Abstract
In this article we discuss AIDS as a disruptor happening in two dimensions: on social relations and on the news coverage of it that have been made. Derives from this condition their exemplary character to explore the notion of the power of affecting of certain happenings. Our reflections about the disruptor power - and for that very emblematic - of AIDS, as a happening that affects and is affected by the social life, and the media coverage will be based on some research on the subject that we have already developed for more than two decades. When it emerged as problematic happening AIDS has forced many medical-scientific and social mobilizations in an attempt to understand it, (a) movement that significantly affected news coverage about the syndrome and the happenings it triggered.
Keywords:
Journalism; Happening; Narrative; AIDS; Power of Affecting