XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Violence against Journalists as Historical Authoritarian Legacy: Evidences from Brazil

• In Event: Coup d'état 60 years later: The Authoritarian Legacy and Current Conflicts on Freedom of Expression

Abstract

This article focuses on the relationship between media systems and political context. The research question is: how does violence against journalists is related to the quality of democracy in Latin America and in Brazil? The research design articulates the concepts of media opening and authoritarian legacy, through a methodology that combines statistical techniques with case studies. The text is structured in three stages: (i) theoretical-conceptual debate on media opening and its barriers, with reference to the idea of authoritarian legacy; (ii) descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing; (iii) Brazil as case study. The results: the greater the violence against journalists, the lower the level of quality of democracy, especially in Latin America; in the case of Brazil, the risk for communicators is significantly higher in cities with populations of less than 100,000 inhabitants and involves workers from small local vehicles, far from the structures of the so-called mainstream media.

Author

• Juliano Domingues, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (Unicap) / Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE)