Democratização dos latifúndios da mídia: perspectivas de um direito à comunicação na sociedade pluralista

Abstract

This research aims to examine the incompatibility of the concentration of media in large conglomerates with the ideal of democratic pluralism, brought in Brazilian society after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988. Initially, the implications of an oligopoly communicative system points to the society as well as a discussion of how the media has played a central role in shaping public opinion. Still questions the traditional approach that is given to the concept of censorship, which, in this conception, the state figure commonly as the sole repressor of agent communicative rights. Also investigates the concept in building the right to communication and how this has been claiming from the civil society mobilization for democratization of the media, performing, in this study, although the constitutional approach to this right. Finally, we present the draft law of popular initiative of the electronic media, proposed by the National Forum for Democratization of Communication (BDNF) through the campaign to express freedom, which exemplifies the demands for democratic pluralism in the media system.