Violence against women in the state of Goiás based on analysis of digital media

a case study on the G1 news portal

Abstract

Violence against women is a reality in Brazil. Although the country has advanced in terms of legislation, with emphasis on Law n. 11,340 / 2006, Lei Maria da Penha, and Law 13,104 / 2015, known as the femicide law, there are still many challenges in confronting violence against women, which permeate legal, social, cultural and political issues. One of the points that draws attention is that not every crime is reported, which ends up impacting the consolidation of indicators on violence that can be used in the construction of public policies to support women and fight violence. In addition, there are still obstacles and challenges for collecting this data, mostly obtained from the civil and military police of each state of the Federation, which use different structures and methodologies to measure this social phenomenon. On the other hand, the repercussion of cases of violence against women in the media is notable, which opens up the opportunity to explore the news as data sources for generating indicators. Based on this, this paper explores the use of solutions based on data mining techniques aimed at identifying themes explored in the context of violence against women from news items broadcast in digital media. Therefore, a case study is carried out based on a sample of journalistic texts extracted from the G1 Goiás portal. The results obtained suggest patterns, especially with regard to temporality and the themes explored, in addition to highlighting the issue of (in) visibility of the topic in digital media.