A morte de Agostinho Neto nos jornais portugueses

Desde os primórdios da internet que o som nos conteúdos jornalísticos ocupa um lugar secundário ou acessório. O subaproveitamento do som no ciberjornalismo tem sido reconhecido por académicos e profissionais, e só mais recentemente os jornais portugueses parecem ter-se apercebido das potencialidades do som e começado a produzir conteúdos sonoros exclusivos que distribuem em podcast. Este estudo incide em três jornais portugueses de informação geral (Público, Expresso e Observador), os únicos em que foram encontrados podcasts atualizados. Nesse sentido, serão analisados os produtos sonoros disponibilizados nos respetivos sites dos três jornais, nas suas contas no Soundcloud e no iTunes. O objetivo é caracterizar o áudio em podcast destas publicações para perceber como um jornal em ambiente digital desenvolve produtos sonoros e se contém elementos distintivos que possam revelar uma identidade própria. Perante as possibilidades do aproveitamento do áudio e do podcast uma das conclusões deste estudo é a de que depois de um momento de tímido investimento nos conteúdos áudio, de avanços e recuos na última década, os jornais começaram finalmente, a apostar no som embora ainda de forma exploratória e muito próxima do produto radiofónico.

In the scope of our research on the field of the Reception of Antiquity in Portugal dedicated to the identification, gathering and analysis of news and articles concerning the discovery of the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamon publish between 1922 and 1939 on the Portuguese newspapers and magazines, we come across a novel published in Lisbon in 1924, written by Fernando de Carvalho Henriques entitled A Profecia ou O Misterio da Morte de Tut-Ank-Amon. The main storyline of the novel (developed in the chapters I, VI-XIV), the author fit in a story (in the chapters II-IV) about “antiquity facts” to which he used “historical knowledge” about the ancient Egypt of the period of Tutankhamon, inspired by the late discovery of the tomb of that Egyptian pharaoh (KV 62) by Howard Carter in western Luxor, officially dated 4th of November of 1922. Sharing some features with the thriller genre, it is the first novel ever published internationally inspired by the great Egyptian archaeological discovery. We do not know the primary or secondary sources that were used by F. de Carvalho Henriques to write the chapters II to IV of his novel. We do not know his historical readings about the period of Tutankhamon (18th dynasty). We do not know his actual knowledge about all the themes that compose his novel. But we do know one thing: his historical knowledge regarding the ancient Egypt is broadly well sustained, thorough, as we intend to demonstrate, and it prove that the echoes of the distant Egyptian excavations inspired and stimulated the imagination of an illustrious unknown Portuguese, and, through him, his readers.

This article considers the texts written by Maria Velho da Costa when she was living in London, in the early 1980s. Taking a closer look at the crónicas initially published in the Portuguese newspaper A Capital, at a time when the relationship between Portugal and its European others was under intense scrutiny, and subsequently compiled in O mapa cor de rosa: cartas de Londres (1984), I argue that the process of dislocation experienced by the writer encouraged her to develop a literary cartography with unstable geographic and cultural boundaries and through which personal, national and linguistic identities and locations are seen as hybrid and always in transit.

Representações do suicídio na imprensa generalista portuguesa

Local contestation to the deployment of large-scale renewable energy infrastructures has been increasing. Right-wing populism has also been on the rise across the world. This article aims to explore the potential relations between these two socio-political issues, by analyzing Portuguese media discourses on the renewable energy transition and if and how those expose associations with right-wing populist rhetoric. 465 articles published by Portuguese newspapers were analyzed through Thematic Analysis, which revealed three main themes: Portugal at the forefront of the green transition; the dark side of the transition; and, less pervasively, energy justice as crucial for a green transition. These themes and how they are discursively organized resonate with far-right wing populist rhetoric, such as nationalist, anti-elitist and anti-establishment views. This might find echo in rural communities affected by the green energy transition feelings of marginalization. Key policy highlights Portuguese media communication on the green transition and its injustices, uses similar devices and tropes to right-wing populist rhetoric, which might incentivize support to right-wing populist parties; The media have a key role in communicating about the green energy transition and related justice issues in a politicized and multivocal way; Policy-makers need to promote a more just transition and contest the commodification of renewable energy and the discourse of renewable energy infrastructures as inherently sustainable.

Chapter 7 presents a study where the authors undertake the critical exploration of the media representation of PISA in the Portuguese newspaper Público. They sought to ascertain and understand, within the Portuguese context, how a national reference general-interest daily newspaper refers to the process of Portugal’s participation in PISA, to the results of PISA and their respective implications, both in news discourse and in opinion discourses, in the period from 2001 to 2018. The interest in the media exploration of PISA derives from acknowledging that the mass media are an element of the global information society, both by making information available and steering the attention of the target audiences, and by contributing to shape their beliefs and value systems, their representation and attribution of importance to the different current events. The study shows, first, a progressive evolution of the coverage and prominence attributed by the newspaper to PISA, signs of its growing credibility and political importance in society and in the media agenda; second, the growing positive tone of the titles of the pieces, signalling the recognition of the favourable evolution of the Portuguese results in PISA, especially evident in the news stories, in contrast to a greater negativity in the chronicles/opinion pieces; and, finally, the almost absence of the “public voice”, in particular of the direct protagonists of the schools, signalling the newspaper’s limited openness to a socially plural opinion. These seem to be three important conclusions that can be drawn from the analysis of the surface features of Público’s production on PISA.

A Portrait of Music Stars in the Media: A Study about Portuguese Newspapers

Disaster communication guidelines emphasize that journalists should be aware of past major disasters and draw lessons from the coverage of those events. The press is an important source for the evolution of historical disaster and risk research paradigms over time. This study explored the top 10 damaging hydrogeomorphological events in Portugal selected from the disaster database, which includes events that caused human damages (fatalities, injured, missing, evacuated, and displaced) reported over a period of 151 years (1865–2015) by the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias (DN). News analysis was guided by the news protocol. The analysis of the news published in DN enabled us to identify textual marks that present interconnections in the journalistic coverage and produce discursive standards for these disasters. The textual marks were associated with the hazard and risk paradigms. The discursive standards of DN did not clearly reflect the ruptures in the hazard paradigms. As a rule, the journalistic reports contributed to the naturalization of disasters and the gap in public understanding of risks, by presenting an approach focused on relief actions—ignoring social issues, vulnerability, and population resilience—reducing the discourse of preparedness for future disasters.

In a context of digitalization and economic crisis, Portuguese newspapers are struggling to survive in an adverse scenario. The figures for paid circulation and advertising revenues show a decreasing operational business, aggravated by the fact that Portugal is a small market with traditional low levels of readership. Digital strategies and the search for other non-traditional revenues are in place, but newspaper companies have not managed to new achieve levels of revenues that replace the loss in circulation and advertising.

Death is one of the most prominent news values, especially when combined with another characteristic of newsworthiness: the notoriety of the individual. Based on the combination of death and prominence of the personality, this paper proposes an approach to media discourses on the death of the political Portuguese leader, António de Oliveira Salazar, former President of the Council during the dictatorial regime, known as Estado Novo (New State). Considering the newspapers published at the time of his death, July, 1970, and taking into account the existence of the censorship, this study analyzes the coverage of the event, as well as the apologetical discourse used by the journalists and the newsworthiness of the event.

The stigma related to mental health continues to be present in online newspapers, where mental diseases are often used metaphorically to refer to entities or situations outside the clinical of mental health. This project explores the implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing techniques for the task of automatically classifying stigmatizing articles with references to the mental disorders of schizophrenia and psychosis. This work is implemented in Portuguese online news articles, collected from the Arquivo.pt repository, a public repository of archived Portuguese web pages, and can be adapted to other languages or similar problems. Nine machine and deep learning algorithms were implemented, most of them yielding results with a precision above 90%. In addition, the automatic detection of articles topics was also performed, through topic modeling with the top2vec model, which allowed concluding that the stigmatization of mental health occurs, essentially, in Economics and Politics related news. The results confirm the existence of stigma in Portuguese newspapers (52% of the 978 articles collected) and the effectiveness of the use of Artificial Intelligence models to detect it. Additionally, a set of 978 articles collected and manually classified with the classes [“stigmatizing”, “literal”] is obtained.KeywordsArtificial IntelligenceDeep learningMachine learningNatural Language ProcessingNewspapersText classificationTopic modeling

ABSTRACT: The main aim of this paper is to examine how the recent themata developments in Social Representations Theory can be linked with the classical process involved in the construction of social representations—anchoring—, as well as with the communicative modalities that are part of the theory since its inception. This was done through a study of the representation of GMOs in the Portuguese press, taken as an opportunity for addressing the issues related to the role played by old categories in rendering new meanings and in establishing new categories.A further objective of the study, more applied in nature, was to explore whether the central characteristics of the representations of biotechnology in European countries were also present in Portugal.All articles that included the expressions Genetically Modified/Genetic Modification/Manipulation or Transgenics, were collected, in five Portuguese newspapers, during the years of 1999, 2000 and 2001. Content analysis of the 239 articles collected showed that their thematical organisation re‐constitutes the Red/Green dichotomy found in most European countries. The Red/health discussion is structured around such themata as health/disease, risk/safety, benefits/problems, and anchors in categories like science and progress. The nature/culture opposition emerges, in turn, in the Green/food discussion, which anchors on categories like ideology and employs Propaganda as a communicative modality—a set of indicators configuring a more polemic debate. The conclusions discuss the relevance of linking themata with anchoring and the importance of devising more fine‐grained tools for the analysis of Diffusion.

Pattern mining derives from the need of discovering hidden knowledge in very large amounts of data, regardless of the form in which it is presented. When it comes to Natural Language Processing (NLP), it arose along the humans’ necessity of being understood by computers. In this paper we present an exploratory approach that aims at bringing together the best of both worlds. Our goal is to discover patterns in linguistically processed texts, through the usage of NLP state-of-the-art tools and traditional pattern mining algorithms.Articles from a Portuguese newspaper are the input of a series of tests described in this paper. First, they are processed by an NLP chain, which performs a deep linguistic analysis of text; afterwards, pattern mining algorithms Apriori and GenPrefixSpan are used. Results showed the applicability of sequential pattern mining techniques in textual structured data, and also provided several evidences about the structure of the language.KeywordsAssociation RuleNatural Language ProcessingMinimum SupportPattern MiningParse TreeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

The Internet has created new “dialogical spaces” (Oblak, 2005) where issues of common concern can be discussed, serving to democratize the public sphere. As a potential deliberative section and a civic forum, readers’ comments in newspapers’ websites constitute a locus for public debate and ideas exchange provided by the mainstream media. As a case study, this article intends to assess the quality of audience participation in online news sites, by analysing the readers’ comments in the news about the Brazilian presidential campaign (September-November 2010) in the online versions of two Portuguese newspapers.

10 - The media coverage of climate change in Portugal