The Academic Master's Degree in Communication at UFS has “Communication and Society” as its area of concentration, with the research lines “Media Products, Processes and Practices” and “Communication, Culture and Politics”.

a) General Objective
The area focuses on the development of research focused on the role of communication in contemporary social life, in all its extension and complexity, as well as the dialectical relations of society with power structures and modes of operation of organizations and media systems, with emphasis on local and regional contexts, and observing the growing centrality of digital information and communication technologies.

b) Lines of Research

Line 1 - Media Products, Processes and Practices - This covers the development and investigation of products, processes and practices related to media phenomena. Its discursive, organizational, normative, operational and cultural aspects are privileged, from perspectives that preferably dialogue with journalism studies, media criticism, consumer phenomena, narratives and visualities of communication.
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Line 2 - Communication, Culture and Politics - focuses on studies of the power relations present in communication phenomena in their social, cultural and political dimensions. It includes approaches to the social appropriation of communication technologies, critical theories of communication and culture, the political economy of communication, and the spatiality of communication in its local, regional and global contexts.

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