The communitarian discourse: ideology and interpretation

Abstract

Communitarian communication is considered one of the most important approaches of the communication field. It means not only the idea of democratization of the media, but, over all, a logical system of practices that are contrary to globalization, in its process of social, economic and cultural exclusion. This idea, however, is contested when it observes the limits imposed to the communitarian communication by the local elite, who co-opt it in its systems of influence, as well as by the pressures of the great conglomerates of the communication. The objective of this work is to critically analyze the discourse of communitarian communication in the context of the current political economy of communication. Resultant of the historical process of capitalism, communitarian communication is understood here as an ideological product, a practice which is inserted in a field of social disputes conducted by the forces that try to co-opt it.