O ensino de Teorias do Jornalismo no Brasil: uma análise de programas da disciplina na graduação

Abstract

The present research proposes as a central question to analyze which knowledge and contents have been mobilized in the Theories of Journalism disciplines of 25 institutions in the national territory, through an analysis of the documental nature of the menus, bibliographies and curricular matrices of these disciplines. In this sense, it is interesting to know better the offer of the curricular units that deal with Theories of Journalism, in order to understand if the discipline reflects what journalism theory is and if it is adequate to what the bibliography proposes. For this, resort to Content Analysis on the selected documents. As a result, it could be seen that there are tendencies to defend specific studies on Journalism through the offer of Theories of Journalism disciplines in undergraduate courses, and not just present them together with theoretical studies of Communication, despite the burden timetable not very representative of the disciplines. The menus are presented in a generic way, but point to a predominance of studies on Agenda-Setting and Newsmaking Theories, while the bibliographies correspond to what is appropriate in the menus, but are marked by the absence of original works.