A multimodalidade como ferramenta de inclusão no jornalismo científico

Abstract

This article aims to reflect upon how multimodality is present in the scientific journalism discourse. It analyses the journalistic articles published in Pesquisa FAPESP, a print magazine devoted to disseminate scientific research. As the pages of a magazine consist of texts, images, graphics and photos, the articles were used to observe how multimodality occurs in this kind of text. The analysis draws on the relationships between power and discourse as posited by Gnerre (2009) and Fairclough (2001), as well as the categories of analysis proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) in Reading images. The grammar of visual design. The results show that, in the current context of democratic crisis, scientific journalism uses multimodal resources to make texts more intelligible, serving as a tool of inclusion and preventing the discourse of science from being used as an element of power by those who produce it inside laboratories, research institutes, and universities.