Comunicação Pública e a Câmara Municipal: a comunicação e a democracia no legislativo da cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is analyzing the contemporary relation between politics and communication, emphasizing concepts of democracy and of Public Communication, in theory and practices. The conceptual approach is made through the exposure and the analysis of fundamentals from relevant authors on the debate about the communicational area s importance to the political exercise. The empirical work, in order to examine the communication in political institutions daily, is produced using a case study about the means of communication elaborated in the Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro - the site, the official diary and the twitter which were observed all over the year of 2010, period when the main responsible for these means the assessor Anette Silva was interviewed and was also made brief visits to all representatives elected. The evaluation of the characteristics of these means is elaborated based on a proposal of aspects and themes appropriated to the Public Communication, with the purpose of collaborating for future studies in the area and of elucidating how principles of this Communication are being neglected in the governmental practice.