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This article analyzes the communication strategies of the Movement of Those Affected by the Alcântara Space Base in Maranhão, Brazil, through a case study that uses semi-structured interviews and documentary research. It mobilizes concepts of social movements, the Black movement, and quilombola. It addresses the specificities of ethnic territory and discusses the role of communication in strengthening citizenship and the Black press as a means of counterhegemony. The analysis shows that, despite difficulties, MABE confronts dominant narratives and seeks to transform power relations through autonomous and adaptive communication, inseparable from its militancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay begins with the analysis of the Brazilian parliamentary discourse, inscribed in the disputes over net neutrality, to investigate its ideological meanings. It proposes a critique, from the philosophy of technology, to the net neutrality debate and verifies its insertion in the discourse of democratization. It points out that net neutrality came closer to maintaining the logics of power associated with the global power structure than to overcoming the capitalist appropriation of the means of communication. Thus, it defends the reorientation of the dispute for the hegemony of the Internet in the faced with the need to reappropriate communication infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a review of the specialized literature and an empirical research of an exploratory nature, we sought to analyze what was identified as trends in the production, circulation and consumption in the industry of music, especially through lives and in the audio and video streaming services, notably Spotify and TikTok. It can be seen that the imposition of social isolation measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to promote significant changes in the habits of the audiences - in a context of an increasing platformization of the economy and culture - different parts of the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to think about race relations related to studies of Political Economy of Communication (EPC), I propose an analysis showing how racism is part of capitalism and how much the cultural industry strengthens and expands using racial hierarchies. Thus, media industries promote cultural domination in conjunction with economic, political and cultural factors that determine the subjugation of black people in mediatized society. I also use Cultural Studies to debate how cultural practices and communicative processes influence each other through everyday meanings appropriated by the cultural industry and, vice versa, through media representations influencing the interpersonal processes of everyday communication. The social places fixed to the black body are in cultural practices of exclusion, but the difference is also incorporated by industries, given the digitalization of the world and the promise of democratization to the digital world through new technologies. The result of this interaction between the sphere of the life world and the sphere of the media points to the material and symbolic exploitation of black life so that capitalism continues to prosper. The media industries, in the context of monopoly capitalism, depend on racism and the EPC needs to commit to this analytical possibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study seeks to show how decolonial thinking, from the perspective of communication, built from the reality of Brazil and Latin America, serves to analyze an experience of organizing emigrants' alternative political struggles. For this, it is proposed a content analyze that shows how the themes communication, information and culture were constituted in four official documents of the group that formalize needs and record proposals for improving the lives of Brazilian emigrants abroad. The results point to ideas and concrete actions that allow us to visualize that, in the face of a colonial relationship, the experience from the global South contributes to another possible, emancipatory and renewing reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication collectives are heterogeneous actors that emerge in the 21st century, the result of sociotechnical advances and balancing between media concentration -- renewed by digital oligopolies -- and counter-tendency that makes room for contesting forms. Even with the repercussion of the phenomenon, there is little consolidated literature on it. Through bibliographic research, consultation of reports and observing the performance of these agents, this study aims to promote a rapprochement with this new media alternative type: digital, collaborative and militant. Thus, it presents contexts and data, discusses concepts and proposes an affiliation for the phenomenon in order to better understand it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the relations between Cultural Studies and Marxism, pointing to both convergences (Curran and Grossberg) and divergences (Hall). We approach the space of the category of social class in the development of empirical researches of audience sheltered by Cultural Studies. The text also reflects on possible contributions of Bourdieu to this discussion, through the concepts of habitus, capitals and taste. In the end, we rely on fundamental authors for Cultural Studies to defend the resumption of a Marxist view on culture and communication, with a centrality to the study of social class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the changes in the trajectory of the four generations of Frankfurt School intellectuals. It explains the Frankfurtian concept of innovation applied to the analysis of the mass society and describes the Frankfurtians Adorno and Horkheimer's criticism of the functionalist approach and the subsequent theoretical renewal that takes place within the own Frankfurtian thought when the theses of Habermas, Honneth and Forst are released. The results indicate that the Frankfurtian trajectory is marked by the renewal of his conceptions. This study intends to update the research possibilities that use the critical paradigm, especially the Frankfurtian approach, in the field of investigation of communication and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cultural Industry emergence at the turn of twentieth century was a fundamental rupture with the old global system of culture. These dramatic changes, within the framework of the symbolic production, bring about transformations of great magnitude occurred in the political and economic spheres as well as in power and hegemony relations in world scope. The same happens at the turn of the 21st century with the transition from the economy of cultural industries to the economy of the Internet and social network sites. This paper aims to retake the critical perspective developed by the author in the construction of a Marxist theory of communication to discuss the meaning of the current transition with an emphasis on the press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this comment is to make clear certain aspects of the first chapter of Culture Industry, Information and Capitalism, misunderstood in the critic presented by Manoel Bastos in the article O caráter fetichista da informação necessária no momento da circulação simples, published in this very volume. For this, I recur to Marx and the derivation theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the revised version, in Portuguese, of a speech presented in 2015 in Havana. The objective is to discuss the place of the critic of political economy of communication and culture in historic materialism. Special emphasis is put in the theme of mediation and in the importance of a new research program proposed by the Latin American field in order to develop new perspectives to the critical communicational thought, considering the present historical challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Happiness is present in advertising narratives that are presented under the logic buy and be happy in a utilitarian perspective that feeling. In addition to the persuasive strategies focused on trade are observed in contemporary society, new narratives for happiness. They pervade tacit contagion strategies that branch virally where happiness is consumed and consummated in the communication process. In this perspective the present study articulates issues such contagion, visibility and circulation of images to observe examples of advertising campaigns where laughter and laughter take center stage, changing ways of life and creating happy experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 29 years of operation the video store brand 100% Video closed down on the grounds that piracy prevented the continuity of work. The representative of the company during its term, as well as the importance of it to the branch franchise in Brazil, it is imperative to assess what actually happened. For this, an literature explanatory research from the areas of management was carried out, communication and social sciences with the purpose of identifying the intervening factors that led to the closing. It was found that the reason part listed by the direction of 100% Video for bankruptcy does not fit with the reality, there are aspects seen as the changes brought about by technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates how State structures of censorship were dismantled during the democratic transition in two countries - Brazil and Portugal - that share historical, cultural and legal bonds as they try to leave behind the dictatorship regimes of the 20th century. In this sense, this research suggests that current differences of each media regulation entities can be understood in a context of the historical ties that have merged, in previous centuries, changes in political regime and social pressure for a broader media control or the defense of free speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to map the term consumerism, as well as semantic changes related to it, in Brazilian newspapers and magazines of the twentieth century. From the analysis, it is possible to conclude that the concept of consumerism becomes subject of public discussion in the press only from the second half of the twentieth century and its first inserts are hinged to the context of cultural products critics. It is only in the 1970s that can be seen an economic use of the word consumerism that is gradually replaced by a critic of lifestyles and habits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to establish the dialogics between the concentrated media ownership under the current management of the heirs to Roberto Marinho, called Grupo Globo, and the social territoriality associated with it. To point out this dialogics we will show, through the Political Economy and Communication, how the object is implicated in the social territoriality as a phenomenon with which must be faced; and, vice versa, how social territoriality is involved with the object, which knows it, outlines strategies to survive and to control, despite the contradictions, and turning out to be a territoriality himself, an organizational phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, a reflection undertaken in the field of communication studies, uses the theoretical contributions of Law Science to discuss the anachronism of censorship ideas that still persist in the Brazilian public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dominant theme of recent critical analysis of digital media, user-generated content and cultural industries is that they involve unpaid work ('free labour') on the part of participants. After locating the critiques of free labour in the context of autonomist Marxist thought, the article a) argues that the frequent pairing of the term 'free labour' with the concept of exploitation is unconvincing and rather incoherent, at least as so far developed by the most-cited analysts; b) explores what political demands might and might not coherently be derived from critical accounts of free labour (and argues that the internship system is by far the most significant example of free labour in the contemporary cultural industries; c) assesses a previous critical attempt to address questions of unpaid labour, involving the concept of the 'audience commodity', and judges that it takes a much more pessimistic view of populations than that of free labour, but shares a lack of engagement with lived experience and political pragmatics; d) argues for the continuing political importance of the conditions of professional cultural production, against the implicit marginalisation of that importance in some versions of the free labour debates, and summarises conclusions from some recent research on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to present a theoretical and applied analysis of the relationship of the young members of Generation Internet with forms of reception of content defined in the current scenario of convergence of media and languages. The paper aims at highlighting the direct relationship of these young people with the radio, and present data that can serve as reference for the current research on reception and media culture. Para ello, los datos de una investigación empírica sobre los hábitos, las formas y los niveles de consumo con los modelos de interferencias directas y procesos de gestión se presentan hasta hoy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The privatization of internet was not only a passage from a state logic to an economic one, but something more complex. The year of 1995 is the greatest milestone of this passage because was exactly when the National Science Foundation let the private sector control and exploit the network. Even though the free access to information was granted, the regulation model was deeply changed aiming to support the economic logic based essentially in advertising. In this paper, after a brief recapitulation about internet history, we focus on social network sites intending to summarize some main aspects to understand the network political economy. Our discussion highlights the problem in Christian Fuchs contribution about this issue as a sample of the major misinterpretation of the Marxist theory that is very common in the Anglophonic stream of political economy of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the results of a content analysis of 13 Political-Pedagogical Project of Maringá- PR schools, about two subjects: health and prevention. The goal is to show that these communication documents between managers and the school community have not been planning and disseminating information to ensure the pupils health in the school environment. The survey was conducted in April 2013, over 2012 projects, assigned by the Municipal Education Maringá-PR. Among the results, there is a lack of concrete strategies to promote health in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to posit the possibility of a rapprochement between Cultural Studies and the Critique of Political Economy, as a useful way to think about the relationship between communication, social classes and citizenship. The central argument is that Gramsci, an icon of cultural studies, never abandoned the Marxian inspired critique of political economy in his analysis of culture, nor Raymond Williams, one of the greatest exponents of cultural studies, and that this abandonment from Cultural Studies weakens its critical edge. Furthermore, comparing the notions of the dominant, emerging and residual culture, quoted by Williams, with reflections on Gramsci about most retrograde or progressive extracts of popular culture, it also intends to update the debate on the relationship between communication, culture and ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the performance of the Ministry of Culture, in the administration of President Lula and the Ministers Gilberto Gil and Juca Ferreira, the construction of what would be the first public service broadcasting in Brazil, emphasizing the discussions and formulations that bring to public TV the field of culture and the creation and deployment of TV Brazil, belonging to state broadcaster Empresa Brasil de Comunicação. Although we recognize the cross-sectional nature of the subject, we will consider the mobilization of actors linked to the Ministry of Culture. The actions of other sectors of Federal Government will be noticed only to support the understanding of political situation in the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the routine production of the program Ecolândia - o mundo onde a gente vive, radiojornal about the environment and quality of life, transmitted in a community radiobroadcast in the city of Santa Maria, in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul. For this, the methodological proposal is composed of two axes: an analysis of materials (audio and scripts) and observation of routine production. Through the interconnection of both systems we contextualize the production of the program in a joint analysis, seeking to understand how the radiojornal is inserted in a community media, safeguarding its journalistic specific characteristics. Among the main results of this study is the verification of the importance of broadening discussions between practice and theory in the axis of community communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A obra em questão fornece subsídios necessários para se entender o que é, como se faz e para onde vai o rádio hoje. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de fôlego que percorre uma meticulosa trajetória a respeito da tecnologia do podcasting e a capacidade de adaptação do meio radiofônico à Era da Convergência Tecnológica em que estamos vivendo. A partir de um arcabouço teórico metodológico ligado aos estudos culturais britânicos, que bebe das fontes da Economia Política da Comunicação (EPC), aliada aos estudos de cibercultura, o autor aborda questões como: a) o surgimento e evolução do podcasting; b) a distribuição de conteúdos de áudio via internet e os novos modelos de negócio imbricados nesse contexto; c) o novo papel desempenhado pelas audiências; d) estudos de caso oriundos da Espanha e de outros países europeus; e) reflexões que contribuem para a discussão no meio dos estudos ligados à radiodifusão e às mídias sonoras, em torno do que é e o que não é rádio na contemporaneidade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text aims at offering a quick glance on the present scenario of the so-called community broadcasting radio stations, duly authorized in the city of São Paulo. Up until January 2012 the Ministry of Communications recognized the existence of 34 radio stations of this kind in São Paulo. In order to contextualize the operation of these stations we will start by offering a present view of the FM broadcasting in the city. Following that we will present a brief description of some of the community stations already licensed and will develop a reflection on evident deviations, impasses, contradictions and potentialities in this scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the political economy of communication, a proposal of periodization is presented for the history of radio in Brazil, considering the predominance of commercial radio stations. For this, communicational environment, legal regulation of these activities, technologies used, the kind of content offered are used as variables, and based on the last two, the habits of public consumption. Hence, the identification of crossover points: (1) publicity regulation; (2) television, transistorization of the receptors, and modulated frequency; and (3) mobile telephony, commercial internet, and the technologies and practices related to them. As a result, the division of the history of Brazilian radio into four phases is proposed - implantation, diffusion, segmentation, and convergence -, describing the characteristics of each one of these. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to systematize some reflections about Brazilian radio political economy, starting from a general preamble that will lead in timeline proposal. This is not about the history of radio itself, but the construction of an analysis tool (timeline) absolutely necessary for a correct perspective about the social processes towards the Political Economy of Communication (PEC), which is the theoretical foundation of this text, which relies in historical studies, especially in the classical book of Gisela Ortriwano (1985) and in an article of Luiz Artur Ferraretto (2009), which outlines a well-founded preliminary timeline that I will reconstruct, trying to clarify the cutting points and articulating it to my own timeline of Brazilian television (Bolaño, 2004). This is paper is just the beginning of a work that is restricted basically to the commercial radio and expects to be enriched with other colleagues contribution more directly linked to the studies about radio itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The currency is still judged for its finality's inversion: it's a mean that became the goal. It's under this reflection that this paper intends to discuss the weight of the currency (economic means) on the communication development in a moment that currency and ICTs are considered means of communication enhanced until the maximum power. Besides, the disparity amongst the men got an unexpected reinforcement: the inequality reassures now in the core and through the power of a system that defines itself for the equality, even though not amongst men, but amongst merchandise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]