Media interventions as media insurgencies in territories of social vulnerability

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55738/alaic.v22i42.993

Keywords:

Media interventions, Media insurgency, Territories of vulnerability, Struggle for recognition

Abstract

Since the 1980s, media intervention has been used in UN peacekeeping missions to combat communications that fuel conflicts. Recently, media interventions have reached other contexts and areas, from art to politics. From this perspective, the paper aims to explore the theoretical propositions and practical potentialities of media intervention strategies for media insurgencies in territories of social vulnerability, supported by decolonial precepts. Given that, the article relies on a literature review in the three fields that make up the theoretical framework, communication, political philosophy, and political geography, and a case study of media intervention in the largest favela in Sao Paulo, Heliópolis, and its results in another community, Pós-Balsa, in another city.

 

Author Biographies

Cilene Victor, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo

She is a full professor of the Postgraduate Program in Social Communication at the Methodist University of Sao Paulo (UMESP), leading the "Humanitarian Journalism and Media Interventions" research group. Professor at the Paulus Communication College (FAPCOM) and FGV LAW. She developed postdoctoral research in the Postgraduate Program in Planning and Territorial Management (UFABC), holds a PhD in Public Health (USP), a master's degree in Scientific and Technological Communication (UMESP), and a bachelor's degree in Journalism (UMC). She has been a professor since 1995, teaching Journalism and Public Relations courses. As a journalist and researcher, she has focused on media interventions, journalism and forced displacement and refuge, risk communication, humanitarian and peace journalism, and their interfaces with conflicts, wars, sustainability, disasters, and climate change.

 

 

 

 

Louis Edoa, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo

PhD candidate of the Graduate Program in Social Communication at the School of Communication, Education and Humanities of the Methodist University of São Paulo (PPGCOM-Umesp) in studies of Risk Communication and Disaster Prevention linked to Climate Change. Master in Social Communication from the School of Communication, Education and Humanities of the Methodist University of São Paulo (PPGCOM-Umesp), CNPq scholarship holder. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D&I) specialist and consultant. Journalist, Theologian, Philosopher, Writer and Researcher in Communication. Member of Umesp's Research Groups on Humanitarian Journalism and Interventions in the Media and Semio Humanitas. I research and study the themes: Humanitarian Journalism and Peace Journalism; Invisibility; Otherness; Struggle for recognition; Ethnic representation; Racism; Disaster; Tragedy; Vulnerability and Social Inclusion.

Published

08/07/2023

How to Cite

VICTOR, C.; EDOA, L. Media interventions as media insurgencies in territories of social vulnerability. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, [S. l.], v. 22, n. 42, 2023. DOI: 10.55738/alaic.v22i42.993. Disponível em: https://revista.pubalaic.org/index.php/alaic/article/view/993. Acesso em: 12 may. 2024.