Communication and culture memory: the structure of tragedy in Latin-American press

Authors

  • Hertz Wendel De Camargo Universidad Federal del Paraná (UFPR)
  • Daniela Silva da Silva Universidad Estatal de Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO)
  • Vanina Belén Canavire Universidad Nacional de Jujuy (UNJu)

Keywords:

Myth, Tragedy, Latin American press, Culture memory

Abstract

Journalism, as a vehicle of mass communication, not only promotes the flow of factual information but also feeds the culture from a particular composition of reality. Journalism becomes a second reality inhabited by magical symbols and thoughts, senses from which it cannot part. There is one type of story that acknowledges in the news that relation between reality and fantasy: the one versed on emotive events marked by individual or collective death. Based in studies of storytelling, this paper analyses the elements of drama in the structure of tragedy news in Latin-American press. The selected cases are “Axel Blumberg” (Argentine, 2004); "Mércia Nakashima” (Brazil, 2010). The conclusions state that myth, present both in current journalism and greek tragedy, are cultural products that disseminate the ways of being in society. 

Author Biographies

Hertz Wendel De Camargo, Universidad Federal del Paraná (UFPR)

Dr. in Language Studies,  Universidad Estatal de Londrina (Brasil). Master in Education, Knowledge,  Language and Art, Universidad Estatal de Campinas (Brasil); Advertiser and Journalist. Professor in Universidad Federal del Paraná (UFPR) and in Universidad Estatal Del Centro Oeste (Unicentro).

Daniela Silva da Silva, Universidad Estatal de Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO)

Doctor (2010) and Master (2006) in Literature and Linguistics, PUC-RS. Bachelor in Literature, Universidad Federal de Rio Grande, FURG (2004). Professor Universidad Estatal de Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Brasil.

Vanina Belén Canavire, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy (UNJu)

Doctor in Latin American Social Studies, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina); Specialist in Communication Research  (UNC); Bachelor in Social Communication, (UNJu). Professor and Researcher,  Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina.

Published

2014-05-15

How to Cite

De Camargo, H. W., Silva da Silva, D., & Canavire, V. B. (2014). Communication and culture memory: the structure of tragedy in Latin-American press. Journal of Research of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(5), 1-19. Retrieved from //rihumso.unlam.edu.ar/index.php/humanidades/article/view/38

Issue

No. 5 (2014)

Section

Social Communication

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