Coletivo Terra Firme: comunicação e cidadania na periferia

Abstract

This research departs from the themes and concepts of communication, citizenship and periphery, understood as fundamental for a better understanding Coletivo Tela Firme‟s communicative pratices, which is our studied object. The group works in the urban periphery, specifically in Terra Firme neighborhood, in Belém, Pará state. Their work consists of audiovisual production that circulates on the internet as well as citizenship actions directly in the outskirts of the city. Such work is based on the logic of popular, alternative, community communication, since it is carried out in and for the peripheral neighborhoods and communities from Belém, aiming at social awareness and social change. The group‟s work has become a reference in the city‟s political and educational fields. Thus, this research goal is to inquiry the configuration of Coletivo Tela Firme‟s communicative practices in the outskirts of the capital of Pará. The hypothesis raised in the investigation is that the group‟s activism in the communities where it operates in is intended to stimulate and promote political and social engagement among those who live there, mainly to contribute to their citizenship rights enhancement. Hence, it is proposed in this study a process of mapping and analyzing their videos and the actions they have done in Belém peripheral neighborhoods, either on their own or in partnership with other movements and organizations engaged with political and social struggles. The theoretical standpoints that support our research are based on Peruzzo (2009), Gohn (2010), Gonczevski and Martin (2011), Pinsky and Pinsky (2013), Mouffe (2013). Coletivo Tela Firme‟s work began in social media which, according to Castells (2005), Lemos (2006) and Primo (2013), are platforms that favor political and social participation processes, as much as they contribute to the articulation with other resistance movements. To carry out this study, the master's thesis approach is based on bibliographical and qualitative-descriptive research, mainly informed by content analysis, as well as interviewing, to reach its objectives, among which identifying citizenship alternatives in and for the urban periphery through Coletivo Tela Firme‟s communicative practices.