Skin colour and sexual orientation

Transmedia meanings and discourses of newspapers’ covers on social media)

Abstract

Once people increasingly consume news on social media in Portugal (Cardoso, Baldi, Paisana et al., 2021) and journalism gets more present on the digital (Salaverría, 2019), covers from press editions have also been shared on those. As wholes of information, newspapers’ covers produce meanings and discourses. Aiming to prove it, it was made use of the contributes from Social Semiotics and Discourse Studies to analyse two newspapers’ covers and four posts on Facebook and Twitter with a relevant reach. Mainly, it is possible to conclude that the produced meanings around the people they include were: in what comes to the Record’s cover, interventionist, and, in what comes to the Tal&Qual’s cover, depreciative. Concerning the produced discourses around the covers through the posts: there is a convergence with the produced meanings by the Record’s cover, and a divergence with the ones produced by the Tal&Qual’s cover.