Políticas culturais, indicadores e comunicação pública = Cultural policies, indicators and public communication

Abstract

The proposal of the study is to problematize the production and communication of public information and the cultural indicators configuration seeing the development of instruments and new shapes of availability and interaction in the government practices. The paper aims to articulate the cultural policies, cultural indicators and public communication and to present a new interpretative proposal to the cultural indicators configuration from a case study in Portugal. Concluding, the study points out that through the practices of Public Communication, the indicators (i) are recognized while communicational act that (ii) enhance the tools of transparency and accountability about the government entities