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Sonia Virginia Moreira

Sonia Virginia Moreira
  • PhD, Communication Sciences
  • Professor at State University of Rio de Janeiro

Professor and researcher - State University of Rio de Janeiro

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Current institution
State University of Rio de Janeiro
Current position
  • Professor
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August 1986 - present
State University of Rio de Janeiro
Position
  • Professor
Education
March 1995 - November 1999
University of São Paulo
Field of study
  • Communication Sciences

Publications

Publications (67)
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Este artigo analisa o processo de inclusão-exclusão digital considerando as condições de infraestrutura existentes nas escolas públicas dos nove estados que compõem a região da Amazônia Legal, área geográfica com mais de 5 milhões de quilômetros quadrados, que correspondem a 61% do território brasileiro e abrange 772 municípios (IBGE, 2021). O argu...
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Media capture by the state has steadily advanced in Brazil over time and employs a number of different political strategies. The system that regulates the media still bears the marks of the country’s two dictatorial periods in the twentieth century: the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas and his Estado Novo regime (1937–1945) and the military dictators...
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Dezessete emissoras de rádio comunitárias localizadas em 15 cidades pequenas no entorno de Imperatriz, a segunda cidade mais populosa do estado do Maranhão, são o objeto desta análise. As rádios comunitárias predominam na região Nordeste e, em muitos casos, são a única referência de mídia para a comunidade, o que dá a dimensão dos efeitos da sua pr...
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Especialista e mestre em Jornalismo com intensa experiência editorial e de gestão de mídia, Penny Abernathy tornou-se referência entre os pesquisadores brasileiros da área ao desenvolver o conceito de “desertos de notícias”. Os relatórios liderados por Abernathy entre 2016-2020 no Centro de Inovação e Sustentabilidade em Mídia Local da Universidade...
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A partir dos anos 2000, o desenvolvimento da produção audiovisual independente e o surgimento de plataformas de streaming resultaram em novas práticas de produção e de consumo televisivo. Com o objetivo de compreender o mercado televisivo brasileiro a partir dessas mudanças, realizamos um levantamento para localizar ocorrências seguindo três eixos:...
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Resumo Este artigo se propõe a verificar a existência ou inexistência de produção local de conteúdo informativo em emissoras de rádio e em retransmissoras de rádio e TV no universo dos 32 municípios brasileiros de IDHM Muito Baixo localizados nas regiões Norte e Nordeste. A abordagem desses municípios emprega conceitos de mídia local e de jornalism...
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Este artigo analisa a expansão dos cursos de Jornalismo em instituições públicas e privadas de ensino superior e a distribuição geográfica das redes que se estabelecem entre os cursos em diferentes dimensões urbanas. Fundamenta-se em dados do Ministério da Educação e no conceito de hierarquia das cidades do IBGE para tratar das inserções regionais...
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There is a growing recognition that journalists are exposed to dangerous or hazardous working conditions in many places worldwide. These conditions are suggested to be linked to greater macro-related structural risks, including changes to the political economy of news that increase labor precarity, cultural and identity-based risks from oppressive...
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EN. There is a growing recognition that journalists are exposed to dangerous or hazardous working conditions in many places worldwide. These conditions are suggested to be linked to greater macro-related structural risks, including changes to the political economy of news that increase labor precarity, cultural and identity-based risks from oppress...
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Almost 15 years ago, during a period when the failures of neoliberal democracy had not yet fragmented the region into a mosaic of media systems cleaved by political polarization, Hughes and Lawson (2005) summarized what they considered to be the barriers to the strengthening and sustainability of a more investigative, independent and citizen-focuse...
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Este artigo traz algumas percepções resultantes do trabalho de campo de pesquisa em andamento sobre a cobertura, pela mídia de grande porte, de assuntos relativos a imigrantes e refugiados no Brasil. Parte do entendimento de que o jornalismo disputa significados na interpretação da realidade e opera o afastamento das vozes dissidentes do consenso d...
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O livro dos 10 anos do grupo de pesquisa Geografias da Comunicação na Intercom é uma amostra dos quase 200 artigos produzidos entre 2009-2018 pelos investigadores do campo. O volume dá visibilidade ao percurso da pesquisa brasileira sobre as geografias da comunicação ao longo desse período em que os pesquisadores se interessaram majoritariamente po...
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Há quase 15 anos, no período em que as rupturas da democracia neoliberal ainda não haviam fragmentado a região em um mosaico de sistemas midiáticos separados pela polarização política, Hughes e Lawson (2005) resumiram o que consideravam como obstáculos para o fortalecimento e a sustentabilidade da produção profissional de um jornalismo investigati...
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Este artigo parte da matriz geográfica de espaço e território de Santos & Silveira (2003) para analisar a existência do conjunto de mídia e telecomunicações existente em 32 municípios com índices de desenvolvimento muito baixo, situados nas regiões Norte e Nordeste. Usa como referência o Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal (IDHM), com dados...
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The Report of the Worlds of Journalism Study Latin American and Caribbean network is ready. The overview of topics of concern to Journalism and Journalism Studies in the region is a valuable joint contribution, as are the individual analyses of each country which are the work of each country coordinator or team. · Feel free to download and share.
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In this chapter we ask the basic but fundamental question: Who are the journalists? Our aim is to identify key insights into gender distribution, journalists’ ages and levels of experience, their education, work environment and employment conditions.
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In this chapter we ask the basic but fundamental question: Who are the journalists? Our aim is to identify key insights into gender distribution, journalists’ ages and levels of experience, their education, work environment and employment conditions. In this book we ask how do journalists around the world view their roles and responsibilities in s...
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This special edition of Brazilian Journalism Research hopes to bring more recognition to journalists by assembling a collection of articles that deal specifically with journalists who work in newsrooms and the journalistic practices from different organizational and institutional environments. In that regard, the dossier also provides writers from...
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Journalism studies that focused mainly on the profession and its routines within the organizational structure of communication mediums, have been the most frequent points of convergence in academic analyses. However, the journalist, as a central agent in the journalistic process, has been overlooked for a long time. This special edition of Brazilia...
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The articles that are part of this volume were selected among authors who attended the binational meetings of the Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies over a period of ten years and six colloquia, as follows: in 2004 at the University of Texas at Austin; in 2005 at the State University of Rio de Janeiro; in 2008 at Tulane University in New...
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A ideia de uma crise do rádio consolidou-se no imaginário coletivo nas últimas décadas, a despeito de não haver ancoragem na realidade. Se muitas rádios tradicionais AM e FM saem do ar, vendidas a igrejas eletrônicas ou novos grupos empresariais (MOREIRA, 1998; RIBEIRO, ABREU e KISCHINHEVSKY, 2011), multiplica-se a oferta de conteúdos no contexto d...
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Entrevista com o professor Mauro Rêgo Sá Costa para o dossiê Rádio nas Bordas
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This chapter draws on survey data collected in the international Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS)1, with probabilistic samples of journalists in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico. Through descriptive and multivariate tests, we present the most complete panorama to date of contemporar...
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El periodismo iberoamericano a lo largo de las últimas cinco décadas ha afianzado su marco identitario, claramente diferenciado de un tipo de periodismo estándar procedente del hemisferio norte, fundamentalmente de Europa y Estados Unidos, asimilado hasta hoy día como modelo o prototipo ideal. Este giro paradójico, afianzador de la conciencia de un...
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Journalism education started in Brazil in 1947. Today, it comes under the field of Social Communication, along with Advertising, Public Relations, Film, and Radio & TV. For almost 40 years, from 1970 to 2009, a journalism diploma was mandatory to work in a newsroom. As part of the field of Applied Social Sciences, journalism remains popular among t...
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La descripción del perfil laboral y los roles profesionales de los periodistas de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Co-lombia, Ecuador, El Salvador y México aporta evidencias de ciertas tendencias que ayudan a entender en qué consiste ser periodista en América Latina. Dentro del marco del proyecto Worlds of Journalism Studies (WJS). Este estudio de la situ...
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Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have in various social institutions using data from the p...
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Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have in various social institutions using data from the p...
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Little comparative research has been studied in South America the relationship between the governments and journalists, even fewer who have done it based on the context and its influences. Nowadays, this decontextualized perspective is being much criticized because journalism researchers in this region, still today, are based on the standards and n...
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This paper analyses the relationship between the education and training of journalists and their perception of professional autonomy in Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador; our study is based on results from the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) in South America. Specifically, we analyze the data of 1111 surveys carried out in this project related to the...
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Jornalismo e prática discursiva
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O livro traz uma ampla análise do mercado de mídia feita por acadêmicos portugueses e brasileiros e é de particular importância porque ajuda a preencher uma lacuna existente no Brasil relacionada ao estudo da microeconomia e gestão de mídia. Interessante para profissionais, empresários e estudiosos de mídia e indústrias criativas, bem como para pes...
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This study aims to gauge if there is a ‘de-territorialized’ Portuguese speaking journalistic community or whether diverse professional self-perceptions prevail amongst Portuguese and Brazilian counterparts. Based upon an extensive and manifold comparative analysis of 200 questionnaires – comprising the ‘journalism cultures’, their trust on social i...
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Este artigo tem como objetivo avaliar se existe uma comunidade jornalística de língua portuguesa “desterritorializada” ou se autopercepções profissionais distintas prevalecem entre jornalistas portugueses e brasileiros. Com base em uma extensa análise comparada de 200 questionários – incluindo questões sobre as culturas do jornalismo, a confiança n...
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Based on interviews with 300 journalists in Chile, Brazil and Mexico, this article describes similarities and differences in their professional cultures. Two competing conceptual explanations are tested: the dominance of political structures, levels of press freedom and the size and concentration of media ownership vs the predominance of political...
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Seen as a whole, Brazilian radio allows for the identification of six distinct kinds of use: commercial, educational, cultural, communitarian, religious, and political. Subsequent to the educational and cultural broadcasting stations of the 1920s, commercial radios are established as the standard, as from the 1930s. During the trajectory of 9 decad...
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This article reports key findings from a comparative survey of the role perceptions, epistemological orientations and ethical views of 1800 journalists from 18 countries. The results show that detachment, non-involvement, providing political information and monitoring the government are considered essential journalistic functions around the globe....
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Surveying 1,700 journalists from seventeen countries, this study investigates perceived influences on news work. Analysis reveals a dimensional structure of six distinct domains—political, economic, organizational, professional, and procedural influences, as well as reference groups. Across countries, these six dimensions build up a hierarchical st...
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The selection of Brazilian media organizations as part of the Worlds of Journalisms Project, an international comparative study of journalism and journalistic routines, offers contemporary data for analysis of that country's media. This involves historical aspects of national and regional media, media ownership, and key regulation aspects, as well...
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The dependence of Brazilian press on the international news agencies suggests that, despite the evolution of technology which now facilitates the access to information, there has been no advance in the basic issues that motivated the debate on the equilibrium necessary in the worldwide circulation of information. The analysis of the journalistic co...
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The first part of this article is a cross section analysis of Brazilian communication research produced by postgraduate level (doctor and master programs) of the Journalism Department, School of Communication and Art (ECA) of the São Paulo State University (USP), Brazil, between 1989 and the beginning of 2004. ECA/USP is one of the most ancient and...
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O jornalismo de rádio, assim como parte significativa da história do rádio no Brasil, ainda é um segmento que pode render pesquisas e estudos. Neste texto são resgatados pensamentos e conceitos do jornalismo de rádio elaborados por dois profissionais ligados à mídia: o locutor Heron Domingues, idealizador da primeira equipe de radiojornalismo no Pa...
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Se na hora dos telejornais o espectador der um zap pelos vários canais, ouvirá as mesmas notícias e as mesmas imagens internacionais. Por quê? São as mesmas agências de notícias a suprir o noticiário televisivo.
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A leitura da mensagem de Nikola Tesla para a edição comemorativa da revista Electrical World and Engineer em 1904 – reproduzido no livro As fantásticas invenções de Nikola Tesla, reunião de textos por David Hatcher Childress, publicado no Brasil pela Madras Editora – é um mergulho inesperado no mundo de surpresas, angústias e alegrias d e um cienti...

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