Dear colleagues
Apologies for cross-postings.
We are pleased to announce that the book “Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Global Media Policy and Business Series) is out.
More details here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/media-systems-and-communication-policies-in-latin-america-manuel-alejandro-guerrero/?K=9781137409041
For the past four decades, key institutional and political changes have greatly impacted media systems and communication policies across Latin America. Two contrasting yet overlapping developments are observable: on the one hand, the increase and continuity of high levels of media concentration prompted by market-oriented policies and a historical collusion between media and (authoritarian) political elites like in Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Peru or Colombia. On the other hand, in the past 10 years we have also witnessed a trend allegedly intended to reverse such patterns of media concentration: a reemergence of the State’s interventionist role in promoting, shaping, administering and controlling communications policies and media reform –often for the benefit of private interests— as in countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina or Ecuador. However, despite their claims, none of these trends has fully achieved pluralism and diversity nor guaranteed freedom of speech or journalism quality. Instead, both private and state-run media systems continue to be captured by political and economic interests in varying degrees and operated within the same context of clientelistic relations and discretional, uneven application of regulation and the law.
Despite some democratic advances in the political landscape and ad-hoc regulations and legal frameworks in some Latin American countries, is the glass half-full or half-empty in regard to media, communication and cultural policies that guarantee freedom of speech, widespread access to information and the right to communication? Are legal frameworks and media policies effectively working towards the development of politically plural and socially diverse media systems? What is the stake of local, regional and global dimensions, institutions and actors in shaping media and communication policies in Latin America? What is the contribution of this region to the understanding of global media policy?
"Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America" addresses these questions with new insights and a proposed theoretical framework that functions as the prevalent model of media and communications in the region: the “captured liberal model”. The chapters --authored by established and emerging scholars from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela-- share a common thread: the various formal or informal means of intervention and capture of journalism, media systems, communication and cultural policies.
About the Editors
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, PhD, is Professor of Communications at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies and Media Theory at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Communications Policies and Media Systems in the Age of (anti) Neoliberal Politics
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez and Manuel Alejandro Guerrero
1. Latin America Media and the Limitations of the 'Globalization' Paradigm
Silvio Waisbord
2. The 'Liberal-Captured' Model of Media Systems in Latin America
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero
3. In Search of a model for the Colombian Media System Today
Catalina Montoya Londoño
4. Media Systems and Political Action in Peru
Javier Protzel
5. The Complex Relationship Between the Media and the Political System in Argentina: From Co-Option to Polarization
Jorge Liotti
6. Pluralism, Digitalization and the Contemporary Challenges of Media Policy in El Salvador
José Luis Benítez
7. Media and Politicians in Guatemala: A Marriage That Will Last Until Money Do Them Part
Silvio René Gramajo
8. The State in Pursuit of Hegemony over the Media: The Chávez Model
Andrés Cañizález
9. Clashing Powers in Bolivia: The Tensions Between Evo Morales' Government and the Private Media in Bolivia
Víctor Quintanilla
10. State Intervention and Market Structures: the New Overview of Argentinian Audio-Visual Sector
Guillermo Mastrini, Martín Becerra and Santiago Marino
11. Public Service Broadcasting and Media Reform in Brazil in Comparative Perspective
Carolina Matos
12. Globalization and History in Brazil: Communication, Culture and Development Policies at the Crossroads
César Ricardo Bolaño
13. The Publishing Industries in Ibero-America: Challenges and Diversity in the Digital World
Stella Puente
14. The Global Notion of Journalism: a Hindrance to the Democratization of the Public Space in Chile
Rodrigo Araya
15. Post-Authoritarian Politics in Neoliberal Days: Revising Media and Journalism Transition in Mexico
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez
16. The 'Capture' of Media Systems, Policies and Industries in Latin America: Concluding Remarks
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez
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