Território comunicacional, cidadania e identidade: cartografia de experiências sonoras e radiofônicas no semiárido baiano

Abstract

The present thesis aims to raise reflections on the experiences and possibilities of sound products, radio broadcasts, and their communicational dynamics of citizenship in the municipality of Conceição do Coité, in the semi-arid region of Bahia. Therefore, the general objective is to investigate sound products and radio broadcasts and their communicational dynamics of citizenship, which favor the construction of the exercise of communicational citizenship, capable of constituting the municipality of Conceição do Coité as a Communicational Territory. To achieve this, the specific objectives are: to identify the characteristics of sound products, radio broadcasts, and communicational dynamics; to ascertain which experiences individuals involved with sound products, radio broadcasts, and communicational dynamics consider relevant for the development of their citizenship in the social, political, sustainable, and technological spheres of their locality; to list the characteristics of a Communicational Territory in its relation to sound products, radio broadcasts, and communicational dynamics for the exercise of communicational citizenship. Employing theoretical principles of Communication as a foundation (Braga, 2011; Martín-Barbero, 2003), Communicational Citizenship (Signates; Moraes, 2019), Communicational Territory (Haesbaert, 2006; Santos, 2004; Borges, 2013), especially the work of the Bahian geographer Milton Santos, which encompasses from the beginnings, in his studies, the peculiar characteristics of what would later become the political division of Bahia into Identity Territories, on Experience (Dewey, 1980, 2010; Cardoso Filho, 2011), this investigation is based on the contributions of qualitative research and a cartographic perspective (Deleuze, Guattari, 1995), with a temporal scope spanning from 2020 to 2024, considering historical aspects such as the arrival of the Social Communication course in 2005; the need presented by social movements and civil society, and especially due to the peculiarities of mediated orality (Silva, 1999) in the municipality. The methodology will involve the cartographic method, using bibliographic research, note-taking, and structured interviews as data collection instruments. The analysis of structured interviews will employ Experience Cartography, highlighting categories activated from Barberian Theory (Lopes, 2018) and the perspective of Empirical Reflexivity in Communication Research (Lopes, 2018), so that all experiences can reveal, confront, and raise awareness of the main relevant aspects and communicational dynamics that sound products and radio broadcasts enable or inhibit the municipality of Conceição do Coité to constitute itself as a Communicational Territory. Partial results indicated the potential of the communicational object of this study as a propeller of mediated orality and communicational dynamics, which in Conceição do Coité drive communicational citizenship. The final results obtained in empirical research confirmed the potential of mediated orality of the Sisal Territory and that the municipality of Conceição do Coité constitutes itself as a Communicational Territory. The municipality of Conceição do Coité is characterized by power struggles and declared political stances, with political polarity being structurally entrenched in the municipality, in addition to silenced symbolic struggles. Communicational dynamics, the closeness and distances of identity orders, promote the exercise of Communicational Citizenship. There is a hegemonic political control alongside movements of resistance, resignations, and persistences. The municipality of Coité presents a scenario of technological transformations, where traditional and modern elements interact. The leadership of women in the Bahian backlands and in Coité/BA is notable, although their presence in broadcasting activities remains limited. A significant portion of individuals who shared their experiences with sound products and radio broadcasts showed characteristics of communicational connection/bond with the locality and region during their participation in interviews and throughout the research. I emphasize the representativeness and influence of UNEB, Campus XIV, and the RTV Communication Course in the communicational field, in the formation of professionals, and in driving the development of Conceição do Coité/Ba municipality and the Sisal Territory in the Bahian semi-arid region.