The mediatic memory of the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil and the public debate through the "chumbo quente" series on Youtube (2014-2015)

Abstract

The study presented here is part of a research project that aimed to investigate the mediatic memory of the actions of the press in the years of the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil, portrayed in Chumbo Quente, a television production shown in 2014, on the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil-military coup, produced by Observatório da Imprensa, a program which was hosted by Alberto Dines, a Brazilian journalism intellectual. For this purpose, we sought to understand how this production dialogues with an existing memory about this period, as well as how it fits into the public debate between critics and defenders of the dictatorship as their content expands to digital platforms. Therefore, we analyzed the comments on the series on YouTube using the Iramuteq lexicographic analysis tool. The study reveals a diffuse understanding of internet users' interaction with the series on YouTube. And, although the program has ceased to exist, the series is still available on digital media in order to perpetuate this content to a wide audience.