Paródia satírica e crítica midiática nas notícias fictícias do site Sensacionalista

Abstract

This work investigates the satirical parody of the journalism produced by the humor website known as Sensacionalista, and how this parody media vehicle comically develops criticism of the media. The satirical parody promoted by fictional news sites, such as Sensacionalista, subverts values and dogmas of journalism. In this movement, parody vehicles question the work of the media, the performance of its professionals, its products, processes, logic and routines. Critically disseminated content comically promotes, even momentaneously, critical reflections on the reader. The unnews work within the critical-interpretive social system, proposed by Braga (2006), as an alternative to more elaborate, in-depth, serious and criticized media critics for an audience made of initiates. The theoretical basis includes studies on humor, comedy and laughter, by Bergson, Propp, Alberti, Minois and Bakhtin; on fictional news and journalistic parody, by Oliveira, Gerson and Dornelles, Silveira, Barbosa de Sousa and Santiago, Figueira and Santos; and on media critique, by Dines, Traquina, Bertrand, Marcondes Filho, Braga, Motta, Hamilton, Silva and Paulino, Loures and Christofoletti. The analysis of content proposed by Bardin (2008), applied to a corpus of 101 publications with critical content about the media, in a peiord of eight months (January 1st, 2016 to August 31st, 2016) is adopted as the methodology.