Midiatização e sentidos coloniais e decoloniais sobre a Zona Franca de Manaus nos discursos jornalísticos

Abstract

Since the 1970s, the electronics sector of the Industrial Pole and Manaus, located in the Manaus Free Trade Zone, has contributed to the growth of the local and national media communication environment, through the production and distribution of electronics that are fundamental to the media industry in Brazil, such as TV sets, radios, cell phones, video cameras, cameras, stereos, recorders and computers. Distant from the national decision-making centers, as responsible for providing part of the production/reception infrastructure apparatus of the Brazilian media communication system, the economic development model in operation in the Western Amazon states is constantly on the agenda in Brazilian journalistic vehicles. In this thesis, journalistic coverage of the ZFM in newspapers and magazines with national and local circulation is investigated, demonstrating which were the discursive trainers used from the decolonial perspective. Its secondary objectives are: 1) Relate the electro-electronic sector of the ZFM with the waves of mediatization; 2) Identify textual and discursive evidence of the existence of theoretical and historical foundations related to decolonial thinking; 3) Understand how the historical moments of the ZFM were discursively constructed by national and local printed periodicals; 4) Check the construction of the ZFM's media identity. The corpus of this research is constituted by 109 discursive sequences cut from 93 texts, and that insert in five subject positions, extracted from the newspapers O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de São Paulo, Jornal do Commercio-AM, with editions that circulated in the years 1957, 1967, 1970, 1984, 1986, 1988, 2003, 2014 and 2017. The period was chosen based on the definition of nine historical moments of the ZFM (creation, regulation, first industry project in the electronics sector, the four extensions and the 50th anniversary of the regulation). Such subject positions are encompassed in two Discursive Formations that made it possible to understand the discursive web about the ZFM, which are: (FD1) ZFM leads the Amazon to progress and (FD2) ZFM has new challenges. There is a significant predominance of (FD1), which shows that the meanings most reiterated by the newspapers and magazines analyzed concern difficult logistics, regulation and the generation of development and modernity in the Amazon region.