Abstract
This paper aims to examine, through framing bias, the news coverage of sexual violence against children and adolescents in G1 and Folha.com, in the period of 2009 to 2011. The research assumes the initial hypothesis that the factual news on the theme does not present a necessary contextualization for the understanding of the phenomenon of sexual violence against children and adolescents, as event news. The webnews are quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed and segmented in types of framing (conflict, responsibility, human interest, economic consequences and ethics) proposed by Semetko and Valkenburg (2000). The results show that the theme is recurrent in sites analyzed through factual bias, but the preventive, conceptual, statistical bias of the news event is still little explored.
Keywords
framing; agenda-setting; juvenile sexual violence; Folha.com; G1