Abstract
This concluding chapter summarises the main arguments of this book. The examination of the June Journeys throws into sharp relief the profound transformation of mediated nationhood in a digital, transnational and difficult to control media environment, whilst acknowledging the continuing influence of ‘old’ media and their adaptation to the opportunities and challenges of digital technologies. Although the spread of digital media has increased the complexity of the media environment, facilitating more actors to take part in shaping images of the nation, this environment is highly restricted and unequal. Power imbalances between actors remain, not only within the nation, but also between nationals and individuals and organisations from the West. The chapter also argues that accounts of the nation are highly reactive, with actors continuously contesting what has been shown previously. This state of never-ending reaction makes images of nation particularly fleeting. Such ephemerality runs the risk of making visible the most superficial aspects of the protests, emptying them of their meanings as well as masking the reasons that drove people on to the streets during those surprising and unpredictable weeks of June 2013.
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Jiménez-Martínez, C. (2020). Conclusion: Beyond the Visible, Beyond 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_7
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