WAR.DOC: a research and a film on war coverage

• Grant number: 13/13047-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: October 07, 2013
• End date: October 06, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications
• Principal Investigator: Mamede Mustafa Jarouche
• Grantee: Vanessa Lehmkuhl Pedro
• Supervisor: Abi Wright
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Columbia University in the City of New York, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/16269-0 - Narrative and war: war coverage on the Brazilian and international media, BP.PD

Abstract

This project will be a one year research in the city of New York at Columbia University. It envolves academic research supervised by Professor Abi Wright, Director of Alfred I. duPont Awards of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. Reel Lives, an organization that works with video for education will let me edit my documentary WAR.DOC: a film on war coverage. The project called WAR.DOC: a research and a film on war coverage will put together academic research and the conclusion of a video on the issue. This work is part of my post-doctoral research developed at Universidade de São Paulo, supervised by Professor Mamede Jarouche. (AU)