Abstract

CASSAB, Clarice; TOLEDO, Juliana Aparecida Cantarino; FERREIRA, Kátia Oliveira  and  REZENDE, Rayssa Pinto. Representations of youth in the media and the production of fear: experience in average city in Brazil. Finisterra [online]. 2016, n.102, pp.103-120. ISSN 0430-5027.  https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis3918.

The city can be the locus of political experience. However, it is eminent that increasing fear and insecurity has restricted its use through the determination of violent places and subjects. The purpose of the paper is to discuss how images of poor youth and their suburbs are constructed by the media. The objective is to comprehend how the media contributes to the development of social representation that, besides producing a stereotyped image of those young people and their neighborhoods, restricts the possibilities of mobility throughout the city. The work is the result of research conducted at a local newspaper. Material was collected involving young people over the period between 2005 and 2011 in the city of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Then interviews were conducted with young students from the city in order to collate their choices related to places they avoid frequenting and the social representations of violence. There is a strong association between the images broadcast by the media and the choices relating to places in the city that the young students avoid

Keywords : Youth; city; media; social representation.

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