A luz, as sombras e a procura da verdade. Os média e a construção de uma realidade equívoca e totalizante.

Authors

  • Vítor de Sousa CECS-Communication and Society Research Centre (University of Minho)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS1102017979

Keywords:

Luz, Trevas, Verdade, Mentira, Média, Construção social da realidade

Abstract

A luz, associada à ideia de verdade, realça o real que vive dela e a reflete em tons diferenciados. Platão (“Alegoria da caverna”) observava que a caverna correspondia ao mundo do visível e o sol ao fogo cuja luz se projetava dentro dela. Para Nietzsche ‘verdade’ era um ponto de vista, sendo que Umberto Eco prefere as mentiras (Eco, 2015). José Saramago (“Ensaio sobre a cegueira”) utiliza inúmeras metáforas para explicar como é que as pessoas vão cegando no mundo contemporâneo. Existem, por conseguinte, várias realidades, todas elas socialmente construídas (Berger & Luckmann, 1999). A anterior visão do mundo, demasiado primária, quando não excluía Deus, interpretava as noções de “Céu” e “Inferno” como consequências das próprias ações humanas (Mattoso, 2012). O certo é que, apesar da anunciada morte de Deus, ainda hoje a incerteza e o vazio reativam antigas e novas espiritualidades (Lipovetsky, 2007). O que significa então, hoje, a verdade? Será que a luz ilumina a realidade? A luminosidade em excesso não pode provocar cegueira? Há um mundo paralelo criado pela dissimulação da luz? O dos média, por exemplo, que deixam fora do ‘agenda setting’ e do ‘framing’, a maior parte da realidade? São estas reflexões que tentarei desenvolver neste artigo.

Author Biography

Vítor de Sousa, CECS-Communication and Society Research Centre (University of Minho)

Vítor de Sousa (November 12th 1967) - Since 2009: Manager of CSRC- Communication and Society Research Center (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal). - PhD in Communication Sciences (Culture Theory), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal – 'Aprovado por unanimidade, Muito Bom' (“From ‘portugalidade’ to Lusophonie”, with guidance from PhD Moisés de Lemos Martins). - 2011 - Investigator-collaborator of CSRC (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal). - 2011 - Master in Communication Sciences (Information and Journalism), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (thesis: “The media education in initial teacher training”, with guidance from PhD Manuel Pinto) [17/20] - 2009 - Bachelor in Communication Sciences (Information and Journalism), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal [16/20] - 1997-2005, Press Assessor (Câmara Municipal de Felgueiras). - 1986-1997, Journalist: 1992-97 – Jornal Público, colaborador 1994/96 – Rádio Clube de Penafiel, chefe de redacção 1992/94 – Rádio Terra Verde, chefe de redacção 1990/92 – Rádio Clube de Penafiel 1987/88 – Jornal “Repórter do Marão” 1986 – Rádio Universitária do Porto 1986/87 – Rádio Activa do Vale do Sousa

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Published

2017-03-31

How to Cite

Sousa, V. de. (2017). A luz, as sombras e a procura da verdade. Os média e a construção de uma realidade equívoca e totalizante. Observatorio (OBS*), 11(1). https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS1102017979

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

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