The challenges of speaking out: approaches to mediated testimony from reports about violence against women in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i137.3192Keywords:
witnessing, violence, gender, journalism, narrativeAbstract
This article attempts to reflect on the nature of the testimony of midiatic texts and their confrontation with individual testimony, using two specific cases. The reflection developed here is driven toward a brief textual analysis of two news stories circulated by Brazilian television news programs, regarding two events linked to violence against women. The question is raised, here, both as to what it means to take these texts as "testimonial texts"" as well as about the quality (if any) of the testimony presented therein. Even considering that that the notion of ""media witness"" appears at first as strong and instigating, it cannot be generalized to any and all miditiac text at the risk of losing its strength and producing easy homogenizations."References
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Berns, N. (2001). Degendering the problem and gendering the blame: Political Discourse on Women and Violence. Gender & Society, 15(2), 262–281. http://doi.org/10.1177/089124301015002006
Bresciani, M. S. (2004). Identidades inconclusas no Brasil do século XX - Fundamentos de um lugar-comum. In M. Bresciani & M. Naxara (Eds.), Memória e res(sentimento) (pp. 405–430). Campinas: Editora da Unicamp.
Bufacchi, V. (2013). Knowing Violence : Testimony , Trust and Truth. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 3(265), 277–291.
Bullock, C. F., & Cubert, J. (2002). Coverage of Domestic Violence Fatalities by Newspapers in Washington State. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 17(5), 475–499. http://doi.org/10.1177/0886260502017005001
González, P. C. (2007). Movimientos sociales y medios de comunicación: el cambio en el tratamiento de la violencia contra las mujeres. Recerca. Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi, (7), 211–239. https://bit.ly/1ThVrfn.
González, P. C. (2010). El proceso de construcción de la violencia contra las mujeres: medios de comunicación y movimiento feminista. Una aproximación desde la teoría del "framing". Universitat Jaume I. http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/21779
Larsen, P. (2015). Las ficciones mediadas. In Jensen, K. B. La comunicación y los medios: metodologías de investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa. (pp. 209-243). México: FCE.
Leal, B. S., Antunes, E., & Vaz, P. B. F. (2012). El acontecimiento como contenido de las noticias: repensando una metodología. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 18(1), 383–398. http://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP. 2012.v18.n1.39377
Leal, B; Carvalho, C; Alzamora, G (org) (2017). Textualidades mediáticas. Barcelona: UOC, 2017
Lockyer, S. (2008). Textual Analysys. Given, L. M. (Ed.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. London: SAGE Publications, Inc. http://doi.org/10.4135/9781412963909
Nettleton, P. H. (2011). Domestic Violence in Men’s and Women’s Magazines: Women Are Guilty of Choosing the Wrong Men, Men Are Not Guilty of Hitting Women. Women’s Studies in Communication, 34(2), 139–160. http://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2011.618240
Pereira, P. (2009). Violência e tecnologias de gênero: tempo e espaço nos jornais. Estudos Feministas, 17(2), 485–505. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ref/v17n2/11.pdf
Peters, J. D. (2011). Witnessing. In P. Frosh & A. Pinchevski (Eds.), Media witnessing: testimony in the age of mass communication (pp. 23–41). Palgrave Macmillan.
Richards, T. N., Kirkland Gillespie, L., & Dwayne Smith, M. (2011). Exploring News Coverage of Femicide: Does Reporting the News Add Insult to Injury? Feminist Criminology, 6(3), 178–202. http://doi.org/10.1177/1557085111409919
Ryan, C., Anastario, M., & DaCunha, A. (2006). Changing coverage of domestic violence murders: a longitudinal experiment in participatory communication. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21(2), 209–28. http://doi.org/10.1177/0886260505282285
Simões, R. (2011). Crime, Castigo e Género nas Sociedades Mediatizadas: Políticas de (In) justiça no Discurso dos Media. Universidade de Coimbra. https://bit.ly/2Lfqayp.
Simões, R. J. B. de. (2007). A violência contra as mulheres nos media: lutas de género no discurso das notícias (1975-2002). Coimbra: Coimbra Editora.
Taylor, R. (2009). Slain and Slandered: A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Femicide in Crime News. Homicide Studies, 13(1), 21–49. http://doi.org/10.1177/1088767908326679
Vivarta, V. (coord. . (2011). Imprensa e agenda de direitos das mulheres: uma análise das tendências da cobertura jornalística. Brasília: ANDI – Comunicação e Direitos e Instituto Patrícia Galvão.
Wozniak, J. a, & McCloskey, K. a. (2010). Fact or fiction? Gender issues related to newspaper reports of intimate partner homicide. Violence against Women, 16(8), 934–52. http://doi.org/10.1177/1077801210375977.
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Souza Leal, B., & Antunes, E. (2018). The challenges of speaking out: approaches to mediated testimony from reports about violence against women in Brazil. Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana De Comunicación, (137), 275–293. https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i137.3192
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