De clandestina à educativa : embates comunicacionais na legalização de uma rádio comunitária

Abstract

Based on a case study of Rádio Favela, located in Belo Horizonte (MG), this paper analyzes three communicational clashes investigated through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis, aiming to understand the process of seeking legitimacy in a community radio station. Although it was legalized in 2001 under an educational regime, Rádio Favela built a legacy of decades in the fight for community broadcasting. As a theoretical framework for our analysis, we will revisit the works of researchers such as Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann, Erving Goffman, and Norman Fairclough. The results of this investigation indicate that, contrary to what occurs in commercial media, for community radios, the path to legitimacy does not follow a linear, continuous, or serialized perspective but rather a spiral form. Social crises serve as opportunities for community radios to challenge the hegemony practiced and maintained by commercial media, as they question the prevailing ideology and open gaps for transforming the idealization of communication vehicles and their representations. In the case of Rádio Favela, these transformations are supported or driven by the station's ability to reframe its vulnerabilities and experiences, producing resistance.