Comunicación y cambio social: territorios de sentido en disputa

Abstract

The approach to communication for social change, since 1990, synthesized the bases of the Latin American critical-participatory tradition and reaffirmed ethical-political premises to privilege the dialogued decisions of communities about their collective present and future. This discourse gained strength in the face of the controversy over “development” and the institutionalized co-optation of communication for development. This text analyzes the questions about communication for social change, from the perspective of empty and floating signifiers and the dispute over the provision of meaning to both communication and social change, which finds, in this case, foundations in the critical-participatory interdiscursivity that emerged in Latin America.