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

巴西目前的社会和政治局势导致了针对个人的一种特殊的城市暴力，其特点是这种暴力持续存在。普通巴西公民每天都要面对这种暴力。这在整个人群中造成了一种普遍的恐惧和不安全状态，但与此同时，可能会促使更有社会意识的个人对巴西的弱势阶层产生一种同情。媒体的影响促成了这种情况。每天的新闻报道都强调了来自社会各阶层的个人或团体所实施的暴力行为。因此，暴力对人们日常生活的影响被媒体放大了。这助长了与暴力有关的信念、态度和价值观，这些信念、态度和价值观可能与暴力的实际发生、形式和原因一致，也可能不一致。合作伙伴将通过将语料库语言学技术应用于两个数据集（或“语料库”）来调查巴西城市暴力的语言表征：1。1 . 2010年在巴西福塔莱萨（Fortaleza）进行的两个关于城市暴力生活的焦点小组的现有文本，总计约20,000字（焦点小组语料库）；一个200万字的巴西新闻报道语料库，将作为合作伙伴关系的一部分（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).