Media and Intercultural Dialogue: Between the Potential for Integration and Conflictual Challenges - A Critical Approach

Abstract

This paper addresses the problematic issue of cultural plurality and diversity within the broad media environment, acknowledging that cultural media does not only reflect the media hegemonies occurring within a cultural environment or a single society. When cultural differences among its segments are sharp, it ultimately preserves social cohesion among its members, regardless of differing customs, traditions, or dialects. Cultural media takes on another form - internal - through communication exchanges among citizens themselves, as well as those who have interacted with other cultures at some point in their lives, such as immigrant communities with different cultural patterns or citizens born abroad. Alternatively, the effects of parallel education adopted by foreign communities and missions within the same country.