Essay for building democracy through communication in Timor-Leste
International Journal of Development Research
Essay for building democracy through communication in Timor-Leste
Received 11th April, 2023; Received in revised form 16th May, 2023; Accepted 03rd June, 2023; Published online 30th July, 2023
Copyright©2023, Martinho Borromeu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This essay aims to observe the particularities of communication and politics, as well as to explain its concepts from a modern perspective of mediatization and democracy, based on renowned authors in their areas of study, such as Aristotle, Kant, Lasswell, Habernas, Sartori, De Fleur & Ball-Rockeach, Gomes, McQuail, Rogers, among others. Studies that will open new horizons for principles will help Timor-Leste to understand and establish guidelines for the inclusion of their communities and culture, with the aim of inclusive democratization of the Timorese people in their new Nation-State. Building democracy in a new country is not an easy task and the exact foundations for this constitution are not always available. For this reason, studying these concepts and understanding the problematization that involve them will open horizons for the structural conduct of policies that can be implemented in the country, taking into account the communication technologies that can be used in this endeavor.