Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: BEATRIZ GUIMARÃES DIAS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : BEATRIZ GUIMARÃES DIAS
DATE: 15/09/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala de Defesa do Posling - Sala 445
TITLE:

THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER: the construction of otherness regarding Venezuelan migrants and refugees in photo-essays on the G1 online portal (2017–2025)

 

KEY WORDS:

otherness; photo-essay; Venezuelan migrants and refugees; journalistic discourse.

PAGES: 78
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the discursive construction of the otherness of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in photo-essays published by the G1 online news portal between 2017 and 2025. It proceeds from the understanding that photojournalism—articulated through headlines, subheadings, and captions—is not merely a record of events but constitutes a multimodal journalistic genre that plays a role in meaning production, reading guidance, and the construction of visibility regarding the represented subjects. In this context, the research seeks to answer how—amidst the tension between the aim to inform and the aim to captivate—the visual and textual discursive strategies and the socio-discursive imaginaries mobilized by G1 shape the construction of the otherness of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Brazil. The study is primarily grounded in Patrick Charaudeau’s semiolinguistic theory—specifically the notions of speech act, communication contract, modes of discourse organization, discursive aims, socio-discursive imaginaries, and otherness—integrated with photographic studies by Boris Kossoy, Jorge Pedro Sousa, and Roland Barthes. The analysis considers the interplay between verbal and non-verbal elements, the resources of photographic language, the relationships between first and second reality and photographic time, as well as the concepts of *studium* and *punctum*. The research operates on the premise that the choices made in composing these photo-essays contribute to activating socio-discursive imaginaries and producing varying forms of visibility for Venezuelan migrants and refugees, thereby allowing for the observation of continuities, shifts, and reconfigurations in how Venezuelan migration is represented within G1’s journalistic discourse.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - ANTONIO AUGUSTO BRAICO ANDRADE
Interno - CLAUDIO HUMBERTO LESSA
Presidente - PATRICIA RODRIGUES TANURI BAPTISTA