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Please join our CAMRI spring seminar in Central London next week: ‘How Progress was ‘sold’ to us: The Mediatization of Development Policy in Latin America’ Jairo Lugo-Ocando [University of Leeds] Date: Thursday, 26.01.2017 Time: 1700-1900 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HT Room: UG04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/selling-progress-the-mediatization-of-development-policy-in-latin-america-tickets-31020750901 This talk looks critically into the media reception of the Alliance for Progress aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. Initiated in 1961 by John F. Kennedy, it was using media with the purpose of selling an idea of development – progress, freedom and modernization – against what was perceived as an imminent communist menace in the region. Kennedy´s administration fully understood the relevance of managing public perceptions by shaping news media accounts of the policy’s efforts. Nonetheless, domestic and foreign media did not follow suit exactly as expected. A historical study of documents from the John F. Kennedy Library offers unique insight into media narratives and explains why development policy afterwards became increasingly mediatized. The talk is based on an archive examination of historical papers and documents, which was made possible thanks to a Theodore C. Sorensen Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Library. Biography: Jairo Lugo-Ocando, PhD is an Associated Professor at the University of Leeds. His main areas of research are poverty, development and the news media and, the use of statistics in news reporting.He is author of several books including The Media in Latin America(Open University/ McGraw Hill), Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (Pluto Press) and more recently, Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of 'Third World' Development (Routledge, 2017) <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Developing-News-Journalism-Coverage-Development/dp/0415621828> among other many academic journal articles and book chapters. Before becoming an academic, Dr Lugo-Ocando worked as a journalist, correspondent and news editor for a variety of news outlets in Latin America and the USA. He supports both Liverpool FC and the Boston Red Sox but does not endorse its owners. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------