Producción radial: Voces ocultas de la minería carbonífera en Socha, Boyacá.

Abstract

This degree project proposes sound production as a tool that shows the abandonment by the state and the socioeconomic conditions in which the mourners of the deceased miners live in Socha, Boyacá. Therefore, being clear about the power of dissemination and persuasion that the media have to inform these realities, it is pertinent to use the radio as a mechanism for social transformation, capable of raising awareness and influencing public opinion. Radio is a direct and effective communication instrument in the transmission of messages and their reception, its coverage is wide and it can reach various places. Within the production, the voices of widows, orphans, mothers of workers who were victims of mining accidents, engineers, regional and local authorities, like-minded neighbors and opponents of the mining industry were included. The feelings and lives were heard in stories that express the dynamics of coal mining in the territory, its functionality and legality, different positions in front of this world perhaps unknown in other settings, in this journey of voices the social consequences are evident and notorious, political and economic that this socio-economic, political and cultural mechanism has brought to the municipality, narrated in detail by the sons of a metal called carbon.