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contra-colonialidade e crítica na educação midiática

Abstract

The article seeks to reflect on the role of media education in the context of issues involving themes such as colonization, colonialities and counter-colonialities. These terminologies are directly related to principles of European rationality that subject other ways of knowing and enclose identities in certain discursive regimes, often stereotyped. We present how reading media products can reveal these instances of oppression and thus indicate critical mediations. The article also intends to establish ways of developing critical readings of media with participatory and active methodologies. To this end, we present the EntreMídias project which, since 2018, has sought to guide students on the importance of media education, in classes that begin in a research laboratory and end in workshops taught by the students themselves. The objective of the article, therefore, is to understand how critical media analysis can show discursive types arising from a colonializing culture, at the same time as demonstrating resistance processes based on diversity and the search for identity issues. As a methodological technique, we use exploratory and descriptive research to understand the concepts covered, as well as to present the reported project. In conclusion, we understand that media education is fundamental to the exercise of citizen principles, since only through knowledge of the media ecosystem is it possible to make, consume, create and disseminate information consistent with reality, against the grain of uninformative and alienating universes.