A01=Fernanda Amaral
Alternative media
Author_Fernanda Amaral
Brazil
Category=JBCT
Category=JHMC
Counterpublics
Discourse analysis
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Favela
Media activism
Protests
Public communication
Representation
Social Media
Social movements
Social networks
Product details
- ISBN 9781538147436
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 160 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing how this partial representation impacts issues of identity and social segregation, the legitimation of structural violence in those sites, and providing an account of the recent emergence of digital social networks as “counterpublics”. In order to understand the struggle against the characterisation of the favela as a site dominated by violence (a framework which has been disseminated on a global scale and accepted as the norm), this book will take its readers inside the mindset of the favela media activists, examining the production of information and the organisation of the residents as they resist and challenge the status quo. Are the activists able to counteract the official narrative in the struggles against misrepresentation and social invisibility, or is the mainstream version of the favela still strong enough to help in the legitimation of the institutionalised violence?
Fernanda Amaral is a researcher at Media Discourse Centre (MDC - DMU/UK) and Laboratório de Estudos de Mídia e Relações Internacionais (LEMRI - UFRJ/BRAZIL) and holds a doctorate in Media Discourse from De Montfort University. Her work focuses on voice poverty, state violence and resistance – especially in vulnerable communities.
