INFORMATIONAL RETERRITORIALIZATION: THE FORMS OF COMMUNICATE IN THE NEWS DESERTS IN ESPÍRITO SANTO
Name: RITA DE CASSIA VITORIA BENEZATH
Publication date: 28/04/2023
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ATIA MARIA BELISÁRIO | Examinador Externo |
| CICILIA MARIA KROHLING PERUZZO | Examinador Interno |
| RUTH DE CASSIA DOS REIS | Presidente |
Summary: This research focuses on the transformations in the communicational and journalistic
ecosystem, and aims to identify the habits of communication and information exchanges
about current affairs by residents of small towns in Espírito Santo. These towns are
located far from the capital's media conglomerate, and are seen as a news desert. The
research examines the city of Alfredo Chaves (located in the state’s southern coastal
micro-region). As our theoretical foundation, we use the concepts of public sphere,
citizenship and community communication, debated in the field of journalism and in
studies focused on the new communication ecosystem. In addition to the bibliographical
research, intended to support this work, we will resort to documentary research aimed at
mapping the main journalistic vehicles in Espírito Santo and in the researched regions,
where the researched municipalities are located. The methodological scheme is
completed with a direct approach to the residents of the researched territories through
in-depth interviews and a focus group, in order to build proximity with the researched
universes. The analyzes show how the territory, even within the same city and a few
meters away, determines access and support from public authorities and the media, both
in the propagation of educational and cultural projects and even in basic demands. It is
also notorious how community communication appears almost naturally in the so-called
"news deserts", because facts happen anyway. Communication is inherent in human
beings. In territories that have been underserved by professional journalism for so long,
public and virtual spaces (such as social media) help fill in the gaps left by the closing
of newspapers.
