"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of the discourse revealed in the media, this article examines projects, thereby aiming to qualify and label the justificatory discourses, in order to develop an understanding of intentions. The BRICS countries have become a reference point as the press increasingly makes comparisons between these countries. The notion of recognition, present in the political elites, also appears as a part of the public imagination and in the press. The leaders too seek transformation. The first official multilateral institution founded by the BRICS countries was the New Development Bank. Current efforts indicate the development of common scientific and technological research initiatives and official support for the establishment of an innovative BRICS Network University. Initiatives will appear as these countries try to consolidate their position." (Abstract)

"Our investigation is centred around two research strategies, of which we shall examine some results in this article. Our corpus was composed of press articles collected using Factiva. We also interviewed four journalists from the BRICS countries who live and work in São Paulo, Brazil, in March and April 2016. Before turning to examine the results of our investigations using Factiva, we shall say a few words about how the research was carried out. Factiva is a leading website providing more than 32,000 sources from newspapers, journals, magazines, newswires, blogs and so on worldwide in 28 languages. We conducted three searches of which we shall treat two in this article. The main search was conducted on 5 February 2016. The following filters were used: Languages: English, French and Portuguese; All regions in the world, all subjects, all enterprises, all authors and all sources. First, we conducted research using the term ‘BRICS’ and ‘summit’ and ‘2015’ during the 7-month period between 1 June and 31 December 2015. In total, 1503 results were found, and the results are depicted in the figure 1. By using the function ‘select’, we have excluded articles referencing stock exchangerelated topics, corporations, mining activities and all press releases from companies. Because one author is French and the other Brazilian, we have selected all articles in these languages. There were not very many." (Pages 30-31)