Processos comunicacionais em Cajazeirinha: estudo exploratório em Ilhas do Lago da Usina Hidrelétrica de Tucuruí

Abstract

This research talks about the communicational processes in an Amazon community, called Cajazeirinha, located in the Lake of the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Power Station, in the state of Pará. The main purpose of the investigation was to identify and analyze the communicational processes of the children from Cajazeirinha daily. This community has the specificity of locating in a few meters from the Hydroelectric Power Station and, contradictorily, not accessing the electrical energy supply, what makes with the population search for alternative sources of electricity (car battery, solar board or generator) to, among other things, using the broadcasting, such as the television, the radio and the cell phone. Initially, it started with the assumption that, to analyze the communication of a community or a group of people is necessary to understand its playing field and its constitution, and then observe the reality in a contextualized way, not dissociated in time and space. So, it was sought to understand the communicational processes of community, basing in the theoretical concepts of communicational processes from Vera França, communicational processes from José Luiz Braga, in the concept around Jesús Martín-Barbero and in the theoretical basis of the Studies of Latin-American Reception, from the authors Ana Carolina Escosteguy and Nilda Jacks, besides the notion of social interaction, from John Thompson. The methodological way treaded has as a perspective the exploratory research with qualitative data analysis, from bibliographical researches, deep interviews (with children, mothers and trendsetter of opinion), observation not systematic participant and field diary. The purpose was to identify and analyze the communicational processes of the community Cajazeirinha and map the existent broadcasting in Tucuruí and in the islands of this community. In this research, it was verified that in Cajazeirinha the communicational processes are constituted from the sociocultural mediations, highlighting the family, the church and the school. The communicational interactions were also observed, those that occur in leisure moments and the presence of broadcasting in the daily community, mainly in that involves contents such as soap operas, television news and cartoons. Finally, it was verified that hte ways of reception in Cajazeirinha are permeated by characteristics space-temporal-places, because of the rythm of the river that determines the life of the community.