O Instituto Evandro Chagas na grande imprensa do Pará: 80 anos de história

Abstract

Created on November 10th, 1936, the Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC) is a research institute linked to the Ministry of Health of Brazil, recognized nationally and internationally for its performance in the area of biological sciences, environment and tropical medicine. However, there is no research on the IEC that articulates the fields of communication and history. This study aims to analyze how the Institute is presented by the press in Pará state, specifically the newspapers Folha do Norte and O Liberal over 80 years (1936-2016), understandingjournalistic production as a result of communicational processes in each era. The sample established for the survey consists of editions of the Institute's anniversary season, from November 9th to 12th of each year during the research period. There were 15 occurrences of the IEC in Folha do Norte and 56 constituting a corpus of 71 texts analyzed. To achieve the general objective, the following specific objectives were established: a) Identify and analyze the possible meaning effects and their dominance in the journalistic coverage of the IEC; b) Identify and analyze the news frames in journalistic statements about the IEC; c) Identify and categorize the sources present in the texts of the analyzed newspapers related to the IEC. The material was analyzed qualitatively from the concepts of meaning effects, news framing and journalistic sources in the enunciation of newspapers, in dialogue with concepts of History. The perceived meaning effects gave rise to three predominant news framings in the period analyzed: The IEC as an agent of the State; The IEC and its history and The IEC in action. Regarding the sources consulted by the press to talk about the Institute, a predominance of official sources was detected; but also a character of witness from history to other sources. Analyzed from a gender perspective, less than 10% of the sources interviewed were female.