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The text presents reflections on the mediatization pro- cess and its implications for the newsworthiness of the Brazilian periphery. The study of the newsworthiness of peripheral spaces, notably the international frontier, when taken beyond the geopo- litical aspect or the primacy of the State, allows bringing elements that aid in the understanding...
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... sounds like an ordinary action changes figure when we realize that the teenager reports the bombings that hit the city where he lives, as well as the imminence of death that mixes in his daily life. Like other boys, from other closed regimes, Najem (Figure 05) makes use of media knowledge constituted through the cultural industry (entertainment and journalism), therefore media logics, to produce what Castells (2016) calls an auto-broadcast 9 . There are some operations there: a) the boy produces audiovisuals from a cell phone camera, which reveals access to technology and the media space; b) his images allow him to ascend to the traditional media when he turns himself into a journalistic agenda, not only because of the content he shows, but because he uses the interactive space that is Twitter to make an inaccessible reality visible; c) Najem's imagery productions follow the precepts of journalism, insofar as they bring the background, the passage, and the enunciation in action, presented by the markers "what you are seeing now is another bombardment", but at the same time, there is hybridization with the amateur discourse since he places himself not as someone who distantly observes but as someone who is immersed, and, therefore, authorized to transform into image what cannot be seen; d) his posts create a space for interactions, but they are the result of the difference in meaning, since there are comments that support the pain and others that question the misuse of Photoshop, therefore, the technical point of view; and e) the adolescent becomes an issue for communication vehicles such as CNN and The New York Times, among others, that reach the teenager through the replications of his written and narrated posts in English, that is, not made for Syrians, but to catapult the images into circulation. ...
