A Agenda dos Comentadores e a Política Nacional nos Artigos de Opinião

Authors

  • Rita Figueiras Universidade Católica Portuguesa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS222008157

Keywords:

Pundits, Op-Ed section, Politics, Democracy, Comentadores, Colunas de Opinião, Política, Democracia

Abstract

Neste artigo pretende-se reflectir sobre a agenda dos comentadores da imprensa de referência portuguesa. O nosso objectivo é identificar a importância do tema “Política Nacional” nas prioridades dos colunistas e a forma como argumentam sobre a referida temática, tendo em conta a relevância político-mediática dos colunistas e o ambiente específico português de afastamento da sociedade da vida política, patente no desinteresse pelos temas políticos, na descrença nas instituições e na elevada taxa de abstenção nos momentos eleitorais. Pundits Agenda and the National Politics in the Op-ed Section This article analysis mainstream media Pundits agenda. Our main purpose is to identify the relevance and arguments used to debate the theme “National Politics” in op-ed section. We frame the discussion in the political and mediatic prominence of Pundits in the Portuguese society and in the detachment between voters and the political system.

Author Biography

Rita Figueiras, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

PhD in Communication Sciences at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) (2007), Master in Communication, Culture and Technology at Instituto Superior das Ciências e do Trabalho (ISCTE) (2001), Degree in Social and Culture Communication at UCP (1997). Assistant Professor of the Faculdade de Ciências Humanas (FCH) of UCP since 1998. She teaches the discipline of Sociology of Communication to the course of Social and Cultural Communication and Political Communication to the Master of Communication Sciences. Her area of specialization is Political Communication and her main subjects of interest are Journalism, Public Opinion, Pundits and Quality Press. She’s a member of the Journal ‘Comunicação & Cultura’ of FCH. She´s an investigator of the Investigation Centre of Media and Journalism (CIMJ) since 1999 and of the Communication and Culture Research Centre (CECC) at UCP where she has participated in several projects on media analysis and she´s also the Coordinator of a Communication Collection books of Paulus Publishers since 2005. She has written several articles, books and book chapters as e.g. “O Comentário Político e a Política do Comentário” (Lisboa: Paulus Editora, 2008), “Os Comentadores e os Media” (Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2005), “Os Comentadores na Imprensa de Referência Portuguesa: 2000-2005” in Jornalismo e Democracia, Isabel Ferin (Coord.) (Lisboa: Paulus Editora, 2007), “Síntese: Jornalismo e Actos de Democracia” in Revista Media & Jornalismo, n.º 10 (Coimbra: MinervaCoimbra, 2007), “Os Media e a Modernidade” in GIL, I. (Coord.) (2006), Modernidade e Cruzamento de Saberes. Figuras da Modernidade. Cadernos FCH (Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora), “Lobbying e Marketing Político”, editorial do n.º2 da Revista Comunicação & Cultura, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas (Lisboa: Quimera: 2006), Colaboração no Dicionário Biográfico Parlamentar. Dir. Manuel Braga da Cruz e António Costa Pinto (Lisboa: Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Assembleia da República, vol.1 e 2, 2004), “O Espaço Opinião na imprensa de referência portuguesa: 1980-1999”, Revista Media e Jornalismo, n.º2 (Coimbra: MinervaCoimbra, 2003), “Os Opinion Makers na imprensa de referência portuguesa: 1990-1995”, Actas do I Congresso das Ciências da Comunicação (Lisboa: Vega Editora, 2002), “Opinião Pública e Espaço Público: algumas perspectivas teóricas”, Media, Política e Discriminação. Revista do Obercom, n.º5 (Lisboa: Obercom, 2002), Rita Figueiras e Verónica Policarpo, “Opinião Pública ou Opinião Publicada”. In Os Africanos na Imprensa Portuguesa: 1993-1995, ed. Isabel Ferin (Lisboa: CIDAC e Câmara Municipal da Amadora, 1996).

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Published

2008-05-26

How to Cite

Figueiras, R. (2008). A Agenda dos Comentadores e a Política Nacional nos Artigos de Opinião. Observatorio (OBS*), 2(2). https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS222008157

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2008)

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Articles

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