“Is it just a little flu”? Producing a news-based counter account on Covid-19 discursive crises in Brazil

Figures & data

Figure 1. Necropolitics as social hierarchisation. Source: Oliveira (2018).

Table 1. News and inequality bases identified by the vehicle.

Vehicle	Analysed news	% News	Most cited categories per vehicle
Agência Brasil	15	6	Desigualdade social [social inequality] (5), Economia [Economy] (4)
Brasil247	110	47	Desigualdade [Inequality] (20), Estado Genocida [Genocidal State] (17), Pandemia [Pandemic] (13), Neoliberalismo [Neoliberalism] (11)
Folha	41	17	Necropolítica [Necropolitics] (12), Inação do governo/estado [Inaction of government/state] (8), Enfrentamento [Fighting] (7), Favela (7), Desigualdade acesso à educação [Unequal access to education] (5), desigualdade de gênero [Gender inequality] (5), desigualdade de acesso ao emprego [Unequal job opportunities] (5), informalidade [Informatility] (5)
Jornalistas Livres	14	6	Desigualdade(s) [Inequality(ies)] (6), Ricos propagam Covid-19 [Wealthy people spread Covid-19] (2)
Nexo	20	9	Pandemia [Pandemic] (5), Papel do Estado [The role of the State] (5), Desigualdade social [social inequality] (4), (Ultra)Neoliberalismo [(Ultra)neoliberalism] (4)
O Globo	35	15	Vulnerabilidade e fragilidade social [social vulnerability and fragility] (9), Desigualdade [Inequality] (9), Desigualdade social [social inequality] (7), Violência doméstica [Domestic violence] (6), Favelas e Periferias [slums and peripheries] (6), Direito ao isolamento social [The right to social distancing] (6), Acirramento da desigualdade [Worsening inequalities] (5), É só uma gripezinha [It’s just a little flu] (5), Trabalho doméstico feminino [Female housework] (5)
TOTAL	235	100

Source: Research data.

Figure 2. Analytical quadrants. Source: Authors, based on Santos (2002).

Table 2. Media, news, and categories by quadrants.

	1	2	3	4	TOTAL	%
Agência Brasil	29	27	6	16	78	7%
Brasil247	–	190	4	241	435	38%
Folha	–	86	8	146	240	21%
Jornalistas Livres	–	8	1	44	50	4%
Nexo	8	33	5	49	95	8%
O Globo	3	106	2	130	241	21%
TOTAL	40	450	26	626	1.142	100%
%	4%	39%	2%	55%	100%

Source: Research data.

Figure 3. Positioning of Inequality Bases in Analytical Quadrants. Source: Research data. Note: The size of the word in the cloud refers to its representation only in that specific quadrant and not in relation to the other quadrants. In other words, it’s an artistic representation, not a graphic in the strict sense.

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