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This article seeks to analyze the bill 006/2018 which prohibited the construction of markets, supermarkets and hypermarkets within a 2km radius of another in the city of Matinhos, in the state of Paraná, Brazil. This fact generated a controversy that caught the attention of the media. and created a popular mobilization because it instituted in practice the sector monopoly in the city where the former mayor would be the biggest beneficiary because he owns a supermarket chain, exposing a form of clientelism that occurs in the municipality. The other bill 1960/2018 is identical to that of supermarkets even in the newsroom, but involves gas stations and was voted the week before this bill, being approved and sanctioned by the chief executive and the law in full force, which called Attention for not having received the same treatment from the media and the population in it will be analyzed the media micropower and its selectivity in relation to events.

This inquiry is a reflection on the graffiti, understanding it as one social practice that allows the citizens attribute new senses for the urban spaces. The graffiters, when leaving yours signatures - 'tags' - in the walls of the city, transforms the public space into private space, for after, transforms them into public, now modified. We made an analysis of marks left for two groups of graffiters in the center of the city of Londrina, Brazil. We observe that these marks interact with each other, establishing a net of senses. The city is transformed into a support where the people (in groups or individually) exercise the construction of yours identities through the establishment of the differences (within the dispute between groups and/or individual for the public) or in the overcoming of disputes ('by adding to the existing graffitis'). The graffiters, when inscribing yours 'tags' in the urban universe, modifies the identity of the city, reconfiguring its landscape.