O controle das mídias pelo Norte Global como reforço da colonialidade

Abstract

The present writing aims to analyze the role of the media, more specifically the mainstream media, in the propagation of news that prioritize relevant events to the Global North and its subject to the detriment of the Global South and its individuals. In view of this, this work proposes to dismember the themes of International Law and the Media, in an investigation whose problem lies in the following questions: the mainstream media, as an actor that spreads news around the globe, reinforces patterns that sustain coloniality in International Relations and in the protection of the individual? If so, how does this happen? In order to answer these questions, after presenting the theoretical basis that sustains this study, that is, the foundation of the colonialities of power and being, a comparative search is made for news published by the mainstream media about events in the Global North and the Global South, in order to understand whether, in fact, there is a media prioritization of the first. To this end, a hypothetical-deductive approach is used in historical, descriptive and exploratory analyses, together with methods of bibliographic survey of decolonial authors and documental survey, which consists of analyzing news published in two of the main mainstream media: The New York Times and BBC News. In conclusion, it is stated that the media gives greater relevance to the Global North, indirectly reinforcing the coloniality intrinsic to society's structures.