Communication between Unequals: Workers and Radiophony in the West of Paraná

Abstract

This work brings reflections on the relationship between workers and the media, particularly through Radio Difusora, a broadcast started in the mid-1960s in south-western Brazil. It will prioritize discussing how this topics take part in this interchange, not only as “listeners”, but as subjects capable of interacting with these broadcasts – placing their demands and social tensions in the journalistic agenda. In a dense and controversial plot about the images produced by this dialogue, this study proposes to discuss the force fields that permeate such an encounter and the way how the academy conveys its analytical efforts involving the media.