Rádios comunitárias e mobilização social: um estudo sobre as estratégias comunicacionais da RádioCom FM, de Pelotas - RS

Abstract

This research, of qualitative character, studies RadioComFM , of the city Pelotas ( RS ) in order to investigate how communicational strategies for social mobilization of community radio contribute to the democratization of communication . To answer this problem, it is defined as a general goal, to investigate the communicational strategies of RadioCom FM and its interfaces with social mobilization and democratization of communication. The specific objectives are to identify the profile of RadioCom; to check social mobilization strategies present in the radio programming schedule; and to understand the relationship between community media, social mobilization strategies and democratization of communication. It is used as research strategy, the case study, with the following sources of evidence: documentary research; observation of programming and daily of the radio; and semi structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with managers and people that participate of the radio programming schedule. The collected data were systematized and interpreted with the use of the method of thematic content analysis. Thus, it is identifies, in RadioCom, a multidimensional media, that comprises , in the complex of a structure of community communication, the collective, legal-normative, political and socio-communicational dimensions. In relation to communicational strategies for social mobilization checked in the programming schedule, it is inferred that the RadioCom is qualified by the plurality of contents of public interest and the differential bias of the commercial media. The interlacement of the concepts of community media, social mobilization strategies and democratization of communication are established by the meanings given to each concept. So, by the investigation of communicational strategies for social mobilization, it is concluded that the RadioCom contributes to the processes of democratization of communication, configuring itself as a strategy to do so.