The popular communication as a path to the construction of citzenship

Abstract

The popular communication should contribute to the construction of citizenship in the community. According PERUZZO (1991), this is an emergent communication that comes from people or is related to him. It’s from this concept that we reflect about the role of this communication to the knowledge of rights and duties and the practice of citizenship. Also we analyze how this communication, which values the community, can happen in a society of mass, making a relationship with journalism. So we use HELLER (1989) to talk about community and daily practice. In relation to journalism, we based on GENTILLI (2005). The issue of citizenship, in turn, will be portrayed from MANZINI-COVRE (1993), which shows the citizenship as the right to life in the full sense, a right that must be collectively constructed.