Cidade e experiências de comunicação: cultura, memórias e estratégias de luta de moradores pobres no espaço urbano: Uberlândia (1990-2012)

Abstract

This work is intended to analyse poor citizens‟ experiences at applying their communication strategies in the city of Uberlândia. By analysing a documentary produced by the television chain Rede Vitoriosa , from its emission Linha Dura no seu bairro (the Portuguese for Linha Dura in your district), one managed to obtain a complete investigation that treats the relationship amongst the living experiences of poor citizens around the city, by integrating and providing new ways of communicating. It encompass a period between the decades of 1990 and 2010, and remarks the important evolution of the communication devices that took place alongside a growing interest towards television viewers, as far as their relationship with the daily life in the suburbs were concerned. The research, carried out from written and video resources, together with interviews, has provided a strategy aimed to understand the city of Uberlandia in the given period. The same research has also related the mobilization of the inhabitants throughout the urban background to the news production, consumption and broadcasting. Getting to realize how do citizens take part in this process has become such a challenge for the concerned research, in its intents to look into the manners the citizens create their own communication spaces and also take over existing ones, in order to constitute a communication field on an unequal background.