“…More recently, in Brazil, various studies have investigated the role of the media in the formation of social representations of different social objects (Bousfield & Camargo, 2011;Corrêa, Gontijo, Assis, Carrieri, & Melo, 2007;Porto, 2009;Teo, 2010). Some studies on the social representation of the environment recognize the role of means of mass communication in the formation of social thought on this subject (Bertoldo & Bousfield, 2011;Calixto Flores, 2008;Kuhnen & Becker, 2010;López, Avelar, Moreno, Beltrán, & Estrada, 2008;Polli, Kuhnen, Azevedo, Fantin, & Silva, 2009).…”