Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Vacinação: uma tematização que a imprensa privilegia

2019; Volume: 6; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24137/raeic.6.12.13

2341-2690

Sofia Gomes, Felisbela Lopes,

Communication and COVID-19 Impact

General portuguese newspapers are little interested in health prevention but when they talk about it the priority is given to vaccination. This is the most current topic on the news. Here we want to know how the subject is scheduled and who are the most privileged sources to speak about it. In order to develop this study we worked with a sample of 439 articles that had the prevention as a news item and that were published between 2012 and 2014 in the newspapers Público, Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias, Correio da Manhã, Expresso and Sol. From these 439 articles we selected 136 texts that focused on vaccination. This study is part of the PhD project "Communication and Health: Preventive Journalism and Information Sources "(SFRH/BD/89792/2012), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, course at Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho.