“Brasil, mostra a tua cara”: valores identitários na cultura pop de Rolling Stone

Abstract

The pop culture and the media products cause sensations and inferences about the common world. Celebrities fit into this scenario from the moment they appear in performances - and then begin to affect the senses of the society. In Brazil, Rolling Stone presents each month these pop culture artists and their productions - through news, lists, interviews and opinion columns. The most evident space of these publications are their covers, which monthly bring a national or foreign celebrity, in profile format, to incorporate a theme in the pages of the magazine. To understand which are the identity values related to Brazil made from these profiles, 12 texts were selected with the protagonism of Brazilian celebrities - all those who are the cover of Rolling Stone Brazil between January 2012 and December 2015. To do this research, a cartographic study was developed in order to materialize this research. After the theoretical and empirical research, it was verified that each profile published in Rolling Stone Brazil contributes to the construction of identity values related to the celebrity interviewed: the woman, the actress, the sportsman, the singer, the black man, and the homosexual. In other words, the values of identities published in the content of the magazine have repercussions in society from the moment they are transmitted.