Ativismo de mídia no Brasil : o anarquismo na belle époque

Abstract

The production of newspapers by groups of workers in Rio de Janeiro during the first two decades of the twentieth century is the subject of this research. We analyzed the concept of the media activism within a historical context, in comparison with contemporary approaches. To study the labor movement that was based on the production of newspapers, since its origins, ideological reasons, internal divisions and major events. This movement was contextualized within historical moment that participates. Newspapers were surveyed between 1900 and 1920, based on the acquis of the National Library. Were analyzed according to the frequency, duration, ideological orientation, layout and language. It was analyzed in all the processes of appropriation of language and the rise and fall of the worker s press, considering causes and consequences. We also found additional sources of material produced by workers groups, such as open letters and posters. The data were presented quantified and compared. This was a case study, based on A Voz do Trabalhador newspaper. Through the analysis of speech, were exemplified structures common to the worker s newspaper, style of text, and monitoring of specific situations of crisis, momentum for discussion of issues in vogue and specific guidance to the target audience. Such analysis revealed a number of policy guidelines, diversity of approaches and practices and overcoming the importance of group that should represent in the worker s press.