A periferia e o jornalismo policial paraense: as construções e percepções de moradores do bairro do Guamá

Abstract

From the newspaper to the social media, the presence of the violence’s speech is inherent to the population’s routine. Daily, the social ills, reflected in the struggles and pains from a part of population, are exposed by communication companies, being that part of them keep supporting a business model from popular a sensationalists news. Because of it, this dissertation has as goals to understand which is the perceptions and constructions developed by Belém’s periphery dweller about the police journalism, considering that they are the ones who occupy with remarkable frequency the protagonism in the police news, both as victim and as violence existence. To the development of this search, the Guamá neighborhood was chosen as the periphery representative, taking into consideration it’s demographic density, crime rate and the recent violence cases shown by national and international communication companies, as the “chacina do Guamá”. The research is considered relevant and unprecedented when introduce the other side of police newspaper distributed in the Belém’s Metropolitan Region. In other words, disposes to give true voice to the periphery habitants opinions’ in relation to the news noticed in the police newspaper, as well as his perception of the periphery and individuals. The work has as communication companies of police nature reference’s, the narratives constructions of the two main police newspaper of RMB: Diário do Pará e Amazônia. In the theoretical construction, a historic review of police journalism and violence was fulfilled, as well as a reflection of the existing relations inside the urban space in what refers to the periphery. Thus, three important moments are demarcated in the writing of search’s methodological procedures, in what qualitative methods are applied in the analysis, that is: at first a reflection about the peripheral ambient; then, the analysis of the bibliographic search already known about police journalism in paraense’s newspapers, seeking to deepen knowledge about this journalistic doing; lastly, the exposure of the field research’s result developed with a group of Guamá neighborhood’s dweller – constituted by young dwellers and community leaderships –, through the method named “focus group”, in order to understand the perception of this population’s portion as for the policies narratives’ present in the newspaper. Thereby, discourse about the periphery and its complex relation with the newspaper’s police books shows necessary, from the critical view to the periphery stigmas, violence spectacularization, inconsequential exposure of its habitants and in the way in which the police editorial line interfere in his experiences inside the periphery and out of it.