IAMCR Participação portuguesa No congresso da International Association for Media and Communication Research, que hoje terminou em Taipei, foram apresentadas duas comunicações portuguesas. Aí ficam (imodestamente) os resumos: The mobilization of the "Lusophony" concept The Case of RTP International Channels Helena Sousa (UM) This article discusses the role Portuguese television international channels (RTP Internacional and RTP África) have played in the reconfiguration of an highly dispersed multi-continental cultural area ? the Lusophone Space (Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, S. Tomé and Príncipe, East-Timor). According to some authors (e.g. Lourenço, 1993; Baptista 2000), this post-colonial reconstruct fulfils an imaginary space of imperial nostalgia so the Portuguese can fell less isolated and more visible in the world. Eventually, it could be a term to abandon. Martins believes however that Lusophony is a territory of cultural archetypes, a mythic basis which nourishes collective dreams (2004). If myth is a discursive phenomenon and if language defines reality, it might be argued that Lusophony is fundamentally an operational classification which has practical functions and it is designed to produce social effects. In this paper we will try to demonstrate that political actors, from different party affiliations, assumed that - through the daily representation of a Lusophone linguistic and cultural area, RTP International and RTP África would play a significant role in the recognition of this cultural area and would contribute to the formal constitution and further development of a Lusophone Community. Though it is still early to assess the full relevance of RTP (Portuguese public service television operator) international channels to the political process which led to the formal foundation of the Portuguese Language Countries Community (CPLP, Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) in 1996, we are convinced that attention should be given to these international channels. Reporting on pain: the power to transform fear in panic Madalena Oliveira (UM) The dramatic moments that we have lived at international level since 2001 have constituted a debate about the limits of media freedom, mainly when the question is the informative treatment of situations of social trauma. September 11, March 11, Afghanistan, Middle Orient and Iraq wars, as well as Asiatic tsunami of the end of 2004 are emblematic examples of how audiovisual media use the emotion strategically, endangering the quality of their work. To transform an individual pain into a collective feeling of suffering is a capacity of all mass media. Journalistic media have a real strong power to transform, as Karl Kraus previewed, moderated emotions and passions in hysteria and spree, the national pride in nationalist delirium and xenophobia and fear in panic. In this new context, coming as a consequence of globalisation phenomenon, the power of journalistic media to generate global emotions is one of the reasons why the reflection on journalists? activity is essential. Not only as an effort of vigilance, but also as a way of reinvent the role of them who report our lives. Metajournalism is my proposal to answer the challenges of the age of globalisation for journalism discourse.