Maiuhi Mayuka: comunicação comunitária e educomunicação com jovens indígenas de Oiapoque

Abstract

This memorial presents the workshop “Community communication and combating misinformation” that took place as part of the training of a group of young indigenous communicators in Oiapoque, in the far north of Brazil, held between the 16th and 20th of June 2022, in the Galibi village, situated in the Galibi Indigenous Land. As a theoretical scope, community communication supported the development of training processes capable of strengthening collective identity, promoting community participation, and highlighting the importance of popular communicators of communities and possible future new indigenous leaders. Faced with the lack of representation in the media, or the erasure of indigenous narratives occupying public space by mass media, community communication is a political assumption capable of promoting empowerment and marking the (re)existence of historically oppressed groups from discussions about the democratization of communication, using agendas that interest and represent a community. To conduct the workshop, i chose educommunication as a methodology due to its theoretical-practical composition of the interface between education and communication. The pedagogical perspective of the approach areas was directed according to political, critical, and collective formation; It is essential for creating popular communicators, based on the relevance of the community, in its identity and territorial contours. The workshop training employed practical communicative techniques and activities as well as multimedia materials to promote autonomy in content production and preservation of memory.