Abstract

SOUSA, Vítor de. A luz, as sombras e a procura da verdade: Os média e a construção de uma realidade equívoca e totalizante. OBS* [online]. 2017, vol.11, n.1, pp.20lpage=40-. ISSN 1646-5954.

The light associated with the idea of truth, enhances the actual living of it and reflects it in different tones. Platão (”Alegoria da Caverna” [Cave Allegory]) observed that the cave corresponded to the visible world and the sun to the fire whose light projected into it. For Nietzsche 'truth' was a point of view; Umberto Eco prefers the lies (Eco, 2015). José Saramago (Ensaio sobre a cegueira [Blindness]) uses many metaphors to explain how people are becoming more and more blind in the contemporary world. There are therefore various realities, all of them socially constructed (Berger & Luckmann, 1999). The previous world's view, too primary, if it didn't exclude God, interpreted the notions of "Heaven" and "Hell" as consequences of human actions themselves (Mattoso, 2012). The truth is that despite the announced death of God, uncertainty and emptiness still reactivate old and new spiritualities (Lipovetsky, 2007). What then means the truth today? Does the light illuminate reality? Can the excess of light cause blindness? Is there a parallel world created by concealment of light? Does the media world with its agenda setting and framing, exclude most of reality? These are reflections that will be dealt with in this article.

Keywords : Light; darkness; truth; lie; media; social construction of reality.

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