SCANDALS, MEDIA AND FINANCES: A study of the cultural and political conflicts that guided the Lula administration and its implications on democratic and economic fields

• Grant number: 11/15932-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Grün
• Grantee: Ana Carolina Bichoffe
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study focus the debate of the media caught scandals that had reached the end of the first Lula administration and have become more pronounced during the 2006 elections. Therefore, I present a literature review and survey of the prosopographical main actors, that have been highlighted in the context of the disputes: on one hand, journalists located in the "printed press mainstream "- and disseminators of other scandals, journalists favorable to Lula that spread their ideas through blogs, sites considered to be free speech. This universe of blogs, most notably known as the "blogosphere" seems to reveal itself as having a decisive role in systematic manifestations that arise in the period, and lead to a reversal on the decision of the election. The product of these analysis provide a substrate for further discussion about cultural disputes that led the political field, in a recent moment of the brazilian social life, the rise of new ways of thinking democracy and economy.