Da Garganta do Diabo à Cidade de Deus: Trajetos de uma etnografia entre a antropologia e a pesquisa-ação

Este artigo tem como objetivo contribuir para o debate sobre experiências de participação e ação social a partir de pesquisas antropológicas em interseção com a pesquisa- ação. Para tal, será apresentado um relato etnográfico sobre A notícia por quem vive, um jornal comunitário da Cidade de Deus, favela da Zona Oeste do Rio de Janeiro. Por mais de 6 anos moradores dessa favela e pesquisadores da UFRJ estiveram envolvidos em torno deste jornal a partir de um projeto de extensão. A análise terá como foco as relações entre os dois grupos cuja história teve um fim emblemático quando o primeiro deles decide romper com a UFRJ. Tomando este rompimento como ponto de partida, a finalidade é refletir sobre limites e potencialidades nas interações entre universidade e outros setores da sociedade, apontando para a importância de um olhar relacional sobre o tema e para a necessidade de repensar formas de pactuação e aproximação com aqueles com os quais pretendemos estudar.Palavras-chave: Antropologia. Etnografia. Pesquisa-ação. Favela. Extensão. From the Devil's Throat to the City of God: paths of an ethnography between anthropology and action research Abstract: This article aims to contribute to the debate on experiences of participation and social action from anthropological research at the intersection of research-action. To this end, an ethnographic report will be brought about A notícia por quem vive, a community newspaper from Cidade de Deus, a favela in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. For over 6 years a group of residents of this favela and researchers from UFRJ have been involved around this newspaper from an extension project. The analysis will focus on the relations between the two groups whose history had an emblematic end when the first of them decided to break with the university. Taking this break-up as a starting point, the article aims to reflect on limits and potentialities in the interactions between the university and broader sectors of society, pointing in its conclusions to the importance of a relational look on the subject.Keywords: Anthropology. Ethnography. Action research. Slum, Extension.

Media Control On Corruption In Local Goverment ; Create Clean And Justice Government In South Sulawesi Province (Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Era of Regional Autonomy)

This study aims to determine the role of community newspaper in carrying out its oversight function of corruption in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. The type of research used is the content analysis and in-depth interviews with several key informants, including the mayor, the attorney general, the police, non-governmental organizations, and newspaper publishers. The unit of analysis is four local newspapers namely Pare Pos, Palopo Pos, Radar Bone and Radar Selatan. These four newspapers were published outside the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Makassar. Data analysis used the Single Factor Analysis of variance (ANOVA) or one-factor ANOVA (One Way ANOVA) test. The findings of the study show that: (1) the media has a role in carrying out its oversight function of corruption in government institutions in South Sulawesi, although this is not solely because of the media, but also the regulation and supervision carried out by the government through the bureaucratic path, (2) The portion of community newspaper coverage of corruption is quite large compared to other themes. However, judging from the tone of the news in general, it is still nuanced with information, and there has not been much investigated reporting. (3) Judging from the frequency of the coverage of these four newspapers, the Palopo Pos Daily and Radar Bone Daily showed a trend in reporting corruption issues, while the Pare Pos and Radar Selatan Daily tended to focus more on public service issues, for example waste, road, drinking water, electricity and traffic problems. However, statistical analysis showed that the difference was not significant.

Escaping the news desert: Nonprofit news and open-system journalism organizations

This case study examines the social institutional influence on how a nonprofit community newspaper conducts newswork. Utilizing both in-depth interviews and participant observation, the data illustrate how the government, the audience, donors and advertising impact news construction processes. The results are analyzed through both management and media sociology theories. Finally, the authors elucidate how nonprofit news organizations can optimally operate as an open-system (or organism), allowing for all peripheral social institutions to impact newswork without losing any autonomy over the journalism.

Traces and Spaces: Jews and/in the City of Edinburgh

This chapter relates the discussions of the previous three chapters to the present-day geography of the city of Edinburgh. Memories of early- to mid-twentieth century Jewish life in the Scottish capital form the basis for the exploration of the urban geography of Jewish Edinburgh. The memoirs of David Daiches, the second son of Salis Daiches and prominent literary scholar, take centre stage in this journey into the city’s Jewish past and its markers in the present cityscape. Additional evidence is drawn from published memoirs such as Howard Denton’s The Happy Land, anecdotal articles from the community newspaper The Edinburgh Jewish Star, and observations during the recently piloted walking tours ‘Jewish Edinburgh on Foot’. Thus the city of Edinburgh emerges as a space filled with traces of Jewish life, actively recalled by residents and increasingly physically marked in the landscape as landmarks and related stories are narrated and re-narrated.

Impact of Promotional Events and Routes of Access on OurDigitalWorld’s Digital Newspaper Collection

A site traffic analysis study of 24 newspaper sites from OurDigitalWorld’s (ODW) digital newspaper collection and the Ontario Community Newspaper (OCN) aggregate site was completed between 2016 and 2018. Digital newspapers provide access to past and current heritage news, vital statistics, and newspaper clippings. Securing grants from government agencies is essential for local heritage organizations to launch, build, and maintain their digitization initiatives in order to ensure the continuity of local culture and heritage of the past to people of the future. Thus, assessing the impact of (e.g. site usage, Web presence) and routes of Web access to digital newspaper collections is important to determine promotional strategies to increase usage and awareness of the collections. Recommendations were made for ODW, public libraries, and heritage organizations to increase the Web presence and awareness of ODW’s digital newspaper collection and to educate users about the various uses of the newspaper sites. Keywords: Digital newspaper collections, site traffic analysis, web presence, user awareness, user education

Community Newspaper as a Tool for Community Development: A Readers’ Perception Study ofIdikelethuNewspaper in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa

This paper evaluates readers’ perceptions of Idikelethu newspaper as a tool for community development, particularly in Alice, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Data was collected from two focus group discussions that were held in the areas where Idikelethu newspaper has high readership rates. The findings revealed that development-related issues such as health awareness, education and community safety, among others, are regularly addressed by this community newspaper. Based on the findings and analysis of data, this study concludes that Idikelethu newspaper contributes in many ways to the development of its readers and Alice community in general. It is anticipated that the findings of this paper will play an important role in assisting Idikelethu and other community newspapers to function better as agents of community development.

Black power print

This photographic essay focuses on the cover art of a wave of black radical periodicals which emerged in the United States during the 1960s to shed light on the intersections between Black Power, graphic design and black print culture. By examining the graphic design and artwork employed by ‘little black magazines’ such as Liberator, Soulbook and Black America, we can see the origins of a Black Power visual aesthetic which was most memorably rendered through the work of Emory Douglas and the Black Panther community newspaper during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In turn, I argue that such cover art can be understood as just one example of the visual intersections which emerged between black radical activism and black print culture in the United States during the years following World War II.