A Agenda da Democratização dos Meios de Comunicação no Brasil: uma análise do Projeto de Lei de Iniciativa Popular (PLIP) – Lei da Mídia Democrática

Abstract

The historical guidelines of Brazilian groups and social segments that defend the so-called "democratization of the media" are composed of denunciations about the concentration of media ownership, lack of plurality and diversity in the media. In 2013, the National Forum for Democratization of Communication (FNDC), which is the main civil association that brings together the demands for communication rights in Brazil, has drafted a Popular Initiative Law (PLIP) - a Law of Democratic Media - with the objective of change the legal norms by which media operate, including the regulation of articles of the 1988's Constitution. This dissertation sought to analyze the proposal of law, identifying the aspects, perspectives and objectives of regulation present in that document. The general scope of the research consists, therefore: in a first chapter of the review of communication policies implemented in Brazil and Latin America, in the temporal cut from 2003 to 2013; a second chapter that realizes an analysis of the trajectory and actions of the FNDC, with special focus on PLIP; and a third chapter that interprets the project of law as a strategy to fight for recognition as proposal in Axel Honneth's notion of recognition.