Estupro coletivo no Rio: sentidos que emergem da trama entre jornalismo e comentários no twitter

Abstract

This work aims to investigate and analyze the meanings that emerge on Twitter from the press coverage of violence against women. Therefore, we look at the case of the mass rape of a teenager in Rio de Janeiro in May 2016 and we work considering the woofs that are established between the discourse of hegemonic media and what the subjects say in the social networks. We tried to bring to the debate, tensioning the narratives, from key concepts in journalism studies, such as Theory of Communication Event, to contributions from Gender Studies, which allowed us to analyze the speeches and articulated meanings and their relationship with the data regarding the violence of gender in Brazil. We used as a methodology to evidence and produce inferences from these senses the Analysis of the Construction of Meanings in Digital Networks, which allowed us to conclude that journalism and subjects on Twitter are mutually activated throughout the repercussion of the case. In addition to this activation, journalism as a form of knowledge stands out as one of the pillars that support the understanding of subjects regarding issues constantly debated in society such as gender, violence and justice. In addition, we realize that journalism, in this case, makes use of a discourse that maintains the status quo by exploring only specific elements that impact and reverberate on social networks, without contextualizing or reflecting on its formative role. We cannot ignore, however, the strengthening in social networks of feminist discourses, sorority and questioning of narratives from the hegemonic media and coping with the victim's blame, which also find an echo in the press coverage, albeit in an incipient way.