ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the potential contribution of academic practices to the training of young people for civic action in the periphery of an Amazonian metropolis. The text presents an account of the Data Firme project, carried out from 2018 to 2020 by a partnership of professors, technicians, and students from the Federal University of Pará. Data Firme used Design Thinking strategies to co-create media practices that disrupted the mainstream narrative, giving visibility to the area’s cultural, social, and economic life and fostering civic movements with the support of digital media; such efforts form a central component of citizenship-building. This organized action resulted in social innovations being introduced in the relationship between community, media, and government.
