The virtual victim and his otherness: the image of the criminal on the crime news
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2006.30.3377Keywords:
Communication, risk, virtual victimAbstract
This article conceptualizes the contemporary form of alterity production based on the analysis of the change in the image of the criminal in the crime report of the newspaper O Globo between the years 1983 and 2001. Considering that a significant part of the construction of alterity depends on the practices of attribution of responsibility , We propose that the change of image of the criminal is associated with the passage from norm to risk as the basic concept from which individuals in Western culture think the power of human action.Downloads
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