Jornalismo e interseccionalidade: a temática 'aborto' nos podcasts Angu de Grilo, Café da Manhã e Mamilos

Abstract

This dissertation investigated discursive approaches to abortion in three Brazilian journalistic podcasts: Angu de Grilo, Café da Manhã, and Mamilos. The research questions the tension between objectivity (Moraes; Silva, 2019) and the intersectional view in journalistic production; whether intersections of race, class, gender, and geolocation influence the agendas, approaches, and sources of these programs; and the news values that guide the production and approach of the episodes. Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2001; Van Dijk, 2008; Wodak, 2004) was conducted on abortion in the selected podcasts, a methodological procedure that dialogues with critical intersectional theorization (Akotirene, 2018; Bilge; Collins, 2021; collins, 2022; Gonzalez, 2018), as this research considers intersectionality as both practice and scientific method of analysis. The corpus consists of one episode from each podcast, totaling three analyzed programs, which interact with each other. Among the identified results, we observed that traditional objectivity in journalism often does not capture the complexity and intersectionality of social experiences, in this case, around abortion. Instead of a purely objective approach, which may ignore these nuances, an intersectional perspective allows for a richer understanding, highlighting the unique experiences of different groups and individuals. An intersectional view, for example, recognizes that the experience of abortion is deeply affected by factors such as race, class, gender, and geolocation.