TELEVISION AND RURAL LIFE: A SYMBOLIC MAP OF THE RECEPTION IN VISTA ALEGRE / TELEVISÃO E COTIDIANO RURAL: UMA CARTOGRAFIA SIMBÓLICA DA RECEPÇÃO EM VISTA ALEGRE

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2007

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This paper intends to record the results of research in Vista Alegre, a place in rural Santa Maria Madalena, a 10,840 inhabitant Municipality located in the mid-northern region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The study attempts to draw a symbolic map of the reception of television discourse among some rural farmers` families in this community which was served with electricity and received television broadcast in 2001. The idea is to understand how identities and social relations are modified and reestablished within this specific context; i.e., a rural community which is far from the Municipality of origin, where there is no commerce and the only buildings that differ from the rural houses are those of the Municipal School and the headquarters of the Church of the Assembly of God. The research does not consider a specific TV program as reference but rather, individual preferences and thus, tries to individualize, under the assumption that resistance may challenge the homogenization postulate which treats everyone in the same way. In a world which intends to be growingly connected, more globalized, it`s precisely the differences that get inclusion processes moving. It`s about checking the possibility of regarding different interpretations of products aired on television, a glance that may contribute to the inclusion of complexities in the communication process.

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globalizacao globalization television diferenca reception difference recepcao televisao

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