Creación de una revista comunitaria en el cantón el pan, perteneciente a la provincia del Azuay

Abstract

This project involves the creation of a community magazine in the canton El Pan in order to generate a communicational space that fosters community participation and organization of its inhabitants. To begin the project, a team of fifteen people, who were the executors of community magazine, called Cascarilla, because the exploitation of this plant became for some decades in the source of income for the inhabitants settled Canton. In relation to developing mechanisms it was necessary to conduct training and group work so that the people themselves are the actors to generate the contents of the magazine, in order to reflect their needs, problems, everyday life and the preservation of their traditions. That is, the project emphasizes the participation and pre-feed (feed-forward), where the recipient is active in the information and execution of the medium, in this way, the slogan chosen by the members of the project was: A project from and for the community. With the creation of community magazine we could show that this type of communication helps generate integration and participation that allow foster the development of a community. Thus it verified that community communication projects are mainly aimed at the transformation of reality.