Violência nas escolas: a ordem do dia para os mass media

Abstract

This paper develops a reflection on how the issue of school violence became part of the media in the last decade. About the prism of the agenda-setting perspective, which proposes that for a given topic and go get media visibility composing journalistic discourse, it is essential to go through a production process-newsmaking-being transformed into a subject of public discussion , the analysis seeks to understand how school violence is presented by online media. In this sense the present study conducted a survey of both qualitative and quantitative character, which sought to understand school violence in the matters presented two major daily newspapers of national circulation, online O DIA and O GLOBO online. Understanding the phenomenon of violence as a social historical process that must be contextualized because of its multifaceted character, this paper also carries an analysis of how it is being presented by the media. It appears, from the analysis of the reports, as the issue of bullying came to compose the agenda media, not only as a problem of the school context, but also as a theme related to the judicialization of social relations.