Informação em profundidade e inserção popular na televisão pública: a participação dos cidadãos no programa Caminhos da Reportagem – TV Brasil

Abstract

Studying the Brazilian Public TV and how it promotes citizen participation is important for a fairer and more democratic society, since the access to information and communication is a human right, guaranteed by law. Therefore, this dissertation aims to verify how the “Caminhos da Reportagem” programme, produced by TV Brasil, enables the ordinary people participation in their programmes, mainly by interviews. “Caminhos da Reportagem” is a weekly programme of in-depth reporting, with an average of 52 minutes. The methodology is based on content analysis and the empirical framework includes 12 editions of the programme, selected within one year. The analysis was quantitative and qualitative, always seeking to highlight the role of each interviewee. In the theoretical part, the study approaches the relations between the media and the identity constructions of the citizens, giving attention to the role of television in Brazilian society. In addition, we sought to understand the importance of a good public television in the communication democratization