Analysis of Magazine Covers

Use of Image in Environmental Awareness

Abstract

Considered a hybrid genre, the magazine cover allows the development of the capacity to analyze information that is explicit and implicit, contributing to the construction of different knowledge and to the expansion of the interpretation of multimodal texts. In this way, magazine covers are an interesting tool for the development of critical and interpretive capacity for textual and visual elements. Interpretation is a fundamental skill for all areas of knowledge, having a significant application in the natural sciences where the visual resource is very important for understanding. Within this perspective, the present class report had as its founding question How can the analysis of magazine covers help to raise awareness of the theme of environmental impacts in high school students? The objective of this class was to exercise the analysis of freedom of expression based on media products; Analyze the target audience and the means of disseminating reports; reflect and understand the magazine cover as a textual genre linked to journalism; understand the use of different expressive resources in texts in the journalistic sphere; to identify the importance of the elements that make up the magazine cover as significant parts for the textual construction. An integrated class was held between the components of Biology and Portuguese Language, making use of the interrelationships between the analysis and interpretation of magazine covers, media dissemination of environmental impacts and the evolution of the animals’ visual system. In order to get a better understanding of the contents worked in the classroom.