Cientistas esplêndidos, jornalistas desnecessários: as relações de poder na produção jornalística sobre C&T na região de fronteira do RS

Abstract

In this work we started from the conceptual distinction between Scientific Communication, Scientific Dissemination and Scientific Journalism, with the intention of understanding the specifics of journalistic production about Science & Technology and its difficulties, considering the inherent power relations in media discourse. In this sense, based on the Discourse's French Analysis, as a central methodology, with the intention of understanding the affirmative purposes of texts that address the scientific field in seven newspapers in the west and south boundary region of the Rio Grande do Sul, during the year of 2010, namely: Minuano Journal, of Bagé; the Gazeta Caçapava, of Caçapava do Sul; the Ponche Verde, of Dom Pedrito; the Nossa Época, of Itaqui; the A Plateia, of Santana do Livramento; the Folha de São Borja, of São Borja; and Jornal Cidade, of Uruguaiana. The analysis was developed in three parts: 1) perceiving the characteristics that constitute the discourse in its external and internal data; 2) analyzing the discursive sequences that demonstrate the textual goals; and 3) framing the texts in journalistic formats, related to their respective journalistic genres, to a systematic organization from of similar characteristics perceived. This work showed the existence of three new journalistic formats own scientific theme: Scientific Social Columns (gender information), the Report of Curiosity and Prescriptive Information (both from the utility genre).