The decline of the ‘Soccer-Nation’
Journalism, soccer and national identity in the 2002 World Cup
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12676563 |
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| Authors | Ronaldo Helal, Ronaldo George Helal (0000-0002-7688-3925, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author), Antonio Jorge Gonçalves Soares (0000-0001-7769-9268, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author), Antonio Jorge Soares |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 132-146 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soccer and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-0970 • E-ISSN: 1743-9590 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14660970.2013.854582 |
| OpenAlex | W2069528050 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay analyses the media narrative in the coverage of the Brazilian team during the 2002 World Cup. The corpus of our work is concentrated on the sports supplements of Jornal do Brasil during the 2002 World Cup from two days before the event until two days after its end, reaching the total of 32 supplements. We focus on the hypothesis that the qualification ‘Brazil: the soccer country’, usually even more intense and singular during this worldwide event, has been decreasing and the journalistic narratives about the Brazilian soccer team do not approach soccer homogeneously as a metonym for the nation. The reflection about the role of the sports press as cultural builder is fundamental to observe how newspapers confirm and construct mythologies and identitary discourses, in spite of the journalistic objectivity, one of the pillars of the profession
Art · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Mythology · Narrative · National identity · Newspaper · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Physical Education and Sports Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
| Highly cited | No |
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