Body hybrid: media analysis of the participation of the athlete Oscar Pistorius in the Athletics World Championship of 2011
Keywords:
Oscar Pistorius, Hybrid body, Media, Athletics World Championship 2011Abstract
In this paper, we address issues related to hybrid body – merging natural/artificial – that could be observed through the portal Globo.com monitoring regarding the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, his participation and all the controversy about him in the Athletics World Championship of 2011 held in South Korea. In a month period, we identified 23 news related to Pistorius, and analyzed them from the hermeneutics of depth. We found a schedule of the athlete for his originality and controversy involved, i.e., because he was a bi-amputee athlete who competes with prosthetics - which characterizes it as a hybrid body – along with athletes disabilities free.Downloads
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2015-10-21
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