A globalização da transparência : o papel da comunicação pública na sociedade democrática

Abstract

This paper focuses on the relevance of transparency for the strengthening of democracy and discusses the role of public communication in a postmodern, multipolar, economically and politically interlaced world, by an electronic and global informational and cultural network. The objective is to verify if the portals of transparency on the internet are efficient as channels of information of public interest to the citizens. Through bibliographic research and the adoption of the methodology of Content Analysis, as stated by Bardin (1979), it sought to know the origins of opacity in the political culture of Latin American countries as a way to contribute to its overcoming. In a cut for the Brazilian reality, the main initiatives were identified to foster public transparency at national level and the implementation of actions to set free the State and society strategically from coloniality in public communication as a way of giving global scale to the culture of transparency in democratic society.