The other' of the Covid-19 pandemic

Ageism toward the elderly people in newspapers in Brazil and Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID5335111
AuthorsPricila Oliveira De Araujo (0000-0002-7941-9263, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana), Raniele Araújo De Freitas (0000-0002-9367-3639, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Eduardo Dias Duarte (0000-0001-8170-7523, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Lucy Jure Cares (0000-0002-4857-5343, Centro de Salud Familiar Dos de Septiembre, Chile), Kathleen A Rodríguez (0000-0002-0360-3865, Universidad del Desarrollo), Valeschka Guerra (0000-0003-2093-2334, Corporación Municipal de Viña del Mar, Chile), Evanilda Souza De Santana Carvalho (0000-0003-4564-0768, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana)
Year2022
Volume46
Issue134
Pages613-629
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0103-1104202213402i
OpenAlexW4295886496
SciELOS0103-11042022000300613
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

The emergence of the new coronavirus and the indication of the elderly population as a risk group led to the emergence of speeches, jokes, memes and facts indicative of ageism in social media and mass media. This article aims to analyze the expressions and implications of ageism toward the elderly reported in newspapers in Brazil and Chile in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Documentary study of news from newspapers with the greatest access in Brazil and Chile. Data collection occurred in May 2021. The selection of titles, abstracts and full text was performed by two independently and blinded researchers. The final corpus of 89 news was submitted to thematic analysis supported by the MAXQDA software, whose codification, thematization and interpretation process was based on sociological theories that explain ageism. The expressions of ageism were evidenced through images and attitudes that devalue and depreciate the life of the elderly people, positioning them as 'the other' of the pandemic, which has implications for the life, health and work of this population

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Mass media · Media studies · Newspaper · Pandemic · Pathology · Political science · Population · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Aging and Gerontology Research · Demography · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology

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