Social sustainability and journalistics practices

In case of radio Comunitaria La Lechuza, San Juan, Argentina

Abstract

This article proposes to account for the relationship betwenn the views of the sustainability of communitu media associated with socio-critical paradigms, anda the sociology of news production,originally linked to funcionalist studies of communication. We start from the hypothesis that it is posible to review and problematize routine studies from allusive point of view to the exercise of counter-information journalism.

From a socio-critical approach, the text aims to describe how the social and territorial insertion of Radio Comunitaria La Lechuza de San Juan, Argentina, its form of articulation with the community, with organization, with other stations or network in the sector andt with the State influences the journalistic practices developed by those who make up the station.

The research , of a qualitative nature and of a descriptive-relational scope,adrdresses the object from an ethnographic approach,using various techniques for recording information.

Much of the field work was carried out during the government of the Alianza Cambiemos, which represented a significant setback in terms of human and communication rights, in particular, which significantly affected the country’s community media.