Big data media analysis and the representation of urban violence in Brazil

巴西目前的社会和政治局势造成了一种针对个人的城市暴力，其特点是持续存在。巴西普通公民每天都要与这种暴力作斗争。这在一般民众中造成了一种普遍的恐惧和不安全感，但与此同时，可能会促进社会意识较强的个人对巴西较弱势阶层的同情。媒体的影响促成了这一局面。每天的新闻报道都突出强调社会各阶层的个人或团体实施的暴力行为。因此，暴力对人们日常生活的影响被媒体放大。这促进了与暴力有关的信念、态度和价值观，而这些信念、态度和价值观可能与暴力的实际发生率、形式和原因一致，也可能不一致。2. 2010年在巴西福塔莱萨进行的关于城市暴力问题的两个焦点小组的现有记录，共约20 000字（焦点小组语料库）;作为伙伴关系的一部分，建立一个200万字的巴西新闻报道语料库（新闻报道语料库）。

Brazil's current social and political situation gives rise to a particular breed of urban violence aimed at individuals and characterized by its continual presence. The average Brazilian citizen has to contend with this violence on a daily basis. This creates a general state of fear and insecurity among the population in general, but, at the same time, may promote on the part of more socially aware individuals, a sense of empathy with the less privileged classes in Brazil. The influence of the media contributes to this scenario. Daily news reports highlight violent acts carried out by individuals or groups from all social classes. The impact of violence on people's everyday lives is thus amplified by the media. This fosters beliefs, attitudes and values related to violence, which may or may not be consistent with the actual incidence, forms and causes of violence.The partners will investigate the linguistic representation of urban violence in Brazil by applying the techniques of Corpus Linguistics to two datasets, or 'corpora':1. The existing transcripts of two focus groups on living with urban violence conducted in Fortaleza, Brazil in 2010, for a total of approximately 20,000 words (Focus Groups Corpus);2. A 2-million-word corpus of news reports in the Brazilian press, to be constructed as part of the partnership (News Reports Corpus).