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- Democracy and the European construction: The role of the Portuguese newspapers in the latest electoral campaign to the European parliament (2019)Publication . Centeno, Maria João; Simões-Ferreira, Isabel; Gomes, Pedro MarquesThe 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections were held against a ‘rising tide’ of euroscepticism that seems to jeopardise the very process of European construction. When asked about the reasons for not voting in the forthcoming elections for the EP, 46% of Portuguese citizens, according to data provided by the Eurobarometer (2018), answered that “they didn’t know enough about the role of the EU”, a percentage clearly above from the average of other European Union (EU) Member States (34%). Discussing the process of people’s engagement or disengagement with the EU also entails, apart from taking into account a whole range of material aspects, analysing the crucial role news media have to play in this process. They can either help citizens understand Europe and enhance grassroots democratic participation across EU Member States or use EU elections as a pretext to speak about their own nation and politics. As maintained by Norman Fairclough, social and material structures are shaped by discourse, which not only reflects or represents society but also “helps to constitute (and change) knowledge and its objects, social relations and social identity” (1992: 8). Thus the aim of this paper, following the lens of critical discourse analysis, is to investigate the Portuguese press coverage of the latest European elections made both by dailies (Correio da Manhã, Público, Jornal de Notícias and Jornal I) and weeklies (Expresso, Diário de Notícias and Sol) between 13-27 May 2019 (the period that covers the electoral campaign and its immediate aftermath). The focus will be mainly put upon the main issues and topics of the electoral campaign, their degrees of salience, visibility of European and national leaders / actors, news framings and pragmatics so as to assess the degree of europeanization of the press coverage and its wider implications for the process of European integration and democratic participation.
- “Winners” and “Defeated”: the photojournalistic narrative of the Coup of 25 november 1975Publication . Mata, Maria J.; Cardoso, CarlaThis paper intends to show how the images published in the press “tell” the coup of 25 November 1975, an event that ends a period of struggle (called PREC - Revolutionary Period in Progress) between the different political forces that tried to conquer power after the 25 April 1974 revolution.Shortly after the “Carnation Revolution”, occurred coups and countercoups, carried out by both radical and moderate political and military forces, which differed on the democratic model to be adopted. The historical narrative on the military coup of 25 November 1975 points to the culmination of this divisive process, with the defeat of the extreme left forces allowing the clarification of the political model and the transfer of the military power to the civil domain.To what extent and how was this “victory/defeat” narrative adopted by journalism to tell the events? What, who and how it is “shown”? Starting from this exploratory questions, we proceed to the frame analysis of the photographs published in three titles of daily/non daily press on the subject, from a multimodal perspective.The technical images, due to its potential of belief associated to their illustrative and witnessing ontology, are a fertile medium for the construction of meanings that fits the discourse of journalism and that has gained, in the post- revolution period, a progressive importance in the newspapers, due to the openness to the exterior and the professional recognition of photojournalists.Thus, this analysis has, as its backdrop, the conditions of the exercise of journalism at the time, as the newspapers were the stage and the mirror of the political and ideological struggle waged in the period preceding the coup and had incorporated its consequences.