The ‘Capture’ of Media Systems, Policies, and Industries in Latin America: Concluding Remarks

Guerrero, Manuel Alejandro; Márquez-Ramírez, Mireya

doi:10.1057/9781137409058_17

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“…This phenomenon has as a background the historical power relationships between media organizations and the federal governments: at first, these were characterized by government control and the subordination of media companies. A second moment was marked by symbiotic media-government relationships in the context of the arrival of economic liberalization and the strengthening of mediatization (Echeverría and Rodelo 2021; Guerrero 2014). In this context, the rise of YouTubers is particularly meaningful as a phenomenon as it implies that a growing segment of the audiences are replacing (or at least supplementing) their consumption of—historically market-oriented, government-controlled, and heavily concentrated—Mexican broadcast television.…”

Section: Youtube and Political Entertainment In Mexicomentioning

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Why Can’t We Believe in That? Partisan Political Entertainment in the Mexican YouTube Sphere

Rodelo

2022

Television & New Media

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The YouTube video platform has provided fertile ground for creators outside the journalistic field to produce programs that combine elements of entertainment with information on public affairs. Behind the emergence of these practices lie important trends enabling alternative public discourses and altering the cultural production, but also an environment mainly characterized by the low trust in mainstream news organizations and high ideological polarization that seem to give shape to political entertainment contents—and especially their overt political partisanship. Based on observations of independent political entertainment YouTube channels in Mexico, this study delves into their apparently contradictory intersections with professional journalism and the constraints imposed on their practice by platform affordances.

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Section: Youtube and Political Entertainment In Mexicomentioning

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Why Can’t We Believe in That? Partisan Political Entertainment in the Mexican YouTube Sphere

Rodelo

2022

Television & New Media

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“…(Ramírez and Burch, 2019). Later, the reinsertion of national economies into the global economic and communication order with the return of democracy, brought a model of commercial media that mirrored the American system, creating monopolies and oligopolies that marginalized those alternative media even further (Guerrero and Márquez-Ramírez, 2014). This in turn, has led to a recognition of the impacts of the materiality of modern media communications on the environment (primarily in poor countries) in the form of extraction of raw materials (e.g.…”

Section: A Brief Background On Latin American Communication Scholarshipmentioning

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Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America

Takahashi

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article presents an overview of environmental communication scholarship about and from Latin America. It explores the main trends, developments, and characteristics of this scholarship, and the differences from and connections to scholarship developed in the Global North. Latin American researchers have developed robust and unique contributions to the understanding of communication processes about the environment, some of which can expand epistemic considerations that Global North researchers should consider. The article also reviews theoretical and methodological shortcomings that need to be recognized, some of which are tied to historic and political processes in the region. The article concludes with recommendations to overcome the challenges that scholars face, and to harness existing strengths that could result in the consolidation of international environmental communication scholarship.

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“…In addition, while media systems in Western Europe are shaped by strong public broadcasting (Hallin and Mancini, 2004), Latin American media systems are characterized by being even more commercial than the so called ‘liberal model’ (Guerrero and Márquez-Ramírez, 2014). Such commercialization does not hinder, but can even foster political parallelism.…”

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From preachers to comedians: Ideal types of hate speakers in Brazil

Sponholz

Christofoletti

2018

Global Media and Communication

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This article attempts to develop a theoretical framework in order to understand how the media system has been enabling public figures to use hate speech to enhance their media prominence. The current scenario in Brazil, shaped by a high concentration of (private) media ownership, an economic crisis, deep political polarization, distrust of democracy and the right turn, provides a privileged case for analysing it. In this scenario, public figures preach violence against homosexuals on TV. Black people are insulted and compared to monkeys. Based on Max Weber’s ideal types and Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital, four ideal types have been identified: the hate preacher, the right-wing populist, the media polemicist and the intolerant comedian. The analysis makes it evident that hate speakers tend to be ‘backbenchers’ who guarantee their media prominence (or ‘capital’) through a strongly commercialized media system, particularly on TV and the Internet.

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The ‘Capture’ of Media Systems, Policies, and Industries in Latin America: Concluding Remarks

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

Why Can’t We Believe in That? Partisan Political Entertainment in the Mexican YouTube Sphere

Why Can’t We Believe in That? Partisan Political Entertainment in the Mexican YouTube Sphere

Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America

From preachers to comedians: Ideal types of hate speakers in Brazil

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