Media and information literacy, social pedagogy and freedom of expression with egress from the prison system

Abstract

Mobilizing fundamentals of Social Pedagogy and Media and Information Literacy practices committed to promoting freedom of expression of the prison system egress, the research investigated the potential of AMI for the socialization process of those experiencing a moment of return to society outside prisoners. Therefore, the construction and analysis of empirical data were supported by the action research method. The investigation took place in the Social Inclusion Program for Graduates of the Prison System - PrEsp, in the city of Uberaba / MG, through workshops mediated with and with employees who addressed the construction of a newspaper called “Jornal do Desabafo.” The newspaper production was the dialogical path chosen to oppose the hegemonic discourse on the stage of symbolic disputes produced by media culture. At the end of the activities, evidence was collected that media literacy can be an instrument of Pedagogy to promote freedom of expression with graduates from the prison system since employees made the newspaper a tool to insert their word and regain this denied right, represented themselves as human beings and broke with stereotypes long associated with egress from the prison system.