Saúde, comunicação e nanotecnologia: o papel do debate público para a expansão da cidadania

Amongst thematic networks, strategic laboratories and master and doctorate scholarships awarded by the National Program of Nanotechnology, an actor of great relevance can be distinguished due to its relative absence: the lay people, once more relegated to a secondary agent in Brazilian democracy, although citizens’ views have been increasingly recognized all over the world as an indispensable factor to the science and technology public policies which are intended to be democratic. Whereas Europe and United States have incorporated public values and feelings in the policy planning, Brazil is still waiting for opportunities of public participation in the definition of research guidelines. This paper examines contemporaneous demands of science communication to the strengthening of citizenship, aiming to offer contributions to a debate directed to question the present arrangement — of antidemocratic indifference towards the public — adopted in the formulation of public policies in Brazil.

Comunicação pública e relações públicas: sintonia a favor do cidadão

O presente artigo pretende analisar a Comunicação Pública como uma vertente de comunicação focada na construção da cidadania, demarcando-se na contemporaneidade como uma iniciativa à participação do cidadão nos meios de comunicação. Destacamos, especialmente, o rádio por ser um meio de comunicação de amplo alcance viabilizando espaços de diálogo com o ouvinte, fomentando a reflexão a respeito de conflitos e divergências públicas, ou seja, como um agente gerador de cidadania. Nessa perspectiva faz-se uma conexão entre as teorias de Comunicação Pública em complemento ás teorias e habilidades de Relações Públicas, enfocando a atuação deste profissional comprometido com as questões sociais e como propulsor da cidadania.

Os antecedentes e a luta atual em torno da Conferência Nacional de Comunicação

The ancient struggle for a National Conference on Communication in Brazil, truly representative and with clear opportunities to define new rules to the sector of communication, has been waged for years and was conducted in late 2009. It is proposed to identify the background of the historic struggle for CNC can be perceived in the defense of press freedom and freedom of expression in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most recently in the movements of democratization policy in the 80s and 90s. The research was done by analyzing the direct and indirect official document concerning the establishment of guidelines and the convening of the Conference, and manifestation of civil society and business. 


Ilustração não-digital e digital: um estudo das etapas da produção para otimização da comunicação

This article contains a brief summary of the thesis defended in Visual Poetics, whose title is “Digital and Non Digital Illustration: A Study of the Steps in the Production Process for the Optimization of Communication”. With the detailing of these major items, the mindset of the thesis was the research of the process of digital and not digital production.