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Mídia e Política: estratégias para a construção do “capital simbólico” dos políticos

2015; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 21; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1980-3729.2014.3.18431

1980-3729

Pedrinho Arcides Guareschi, Maria Isabel Nunes Lopes,

Brazilian cultural history and politics

This article presents the results of an ample investigation carried with political actors in order to identify their perceptions on media’s importance in the construction of political fact. The adopted method here is John Thompson’s (2011) depth hermeneutics. The body of research is composed by 14 interviews with politicians, distributed throughout the federal, state and municipal spheres: two of them being Senators, 6 ederal congressmen, 4 state congressmen and 2 city counsellors. The party affiliation was so defined: 6 members of the Labour Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT), 2 member of the Progressive Party (Partido Progressista – PP), 2 members of the Socialism and Liberty Party (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade – PSOL), 2 member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro – PMDB), one member of the Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro – PTB) and one member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro – PSB). The narratives presented here through these interviews show deals and the practices not directly evident for voters and Brazilian citizens. We endeavour to reveal how the means of communication reaffirm their capacities of creating and/or destroying political careers. The fundamental conclusion presented here is that that are orchestrated dissimulation that objectify the upkeep of asymmetrical relations of power and perpetuation of hegemonic ideologies.