Media and Politics in Latin America

Globalization, Democracy and Identity

AvCarolina Matos

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Latin America is an increasingly important geopolitical entity and its nations are emerging as some of the most influential and radical states in the modern world. The media conglomerates which control the television and radio platforms in these countries, such as the Globo organization in Brazil and the Mercurial S.P.A. media corporation in Chile, have great political influence across the region. Here, Carolina Matos contrasts public service broadcasting in Latin America to that in Europe and the UK, engaging with current debates on globalisation and theories of cultural imperialism. She examines the role public media has played in the processes of national development, democratisation and international dialogue across South and Central America, arguing that it can be a powerful tool for political and social inclusion. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Media, Politics and Cultural Studies, as well as those with an interest in Latin American culture. As key polities, such as Brazil and Mexico, begin to flex their economic and demographic muscle, Media and Politics in Latin America is a timely examination of society and politics in the region.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-02-28
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780857721341
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Carolina Matos is a journalist and academic and a former Fellow in Political Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She obtained her PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College in January 2007, with no corrections. Matos has taught and researched in the UK at the University of East London (UEL), St. Mary's College at Twickenham, Goldsmiths and the LSE. She has worked as a full-time journalist in Brazil and the UK for many mainstream newspapers and international agencies including Reuters, Unesco, Folha de Sao Paulo, Tribuna da Imprensa and Globo.com. Matos is also the author of Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil (2008).

Innehållsförteckning

Part One - Frameworks of Comparison for Public Service MediaChapter 1 - The Latin American media system Media and democracy in Latin America: setting out a debateIntroductory approachesMedia democratization across borders Defining an intellectual framework for comparative analysisLatin America: from underdevelopment to globalizationLatin America and global inequalityFrom underdevelopment and colonization to globalization Methodological IssuesEmpirical work and theoretical frameworksSurvey methods Chapter 2 - Public communications and regulation in Latin America The role of the state and broadcasting in the UK and the US Regulation in the US and UK: from FCC to OfcomLatin America media systems: a history of neglect of public communicationsBroadcasting policy and the public media in Brazil Government's policies for the communication sectorConclusion Part Two - Public sphere and the public interest: the role of the state in public service mediaChapter 3 - European public service broadcasting revisited Defining PSB and the public interestEuropean public service broadcasting dilemmasHistory and development of PSB Towards a framework for examining PSBs BBC: from a history of tensions with government to funding challenges PSBs and its relationship to governmentsPSB at a crossroads: challenges in a digital age Conclusion Chapter 4 - Journalism for the public interest and the crisis of civic communications in the UK and Brazil The role of the media and the public interestClassic liberal media theory The conservative perspectiveThe public sphere liberalism modelThe radical democrats' critique The crisis of public communications and quality journalism in the US and UKJournalism cultures in Latin America and the public interest Contemporary Brazilian journalism Conclusion Part Three - Television, entertainment and the public interest Chapter 5 - Audience perceptions of quality programming and the public media Global and local television culturesTV as a site of resistance TV news and the public sphereTelevision and globalizationBBC and the quality journalism tradition Audiences' interpretations of the media in the UK and Brazil Conclusion Chapter 6 - Television, popular culture and Latin American and Brazilian identity International television flows: from the global media to Latin American broadcastingBrazilian and Latin American culture as hybridity: the national identity controversy Challenges for Latin American integration Television and popular Brazilian culture: the aesthetic of consumerism TV Globo and the history of Brazilian commercial televisionBrazilian television, national identity and audience responses Public (television) journalism formats: from TV Cultura to TV BrasilConclusion Part Four - The Internet for the public interest: the limits and uses of the Web in Latin AmericaChapter 7 - Media and politics in Latin America: political cynicism and the digital divide Representative democracy and the political functions of the mediaMedia and politics: from media effects to political cynicismMedia effects theories Political cynicism or realism?: the state of politics worldwide The digital divide in Latin America and the challenges for information knowledge Conclusion Chapter 8 - Mediated politics in the 2010 Brazilian electionsPolitical campaigning and modernization practices in the UK and Latin America Political trends and scandals in BrazilThe media and the 2006 presidential race The role of the Internet and gender politics in the 2010 campaignThe benefits of networked politics Gender politics, blogging and the presidential dispute Conclusion Part Five - Media democratization in Latin America: towards a politics for national development and 'alternative' globalization General perspectives Cosmopolitan democra