Andressa Kniess

Universidade Federal do Paraná | UFPR · Department of Social Sciences

Despite the growing scholarship concerning mis-and disinformation, research has yet to assess how journalism tackles conspiracy theories in settings where news organizations and media professionals have their authority questioned. Against this background, our article poses two research questions: RQ1) Who are the actors mainstream fact-checkers cov...

This article aims to examine the rhetorical strategies employed by interviewers and interviewees to understand how adversarialism unfolds in television broadcasts. While most studies to date analyze a single interview or compare how the same interviewer confronts several interviewees, we capture how different panels of interviewers address adversar...

After the end of the military dictatorship (1964–1985), electoral disputes in Brazil have been influenced by interviews with politicians. The most relevant national TV show bringing this kind of content is Roda Viva, aired since 1986 by the public broadcaster TV Cultura. Considering Roda Viva’s role, the relevance of its debates throughout the 2018...

The article aims to capture the diversity of emerging practices in fact-checking by exploring, on the one side, journalists' self-perception of the watchdog role they believe to perform and, on the other, the effective occurrence of such a role in different media systems. Data regarding the perception of the watchdog role stem from the Worlds of Jo...

After the end of the military dictatorship (1964–1985), electoral disputes in Brazil have been influenced by interviews with politicians. The most relevant national TV show bringing this kind of content is Roda Viva, aired since 1986 by the public broadcaster TV Cultura. Considering Roda Viva’s role, the relevance of its debates throughout the 2018...

A popularização das ferramentas digitais proporcionou aos cidadãos novas formas de participação política. Entretanto, uma das preocupações da literatura é de que as manifestações enviadas pelos cidadãos através da internet não sejam devidamente consideradas pelos agentes públicos durante o processo decisório. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste artigo é...

O artigo investiga se, e de que forma, a Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) aborda a ideia de transparência em seus perfis de redes sociais. Três questões orientam a análise: Como o tema da transparência pública é mobilizado pela CGU no Facebook e no Twitter? Uma vez que Facebook e Twitter dispõem de estruturas e usuários distintos, que estratégias...

Em 2016, o então presidente Michel Temer extinguiu a Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) e a substituiu pelo Ministério de Transparência, Fiscalização e Controle. Especialistas criticaram a alteração, apontando que a nova configuração enfraquecia o órgão fiscalizador. Levando em conta esse cenário, este artigo busca verificar como os editoriais de O...

The objective of this article is to analyze the content of public communications in situations of political crisis. We aim to establish whether and to what extent there was partisan instrumentalization of the digital social media channels administered by State institutions during the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. We analyzed all posts published be...

This article presents a study of presidential candidates’ strategies in Brazilian elections’ debates of 2018, considering the historical relevance of this object of study for the majority disputes in Brazil. The symbolic aspects of candidates’ participation were analyzed, observing three main characteristics: discursive strategies, strategy focus a...

This article has three main objectives: to investigate which journalistic institutions are most used by representatives to consume information; verify the degree of confidence that representatives have in the media; and to examine the degree of efficiency that deputies attribute to different media platforms regarding self-promotion; based on the re...

O artigo propõe três objetivos: investigar quais instituições jornalísticas são mais utilizadas por parlamentares com a finalidade de consumir informações; verificar o grau de confiança que os representantes relatam depositar nos media; e examinar o grau de eficiência que deputados atribuem a diferentes plataformas midiáticas com vistas à autopromo...

El artículo tiene tres objetivos: investigar cuales instituciones periodísticas son utilizadas por diputados para consumir informaciones; verificar el grado de confianza de los representantes en los medios; y analizar el grado de eficiencia que los diputados asignan a diferentes medios como herramientas de autopromoción. Los datos son provenientes...

After recognizing different approaches to the term "public opinion"throughout the twentieth century, the article examines how the editorials of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo (OESP) mobilize the concept at stake. Based on the premise that editorials highlight the role of newspapers as political agents, it is essential to investigate whether, an...

O presente artigo analisa as estratégias de mensagens utilizadas pelos candidatos mais bem votados à prefeitura de Curitiba em 2016, Rafael Greca (PMN), Ney Leprevost (PSD) e Gustavo Fruet (PDT) no Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral (HGPE), durante o primeiro turno da campanha. As variáveis analisadas são: apelo, retórica, linguagem, apelo a...