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The experience of Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) in which community radios have a fundamental role, is the context for the analysis and problematisation of ideas concerning the right to communication (Peruzzo 2011, Deane 2007), communicative citizenship (Mata 2006) and representation (Fraser 2009). The radios foster conscientisation (Freire 1987), mobilisation and (re)construction of the peasant identity through programming and activities that focus on the exercise of the right to free expression and valorisation of popular cultural manifestations. Furthermore, the movement radios become a channel for dialogue with the local community. They also present conflicts and contradictions, among which are resource scarcity, barriers imposed by the restrictive radiobroadcasting law in Brazil and the transition to digital media. This paper analyses tensions and potentialities of movement radios, which are embedded in the movement's spaces such as rural settlements and schools. Departing from interviews with militant popular communicators the paper intends to discuss and contribute to the development of concepts such as right to communication (Peruzzo 2011), communicative citizenship (Mata 2005) and representation (Fraser 2009). The study demonstrates that the radios exert a mediating function (Couldry 2010) between the movement and local communities and function as a space for learning the exercise of communicative citizenship and right to communicate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analyzing the different representations of Nelson Mandela from the magazine Veja, the most sold in Brazil with an average sale of 1,200,000 copies a week. We observed 188 news stories in which Mandela was mentioned by the magazine, between the years 1978 and 2009. From political prisoner to president of his country, Mandela was being represented in different ways and this research seeks to understand the collective memory that may be resulting from these changes. Who is Nelson Mandela from Here? What values its image loads? How the representations in the magazine have been transformed over the years? Representation will be treated here, departing from the discussion of Stuart Hall, as a place of encounter between language and meaning in a given culture. The magazine Veja will be understood, then, as a place where signs and images represent shared meanings in a society, while at the same time updates or modifies these meanings. Its relationship with the memory will be established from the contributions of Halbwachs, Wertsch and Anderson, who seek to understand the intersections between culture, identity and collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]