Title
Indigenous Amazonians on air: Shipibo–Konibo radio broadcasters and their social influence in Peru
Date Issued
01 June 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Inc.
Abstract
This article describes how Peruvian Shipibo–Konibo people instrumentalize local radio stations to participate in civil society and to become social leaders supported by their communities. The investigational group consisted of Shipibo–Konibo communicators, all of them are men, who work at local radio stations located in the region Ucayali, Amazonas, Peru. The indigenous radio broadcasters interviewed were chosen from the most popular radio stations of Ucayali. Topics in radio programs are politics, corruption, abuse, mishandling, as well as celebrations, traditional holidays, communities’ anniversaries, and other cultural activities. Promoting social demands of their localities has given rise to new generations who now attend university and conduct radio programs in Shipibo–Konibo and Spanish, to communicate their concerns. It is an exploratory type research with a qualitative approach, focused on radio programs that got more local audience in the Peruvian Amazonia.
Start page
93
End page
100
Volume
15
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Medios de comunicación, Comunicación socio-cultural
Etnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85060627438
Source
AlterNative
ISSN of the container
11771801
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus