Enquadramentos da temática ambiental: relações entre a cobertura noticiosa e as estratégias de comunicação política

Abstract

This master's dissertation aims to point out the narratives produced by the news coverage of the newspaper O Tempo and the social network posts of parliamentarians of the Ouro Preto microregion about the breaches of the iron ore dams in Mariana (2015) and Brumadinho (2019). The study includes the identification of news frameworks on environmental issues made by O Tempo, as well as the appropriation of this discussion in the Facebook page of parliamentarians Thiago Cota (MDB); Alencar Junior (PDT) and João Vitor Xavier (PSDB), the most voted deputies in the Ouro Preto microregion in 2014 and reelected in 2018. The methodology used was the content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin (2008), through the accounting of the use of sources (AMARAL, 2015) and the categorization of Valences (LEMEP / UERJ). Among the findings, we highlight the process of spectacularization in the way the environmental agenda was portrayed in the media and excessive use of authority sources for political visibility, associated with the silencing of other voices and the superficiality of news coverage, without proper approach to the complexity of critical situations involving socio-environmental justice.