The regulation of property of media in the constituent 87/88: monopoly versus plurality of media and information

• Grant number: 11/06542-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Law - Public Law
• Principal Investigator: Carlo José Napolitano
• Grantee: Bárbara Bressan Belan
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project of scientific initiation has the scope to examine the constitutional legal regulation produced during the constituent process in 87/88 regarding the ownership of the media, in order to investigate the constitutional prohibition of monopoly and oligopoly in the ownership of the media. The proposal considers that this prohibition is also, as a consequence, the sealing of monopolization and oligopolization in serving information, assuming a plural and diverse market. In this sense, will be revisited the constituent process to analyze projects and legislative debates that resulted in the current constitutional right of property of the media.