Os recursos geoespaciais nas reportagens de dados no jornalismo ambiental independente do website InfoAmazonia.

Abstract

In the current historical context, in which the geographic medium is largely instrumentalized, information and communication technologies mediate social relations. This has also transformed the process of information gathering and dissemination, since data, maps, and satellite images began to be used in the production of reports. Thus, new forms of news emerged, such as geojournalism, which is the subject of this research. This work of Journalism course conclusion sought to understand how the geospatial resources are presented in data reports produced by the independent environmental journalism of the InfoAmazonia website. This is a qualitative research that used methodological resources such as bibliographic research and analysis of the content of five reports that make up the series Engolindo Fumaça (Swallowing the Smoke), fruit of a special project of the independent communication vehicle. The study was carried out in three stages of observation, which were concerned, respectively, with the website in general, the selected productions, and the geospatial resources used in these materials. This research is based on the understanding of the technical-scientific-informational environment, a concept created by Milton Santos. The research was also based on the ideas of authors who discussed the themes related to the research, such as digital journalism, data journalism, geo journalism, independent journalism and environmental journalism. As a result, it was identified in geojournalism the presence of characteristics of digital journalism, such as interactivity, hypertextuality, memory, personalization and multimedia. Furthermore, maps and satellite images are highlighted in the journalistic productions of InfoAmazonia and play a central role in offering content related to the understanding of environmental problems and complex scientific issues. Added to that, the geospatial resources provide an integrated vision about the facts by adding the spatial perspective. Finally, it was verified that maps and satellite images provide a differentiated navigation experience, with the potential to awaken in the reader the feeling of virtual displacement and contact with the reality in which the stories are told.