Social representations of gypsies peoples in the press vehicles of the State of Goiás (2018-2022)

Abstract

In this research, we analyze how the press vehicles build representations about gypsies in the State of Goiás. For the development of the discussions and reflections shared in this article, we carried out empirical research, which involved accessing, reading and analyzing criminal reports, available on the Internet and selected from the results found on the Google platform, which mention and highlight the involvement of Gypsy people in the news, limited to the period from 2018 to 2022. We interspersed this investigation with searches and analysis of the criminal cases found and related to the cases reported in the press. This is anthropologically-inspired research, which takes into account bibliographical references in the field of critical criminology and media studies, in order to understand the networks of meanings that emerge from the journalistic texts present on the world wide web, since they produce meanings about gypsy existence and at the same time about the role of the criminal justice system in the face of crimes and the supposed subjects involved, who are racialized by the communication channels observed.