Digital productions in the 50 years of the 1964’s coup d’état: Multimedia special issues in Brazilian journalistic websites

Abstract

The newspapers represent an inscription of the historical reality and of the collective memory of a certain space and time. This article discusses the role of digital journalistic productions in the constitution and stabilization of the history of the coup of 1964, in its 50 years, since the digitalization of memories and of journalism bring new configurations for both. The productions of the journalistic sites of two relevant vehicles in the period of the coup and of two digital natives are analysed. The productions conceive, with standard narrative, the coup and military dictatorship as something negative and pernicious for the history of the country, with some complacency to the coup agents by G1 and O Estado de S. Paulo; the exception of this one of São Paulo – in which the individual memories prevailed – , the other three specials issues bring a didactic and historical tone, with chronology, sources and references.