Social semiotics in the construction of media reality

analysis of the representation of Azoreans

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https://doi.org/10.34629/cpublica.781

Keywords:

Azores, seismovulcanic crisis, multimodality, representation, news-values

Abstract

In March 2022, a seismovulcanic crisis began in the Azores and devastated the island of São Jorge. Despite the daily earthquakes and the imminence of a volcanic eruption, many Azoreans decided not to leave the island. Thus, the purpose of this study is to interpret how Azoreans are represented in the context of a seismovulcanic crisis. To do so, the methods used were, firstly, the critical analysis of the literature in the scope of the criteria of noticiability (Galtung & Ruge, 1965; Harcup & O'Neill, 2017; Traquina, 2002; Wolf, 1987), which determine the value that an event has to become news, and, then, the multimodal analysis (Jewitt & Henriksen, 2016; Kress, 2011) of a television report, in order to understand the meanings and intentions with which the different semiotic modes produce a certain representation about this community.

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Author Biography

  • Maria Leonor Bicudo, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho (ICS - UM)

    PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, with a Doctoral Research Grant funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), working on a project about news coverage of the Azores on the Portuguese television. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from ESCS - IPL, and a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Communication with a Minor in Tourism, Territory, and Heritage from the University of Coimbra.

    She was a correspondent for SIC in the Azores and a journalist at Diário da Lagoa. She interned at SIC's Lisbon newsroom, Açores TSF, and the newspaper Açoriano Oriental.

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Published

2023-12-15

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Vol. 18 No. 35 (2023): Number with Special Issue

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Journalism in contemporary society: 20 years of O Quarto Equívoco

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Social semiotics in the construction of media reality: analysis of the representation of Azoreans. (2023). Comunicação Pública, 18(35). https://doi.org/10.34629/cpublica.781