Open AccessPolitical Economy of Popular Journalism on Comparative Perspective: An Analysis on Tabloidization in Brazil, India and South Africa
Author(s) -
Viktor Chagas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
brazilian journalism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1981-9854
pISSN - 1808-4079
DOI - 10.25200/bjr.v12n1.2016.925
Subject(s) - journalism , politics , perspective (graphical) , phenomenon , political science , subject (documents) , order (exchange) , social science , media studies , sociology , law , library science , epistemology , art , philosophy , economics , finance , computer science , visual arts
At the turn of the 1990s to the 2000s, a debate on an alleged "tabloidization" of the European press took academic research on journalism, especially since the works of Esser (1999) and Sparks & Tulloch (2000), which sought to conceptualize the term. The academic literature since then has dealt with the subject in different settings and contexts around the world (cf. PIONTEK, 2011; MOONEY, 2008; LIMA, 2009). In Brazil, however, there were few efforts in order to deepen the knowledge on tabloid genre. The main purpose of this article is to characterize the phenomenon as it appears in the Brazilian market, comparing the performance of tabloids to what authors like Wasserman (2010), Ogola & Rodny-Gumede (2014) and Ranganathan & Rodrigues (2010) have observed in countries like India and South Africa.