Peruvian Infotainment: From Fujimori's Media Dictatorship to Democracy's Satire

Alonso, Paul

doi:10.1111/blar.12408

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“…Infotainment is difficult term in addressing how it plays with human attention and attitude. For the purpose to define and confine infotainment two approaches has been discussed by scholars, which differs in methodology but allocate identification of the goals and significance of the phenomenon for political communication, public information and the democratic process (Jebril et al, 2013;Marinov, 2020;Alonso, 2016;Bastien, 2018). Some scholars defined infotainment as news and current affairs programs deep in comedy, fun, music, art, satire, imitations, cartons, sketcetrahes, to get audience interest instead of presenting it in cultural way (Gonzalo et al, 2014;Fatima, 2017;Bolin, 2014;Boukes et al, 2015).…”

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Effects of Urdu Infotainment Programs on Pakistani People: Entertainment, Cultural and Vulgarity Concerns

Safdar,

Raza,

Javed

2024

JTM

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Introduction: Infotainment is the term to entertain the public as well as to inform. Infotainment programs include shows based on funny analysis; parodies and moral issue based comedy to keep amuse the spectators. This research study explored the ‘Effects of Urdu Infotainment Programs on Pakistani People.’ The basic purpose of this study was to know about the effects of Pakistani well known infotainment programs on society.Methods: Study was conducted under the light of ‘Uses and Gratification Theory’ perspectives and method of survey was adopted and well-structured self-designed questionnaire used for data collection. Population of study was Punjab Province, Pakistan and respondents were selected from six districts selected from three parts of the province that is South, Central and North Punjab of Pakistan on the basis of available and convenience including males and females. Data was collected from (N=519) respondents.Findings: Findings of the study showed positive and significant relationship among the variables. The study accomplished that infotainment programs have enormous effects in providing entertainment among public. Respondents demanded more infotainment programs to reduce their complexities.Originality: Furthermore study concluded that one of three hypothesis that is infotainment programs as source of entertainment supported and two hypothesis that is infotainment programs role in promoting culture and vulgarity not supported.

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Effects of Urdu Infotainment Programs on Pakistani People: Entertainment, Cultural and Vulgarity Concerns

Safdar,

Raza,

Javed

2024

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The Politics of Illusion: The Collapse of the Fujimori Regime in Peru

Bentin¹

2018

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Peru approached the twenty-first century a polarized country. In the year 2000, with increased authoritarian control over the legislative and judicial branches along with constitutional reforms paving the way for his re-reelection, President Alberto Fujimori campaigned for a third term in office. His main electoral opponent, Alejandro Toledo, along with opposition leaders, spearheaded massive demonstrations in Lima accusing the government of repression, corruption, drug trafficking, and electoral fraud. Opposition figures were joined by grassroots social movements, unions, students, and human rights activists who opposed the regime's repressive and corrupt practices, which included by now reports of torture and extrajudicial killings. When Fujimori first became president a decade earlier he had inherited a country ravaged by widespread poverty, hyperinflation, nearly depleted foreign reserves, a growing narcotics trade, and two armed terrorist groups: the MRTA (Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement) and the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso). Both were on the offensive across the country, the Shining Path most prominently, planting car bombs in the capital, kidnapping and killing civilians, and besieging towns and villages across the country. Looking for a way out of economic and terrorist violence, Peruvians were faced with two options in 1990: Alberto Fujimori, an ex-university president and agricultural engineer of Japanese descent, and Mario Vargas Llosa, a white, upper-middle-class novelist and liberal intellectual. Though Fujimori was less well-known, many Peruvians saw Vargas Llosa's center-right coalition as a repackaged version of the same traditional political groups that had lead the country into crisis. Fujimori would appear much like Hugo Chávez later in Venezuela, a populist outsider ready to challenge the traditional party system. Many saw Fujimori's succinct rhetoric as refreshing when contrasted with Vargas Llosa's elaborate speeches, especially since the former president, Alan García, who fled the country in 1992 on corruption charges, was also well-known for his loquacious disposition.

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