Memória em agenda : como o maior veículo gaúcho de mídia impressa agenda a justiça de transição no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This work aims to analyse how the theme of the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship and it’s transitional justice has been set on the Zero Hora newspaper’s agenda, number one circulation newsprint in Rio Grande do Sul and one of the major newspapers in Brazil. Initially, it situates some notions regarding the transitional justice, mainly the issue of the pursuit for the memory related to state crimes. Apart from a small illustration of the historical-political scenario in which this idea started to be developed, explores theoretical concepts that justify the need for memory policies in societies which lived this kind of atrocity, besides bringing an exposition of how Brasil relates to these concepts and with it’s own memory in regard to the civilianmilitary dictatorship and which consequences are brought by this relation. Hereafter, analyses some developments of the communication research in order to, at last, examine the agenda setting theory and the factors that exert influence on the agenda setting phenomenon, as well as some theoretical figures which work as it’s complements. After these outlines are drawn, this work goes on describing how the data collection has been proceeded and commenting the obtained results, studying the presence of the researched theme in the Zero Hora’s agenda during the period comprehended between may of 2012 and april of 2014. At the end, it is concluded that, even though there have been identified moments where the studied topic has received some attention by the newspaper, the level vis-à-vis how the theme of the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship and it’s transitional justice has been set on the agenda was, in general, low.