysis; Revista Veja.
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Summary:Considering the importance of journalism in social life and its ability to build and maintain stigmas, this article presents the results of a research that sought to verify how HIV positive people are represented in Veja’s reports. We conclude that the magazine is unable to construct the AIDS narrative in a humanized way. For this, the work considered the perspectives of Ijuim (2011) on humanized journalism, the research by Soares (2002) and Fausto Neto (1999) on the AIDS narrative, and the indications of Coimbra (2004) and Brait (1985) for the construction of characters in the journalistic text, taking into account the methodology of Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2011).