O caso Free Britney e o enquadramento jornalístico sob uma perspectiva de gênero

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the journalistic coverage of the Estadão Digital portal (belonging to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo), to understand how the #FreeBritney case received journalistic treatment, from the framing point of view. #FreeBritney movement was created by fans to ask for the release of singer Britney Spears from a regime of judicial guardianship that took away, for thirteen years, much of her civil rights. The analysis focuses on articles published in a period of time from May 2019 to November 2021, highlighting the publications that approached the case from a gender perspective, whether in the chosen language, in prominent titles or images used, leading to considering that words such as “press harassment”, “machismo” and “mental health” set the tone in the coverage. To understand the framing in practice, the research is anchored in the work of the anthropologist Erving Goffman, responsible for the systematization of the theory, the political scientist Robert Entman, creator of the famous definition of frame and the sociologist Gaye Tuchman, who incorporated the Framing into the studies of Journalism.