Open AccessDEHUMANIZATION AT VEJA: analysis of the construction of HIV-positive characters in magazine articles
Author(s) -
Ana Cristina Spannenberg,
Bianca Mara Guedes de Souza
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista observatório
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2447-4266
DOI - 10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n5a4en
Subject(s) - narrative , journalism , content analysis , construct (python library) , dehumanization , sociology , narrative inquiry , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , media studies , psychology , art , literature , social science , computer science , medicine , anthropology , programming language , family medicine
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).