Ecuador TV-Teleamazonas: construcción de ciudadanía

Abstract

The topic of the thesis has been developed based on an analysis and evaluation of two Ecuadorian television media, public and private: “Ecuador TV and Teleamazonas”, in order to find out if these two channels are helping to construct the citizenship in the country; as well as, the reaffirmation of different nationalities in the territory; The guaranty of democracy and the shaping of public opinion. Some interviews were conducted to five experienced social communicators for the preparation of the present work. In the same manner, the TV programming of the already mentioned media was reviewed.

After analyzing the data collected from both channels, we discovered that there were some irregularities in their programming: They don’t guaranty democracy, their speeches are addressed; the topics concerning the citizen reaffirmation, shaping of opinion, free access to information and the construction citizenship are being affected, for this reason we suggested the immediate review of the television programming its restoration it.