Latin Politics, Global Media
The globalization of media industries that began during the 1980s and 1990s occurred at the same time as the establishment of or return to democratic forms of government in many Latin American countries. In this volume of specially commissioned essays, thirteen well-known media experts examine how the intersection of globalization and democratization has transformed media systems and policies throughout Latin America.
Following an extensive overview by editors Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord, the contributors investigate the interaction of local politics and global media in individual Latin American countries. Some of the issues they discuss include the privatization and liberalization of the media, the rise of media conglomerates, the impact of trade agreements on media industries, the role of the state, the mediazation of politics, the state of public television, and the role of domestic and global forces. The contributors address these topics with a variety of theoretical approaches, combining institutional, historical, economic, and legal perspectives.
This book makes an important contribution in bringing together a wide range of essays that address the relation between globalizing media industries and the state in contemporary Latin America. The contributors are very solid, very deeply knowledgeable about the countries they are addressing; this is an impressive assemblage of expertise from across the region.
Elizabeth Fox is Senior Advisor, Health Communications, USAID in Washington, D.C. Silvio Waisbord is Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and Director of the Journalism Resource Institute at Rutgers University.
- Introduction (Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord)
- Chapter One. Local Politics, Global Media (Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord)
- Chapter Two. Transforming Television in Argentina: Market Development and Policy Reform in the 1990s (Hernán Galperín)
- Chapter Three. Mass Media in Brazil: Modernization to Prevent Change (Roberto Amaral; Translated by Silvio Waisbord and Elizabeth Fox)
- Chapter Four. The Triumph of the Media Elite in Postwar Central America (Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus)
- Chapter Five. The Reform of National Television in Chile (Valerio Fuenzalida; Translated by Elizabeth Fox)
- Chapter Six. The Colombian Media: Modes and Perspective in Television (Fernando Calero Aparicio; Translated by Elizabeth Fox)
- Chapter Seven. Mexico: The Fox Factor (Rick Rockwell)
- Chapter Eight. Mexico and Brazil: The Aging Dynasties (John Sinclair)
- Chapter Nine. The Transitional Labyrinth in an Emerging Democracy: Broadcasting Policies in Paraguay (Aníbal Orué Pozzo)
- Chapter Ten. Peruvian Media in the 1990s: From Deregulation to Reorganization (Luis Peirano; Translated by Elizabeth Fox)
- Chapter Eleven. Television and the New Uruguayan State (Roque Faraone; Translated by Silvio Waisbord)
- Chapter Twelve. Venezuela and the Media: The New Paradigm (Jose Antonio Mayobre)
- References
- Index
