TV aberta no Marajó: usos e apropriações pelos moradores da comunidade São Pedro em Breves-Pará-Amazônia

Abstract

The focus of this research was to investigate the role of mass media and their production in communication processes from the analysis of the uses and appropriations of the content of network TV by residents of the São Pedro community (Breves-Marajó-Pará). From reception study carried out for three months, and previous visits to the official date of field activities, was formed the corpus, which includes a set of statements of community residents, in which the record was made either by exploiting “the cues symbolic" from the technique of ethnographic observation of communication, now considering techniques such as oral history or focus group. Elected to three groups - children, adolescents and adults - so that one could compare and discuss the research results regard to the uses and appropriations of the content of television programs. Identified that television takes on religious significance in a traditional catholic community, even considering the strong presence of other mediations. Furthermore, television formats and genres shape, decisively, the communication processes of each group investigated. It was also found that the telenovela is the programming that acts as an element of communication integrating family streamlining the daily lives of residents and focusing, including, the reception of other media products, indicating significant aspects for understanding the role of mass media in the communication processes in the Amazonia.