Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho

Permanent Professor

Associate Professor at Fluminense Federal University, working at the Department of Social Communication, at the Postgraduate Program in Media and Everyday Life (PPGMC) and at the Postgraduate Program in Social Policy Studies (PPGPS). Coordinator of UFF’s Social Communication undergraduate course (2016-2020). Postdoctoral researcher at Madrid’s Carlos III University (2013), has earned a Ph.D. in Social Communication (2005) and a Master’s Degree in Social Communication (1995) from Universidade Metodista de São Paulo. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication (Advertising) from Fluminense Federal University (1992). Adilson is the coordinator of EMERGE – Center for Research and Production in Communication and Emergence and a researcher at COMUNI, a research group based at Universidade Metodista de São Paulo. He is part of the PPGMC’s Applied Research Lab – LaPA. He has been awarded a FAPERJ Young Scientist Grant (Edital Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado, from 2013 to 2016). He is a member of ULEPICC Brazil – the Brazilian Chapter of União Latina da Economia Política da Informação, da Comunicação e da Cultura. He worked as the General Secretary of this association between 2010 and 2014, and he was the President of the same association from 2014 to February 2016. From 2012 to 2016, he was the Vice-Chair of the Community Communication Section of IAMCR – International Association of Media and Communication Research. He is also the author of several books and articles on the following topics: communication policies, democratization of communication, the social appropriation of ICTs, community communication and the digitalization of communication.

Research Projects

Community Broadcasting Policies: the role of policy makers, enforcers and researchers for the strengthening of this sector

Description: This project, unfolded from previous projects that have been developed since 2012, moves through understanding that the broadcasting territory through electromagnetic waves is still decisive in the public sphere conformation and, as such, is still in dispute. Such a scenario starts from the 1970s, when access to production and transmission equipment allowed the development of community broadcast initiatives, enabling relative visibility in national communication policies, but leading to the organization of an entire sector around associations and networks worldwide. Despite this origin and its consequences, community broadcast, as a sector linked to the Community Communication regulation by the State, has been neglected, both in the social and academic circles, due to political and economic limitations related to its viability, in view of the recent technological transformations that form a scenario of transmedia convergence in multiplatform environments. To understand how policy makers, enforcers and researchers in this sector work to strengthen these policies, working with semi-directive interviews with leading social subjects in this process; with documentary research on laws and regulatory projects in the sector, documents from radio and TV community organizations and their constitutive associations; in addition to bibliographic research on the relationship between Community Communication, Communication Policies and Political Economy of Communication, from critical studies on regulatory aspects, sustainability and plurality and diversity in communication systems.

Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1787526384833274
e-mail: acabralrj@gmail.com