Percepções e práticas sociais de recepção televisiva: o caso das crianças do distrito de Cuamba, província de Niassa

Abstract

The study has as its theme Social Practices and Perceptions of television reception by children aged between 10-13 years in the rural context. With this theme, we intend to understand and analyze children's social perceptions and practices resulting from the business of television. From a qualitative analysis of composite empirical data, we identify the spaces of sociability of children making use of techniques such as informal conversations in daily life of children, using diaries, writing and observation in the different spaces of sociability, such as school, home and on the way to and from these locations. We worked with 16 children in the 6th grade of Primary School Maguiguane, located in the district of Cuamba, Niassa Province. Data analysis we used two theories of everyday life, the interpretative paradigm of William Corsaro in a cross with the phenomenology, constructivist approach of Reality by Peter Berger and Luckmann David. As a preliminary conclusion, television plays an important role in children's lives in view of its socioeconomic context, and this little screen influences the way of children’s life as social beings and full creative, creating its culture of childhood and making choices in their daily lives. We also note children practices that are recreations of what they see on TV; these practices relate conversations, comments and jokes. It was also found that children perceive the information at their television would of daily life.