Tempo e mito no discurso jornalístico: um estudo dos enunciados sobre a Nova Era

Abstract

The New Age phenomenon, due to its development in Brazilian scenario since the 1970s, is highlighted in media outlets, especially in print journalism. This research aims to determine the construction of journalistic narrative around the everyday life of the New Age, analyzing how these two narratives concerned unite. The corpus of this study consists of the supplement Milenium, from Jornal Correio da Paraíba, and Jornal Ordem do Universo, publication of Brasilia in the 1970s. Such an empirical object will be analyzed according to the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Sociology of Everyday Life, more precisely the formist method, by the French sociologist Michel Meffesoli. In order to comprehend the shades of New Age and to hypothetically test its presence in the journalistic discourse, five thematic were created and are distributed in each of every section of this research. This research also uses the theoretical contributions that discuss about the news as myth and narrative (storytelling), studies on the myth and the New Age phenomenon under the prism of Sociology and Anthropology, as its insertion in the discussions about post-modernity.