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- Title
Community radio broadcasting in Brazil: action rationales and public space.
- Authors
Leal, Sayonara
- Abstract
This article is about the role played by Brazilian community radio stations as public spaces, including different action rationales and places where there are political, social and cultural discourses from various genres such as informative and opinionative, especially the latter. Such spaces are embedded by communicative and instrumental actions as Habermas notes, manifest in the tensions and approximations between public and common spaces. Based upon a cross-case study from these media, the action rationales and the dynamics of the spaces are analysed. Stemming from the way such radio stations work, it is possible to assess whether they are a ‘locus’ for public debates, involving the community and favouring communication which addresses the common interest, or, to a large extent, social arenas for welfare appeals and criticisms and fulfilling immediate needs from members of a particular locality. Data collection included unstructured and episodic interviews, radio programmes and analysis of documents from fifteen community radio stations in the Federal District and surroundings. After that, for more in-depth information, five case studies were carried out in Brazil.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RADIO stations -- Social aspects; RADIO broadcasting -- Social aspects; RADIO broadcasting &; politics; RADIO &; society; RADIO programs; MASS media research; LOCAL mass media
- Publication
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
1476-4504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/rajo.7.2.155/1