About

RadarCultura is a Padre Anchieta Foundation’s experimental project that aims to promote public participation in its broadcasting system – Rádio Cultura Brasil AM, Rádio Cultura FM, TV Cultura, specifically. The main idea is to explore interaction and social moderation tools available on the website to stimulate conversation between users and Foundation crew.

The project started with Rádio Cultura AM, now called Rádio Cultura Brasil. Since December 17th 2007, part of the radio set list is composed by direct interference of users. The initiative made it possible for Rádio Cultura Am’s listeners to interact among themselves and the radio staff in order to build a radio program in real time. The content generated is broadcasted on the linear radio station and also on the internet. 

The program RadarCultura is presented by Teca Lima and goes on air daily, between 3PM and 6PM - Brazilian local time. Teca interacts with the website as she announces  the most voted songs, the playlists collaboratively created and the podcasts sent by users. RadarCultura also broadcasts interviews that hold public participation by a chatroom on the website.

Besides the radio program, the project RadarCultura also promotes multimedia and collaborative coverage for events of social interest. It happened during the Campus Party Brasil (event that gather people interested in technology and social networks) and Virada Cultural  (a 24 hour party where music and cultural presentations take place allover the city of São Paulo). These initiatives gathered the Foundation’s professionals (both from TV and Radio crew) and stimulated citizens to work with them for a collaborative journalistic coverage.

RadarCultura believes in the benefits of the usage of free technology and information.  It is developed on Drupal mainframe and licenses its content by Creative Commons. All the material published may be used and distributed for free, except for commercial initiatives.