Abstract
This chapter examines the visible nation, that is, the version of Brazil produced by different actors across various types of media. By looking at media coverage of the June Journeys, the chapter shows how the demonstrations were not only driven by diverse and sometimes contradictory agendas, but they were also understood, framed and communicated differently by the State, the national media, alternative media and foreign news organisations. The visible nation is therefore inherently ambiguous and unstable, constructed and shown in and through contested and interconnected discourses and representations. Arguments about a total fragmentation of the mediated national imagination are nonetheless difficult to sustain. Throughout the June Journeys, the different actors not only perpetuated the nation as form, but they also continued to congregate around particular contents from time to time.
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Jiménez-Martínez, C. (2020). The Visible Nation: The Media Coverage of the June Journeys. In: Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil’s 2013 Protests. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38238-4_4
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