A percepção ambiental através do discurso jornalístico

Abstract

In the current context, where environmental issues increasingly affect our daily lives, the inclusion of the debate about the environment in television programs becomes important, since it creates an arena of public discourse for the information, knowledge and awareness of society on this issue. Thus, this work is focused on the environmental journalistic discourse and its implications for society, and it investigates if the speech used in environmental news stories is built on an interdisciplinary view of the environment. The objectives are to analyze the relation between the journalistic discourse and interdisciplinarity in environmental issues and their political implications. In order to identify devices that help in the creation or legitimization in terms of an interdisciplinary view of the environment, the critical speech analysis and the French speech analysis were used. The news stories analyzed were the most viewed during the month of May 2014 during the Globo Ecology program, which is aired by the open channel Globo Television Network. This study has highlighted part of the building process of the images of ecology-related terms, such as sustainability, forests and green economy. From the flaws in the program Globo Ecology speech, I have concluded that the environmental journalism does not address the complexity of the environment in an interdisciplinary perspective, which has political implications in terms of exercising an active and effectively critical citizenship when it comes to the contemporary environmental issues.