FROM MEDIA CONSUMPTION TO THE CREATION OF COMMUNICATIVE ECOSYSTEMS IN HIGH SCHOOL: DIALOGIC APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES

ENFOQUES E PERSPECTIVAS DIALÓGICAS

Abstract

This article investigates how journalistic production practices, articulated with the creation of communicative ecosystems in high school, contribute to processes of authorship and critical formation. The aim of the study is to understand how the production of the school newspaper Ita fostered the development of authorship and critical media literacy among students from a federal public school in Paraíba, Brazil. The action research analyzed how creating the newspaper enabled the appropriation of journalistic genres, the emergence of authorial discourses, and the construction of learning processes grounded in decolonial perspectives. Grounded in Educommunication, the Dialogic Theory of Language, and decolonial approaches, the study shows that, by engaging in the planning, writing, editing, and circulation of a media product, students shift from positions of passive consumption to autonomous communicative practices that challenge hegemonic narratives and expand democratic participation in the school environment. The results reveal transformations in conceptions of writing, in the exercise of media criticism, and in the constitution of communicative ecosystems that strengthen student engagement and collective authorship.