Media and governance in Latin America : toward a plurality of voices /

This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight int...

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Other Authors: Orchard, Ximena, 1976- (Editor), Garcia Santamaria, Sara, 1984- (Editor), Brambila, Julieta, 1986- (Editor), Lugo-Ocando, Jairo (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why media pluralism matters for democratic governance / Ximena Orchard and Sara Garcia Santamaria
  • Beyond pluralism : communication rights and civil society in Latin America / María Soledad Segura
  • Towards a journalism-other as a paradigm of Latin American journalistic cultures within the framework of the decolonial turn / Martín Oller Alonso and María Cruz Tornay Márquez
  • How to incorporate Latin American communication studies into Northern/Western circles? Reflections on academic pluralism as co-production / Florencia Enghel and Martín Becerra
  • Democracy as corruption : the news media and the debunking of democracy in Brazil / Afonso de Albuquerque and Juliana Gagliardi
  • Media in authoritarian contexts : a logics approach to journalistic professional resistance in Cuba and Venezuela / Sara Garcia Santamaria and Virpi Salojärvi
  • The elite echo-chamber : media visibility as an intra-elite political resource / Ximena Orchard
  • A trajectory of Caudillo Press, journalism, and the authoritarian dilemma in Venezuela / Edmundo Bracho-Polanco
  • Commenting on disaster : news comments as a representation of the public's voice / Magdalena Saldaña
  • Indigenous media in Argentina : beyond media pluralism, towards media diversity, through 'communication with identity' / Francesca Belotti
  • Counter-hegemonic media production from urban and rural margins in Brazil / Leonardo Custódio and Paola Sartoretto
  • Young Chileans' voices : the fabric of their listening practices while consuming news / Constanza Gajardo León and Tabita Moreno Becerra
  • Conclusion: New maquilas for old powers? The (un)changing face of Latin America's media in the post-pink-tide era / Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Marcela Pizarro and Julieta Brambila
  • Epilogue: Why the digital revolution hasn't made media pluralism irrelevant : communication abundance and concentration / Silvio Waisbord.