The International History of Communication Study


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The International History of Communication Study maps the growth of media and communication studies around the world. Drawing out transnational flows of ideas, institutions, publications, and people, it offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the global history of communication research and education. This volume reaches into national and regional areas that have not received much attention in the scholarship until now, including Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East alongside Europe and North America. It also covers communication study outside of academic settings: in international organizations like UNESCO, and among commercial and civic groups. It moves beyond the traditional canon to cover work by forgotten figures, including women scholars in the field and those outside of the United States and Europe, and it situates them all within the broader geopolitical, institutional, and intellectual landscapes that have shaped communication study globally. Intended for scholars and graduate students in communication, media studies, and journalism, this volume pushes the history of communication study in new directions by taking an aggressively international and comparative perspective on the historiography of the field. Methodologically and conceptually, the volume breaks new ground in bringing comparative, transnational, and global frames to bear, and puts under the spotlight what has heretofore only lingered in the penumbra of the history of communication study.




The Media in Latin America


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"Ably edited, this volume offers an unusually wide-ranging collection of well-informed chapters by experts from across the region. For those who want to understand the current realities that shape media performance from the Gulf of Mexico to the Tierra del Fuego, here is the ideal starting-point." Professor Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, UK "For those of us in the area of Latin American studies, this text comes to fill a gap in the field, both in terms of teaching and research." Charles Jones, Centre of Latin American Studies,University of Cambridge, UK "More than an introduction, it provides a comprehensive insight into the modern Latin America media landscape." Ramesh Jaura, Chairman of the Global Cooperation Council and Euro-Mediterranean coordinator of the IPS News Agency The media's role as a mechanism of control throughout Latin America has become increasingly sophisticated. Many repressive elements of the dictatorship periods have remained in place or have mutated into more subtle means of censorship and control. Media owners and political elites are more than keen to use the media's increasingly prominent role in framing politics in the region, in order to pursue their own agenda and interests. This book provides a comprehensive and critical overview of some of the most important media systems in Latin America. Drawing on original and critical essays from some of the most prominent authors in the field, the author approaches the subject with a country-by-country analysis, exploring the most relevant aspects of the media in each society. The essays cover: Media history Organisation The interrelationship of the media and the state Media regulation and policy and ownership Broadcast media Film, music, advertising and digital media The Media in Latin America is valuable reading for students of media and journalism studies.




Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean


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This book presents pioneering research that is designed to show, from a qualitative and ethnographic perspective, how new information and communication technologies, as applied to the school system and to local governance initiatives, merely reproduce traditional pedagogical approaches and the dominant forms by which power is exercised at the local level. The studies thus constitute points of departure for further thinking about the need to promote an Internet culture based on the social application of a OC right to communication and cultureOCO and an OC Internet right, OCO that will permit the establishment of true citizen participation and free access to knowledge, with due regard to personal and individual rights such as those of privacy and intimacy."







Pensamiento comunicacional latinoamericano


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El Catedrático brasileño José Marques de Melo —el más prestigioso comunicólogo de América Latina— produce con este libro una obra capital para el estudio del pensamiento comunicacional latinoamericano, fruto de décadas de investigación y de un detenido examen de la acción permanente del poder. Los textos que componen esta obra fueron viendo la luz entre 1967 y 2007. «Se trata de una producción dispersa, fragmentada y de difícil acceso, quizás porque fue difundida en revistas científicas destinadas a públicos especializados, o porque fue diseminada en las actas de congresos y simposios, circulando en comunidades académicas cerradas o círculos intelectuales restringidos.» Por todo ello, multitud de profesores de toda América, Portugal y España, que recomiendan las lecturas de Marques de Melo en sus universidades, incentivaron al autor a reunir en una antología retrospectiva las reflexiones hechas a lo largo del tiempo sobre las diversas contribuciones latinoamericanas a la teoría de la comunicación. «Reuní los escritos en dos bloques temáticos que traducen la confrontación que polariza el campo académico de la comunicación; condicionado a su vez por el aparato político dominante, o situado bajo el control del estamento intelectual hegemónico. En otras palabras, oscilando entre el poder y el saber.» La primera parte de esta obra pone el énfasis en el amplio universo de la política, documentando toda la segunda mitad del siglo XX e interpretando sucesos ubicados en las dos coyunturas definidoras del periodo, la guerra fría y la globalización. La segunda parte se restringe al ámbito puramente académico, rescatando las tendencias notables en los dos espacios que brindan identidad a tales comunidades cerradas: la enseñanza y la investigación. «Contribuir al fortalecimiento de la autoestima latinoamericana es la verdadera intención de este libro.» En palabras del comunicólogo mexicano Mario Nieves, Marques de Melo nos desvela «el saber construido por sus predecesores y contemporáneos a lo largo de sucesivas generaciones.» En resumen, este libro es un notable ejercicio de reflexividad sobre el saber y el poder en el ámbito del pensamiento latinoamericano en comunicación.







De certezas e ilusiones


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Teorías, estudios, trayectos - Cultura, cultura popular, mediaciones - Identidad, modernidad, globalización - La dominación imperialista y la transnacioalización.