RADIOJORNALISM IN THE CITY OF PALMAS: an analysis of the performance of six radio stations about their contributions to citizenship

Abstract

This research sought to understand how radio contributes to the understanding of the world, which is essential to forming opinions on issues relevant to the exercise of citizenship. We believe it is essential to discuss the role of the media as one of the main discussion forums in democratic societies and we consider radio as a privileged vehicle for the promotion of citizenship, since it brings together a set of elements favorable to this end, among them: proximity with the public and the language used. Thus, in this work we analyze the relationship between citizenship and radio in the city of Palmas-TO. For this, we studied the brodcast programming of six radio stations tuned in the city for two years (2017 and 2018). We observed that the radio continues to have a great civic potential, but at this moment, in general, the programming of the six radios participating in the study, did little to promote effective citizenship.

Keywords: Citizenship; Palmas-TO; Journalism; Radiojournalism; Democracy