Jogos de poder e de vozes: eleições de 2012 no município de Cajazeiras.

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the relations between Media and Politics in the elections mayorof the city of Cajazeiras in the year 2012, learning how and / or to what extent, media resources fostered the conditions of possibility of clashes, alliances, correlations of Forces, strategies and tactics of the campaign in those elections. Thus, the central concern is to undertake a reflection on the role of the media in politics, through discourse analysis, with sources like the JornalGazeta do Alto Piranhas and the website Diário do Sertão, taking the mediatic discourse as a space of power And elaboration of speech. The research is part of the New Political History field, which dates back to the end of the 20th century, when politics gained new contours and came to be seen related to power, such as clashes, games and correlations of forces, among other reasons, due to the need to Contribute and bring new problematizations to the field of research on Cajazeiras policy.