Local identity and urban imaginary in TV news: the 159 years of Juiz de Fora in the MGTV

Abstract

It starts here with the hypothesis that the local TV journalism, for its scope and everyday acts such as (re) producer of narratives privileged constituents of urban imagination of a city on itself, producing identity effects. This article aims to assess how it happens in a particular case, through the analysis of the emphases discursive at MGTV 1st and 2nd edition of TV Panorama (affiliated Rede Globo), the coverage of the commemoration of 159 years in the municipality of Juiz de Fora . It discusses what was the effect the representation of the city special commemorative series. It is assumed that identities are not essential or natural phenomena, but rather symbolic and discursive constructions to generate the feeling of belonging - which carries the media to be vocalized these preferred discourses.