The ‘Captured Liberal’ Model of Media Systems in Latin America

Guerrero, Manuel Alejandro

doi:10.1057/9781137409058_3

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“…While the western donors have supported creating a pluralistic media system in Afghanistan (Barker 2008) and to some extent, the Afghan government has created laws and policies to institute the same, the steady and strong influences of the other actors, not to mention the ebbs and flows of an ongoing conflict, keep the media system-in-flux. Venezuela has been described as one of the several "captured liberal" media systems in Latin America (Guerrero 2014) though this category does not do justice to the shifting political and economic sands Venezuela has been experiencing. Showing how Venezuela under the Bolivarian regime became a mixed authoritarian system, Cañizález (2014) documented how the Venezuelan state pursued an agenda of increasing hegemony over the national media system.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Mitra

Høiby

Garrido

2019

Journalism Practice

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Between 2012 and 2016, UNESCO registered 530 deaths of journalists. They also published a statistic showing that television journalists were the most killed, followed by print media, radio and online journalists. Hinted in this statistics is the need to understand the relationship between the medium through which and in which the journalists produce news and the threats and dangers posed to them. In this article, we discuss this interlinkage and call it medium-specific threats. As examples of this interlinkage, we describe the cases of community radio journalists in the Philippines, photojournalists in Afghanistan and online journalists in Venezuela. Based on these examples from independently conducted studies from very different parts of the world, we make the broader case that while recognizing the prevailing political-economic and socio-cultural factors and forces at work in these media systems-in-flux, investigations of mediumspecific threats to journalists are needed for more nuanced understanding of and thus mitigation of journalists' insecurities.

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Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Mitra

Høiby

Garrido

2019

Journalism Practice

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“…The relationship between media and democracy is far from an intrinsic one. In capitalist societies, media in general is subjected to its logic and in less professionalized media industries, media may be subject to other types of forces, such as political and economic interest groups (Guerrero & Márquez-Ramírez, 2004;Albuquerque, 2012). In that context, it is important that people, constituents, partisans make use of their own channels as a means to provide alternative discourses.…”

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“…The "parliamentary coup" (Albuquerque, 2017, p. 1) was not only testimony of the corruption of the legal and parliamentary systems in Brazil, but was also an evidence of the "captured" media system (Guerrero & Márquez-Ramírez, 2004), hostage to economic and/or political elites. For Albuquerque, it is even worse: a "vivid example" of cases "in which the free press seemingly conspires against the democratic order" (2017, p. 1).…”

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Testimonial tweeting. People’s voice (and eyes) on anti-impeachment protests in Brazil

Santos

2018

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Though the idea of horizontal networked, bottom-up communication processes is present in many discussions of the role of digital media in the context of social movements, not many studies point to the processes behind the creation and publication of authorial testimonial content by regular people, that is, content produced in situ at the heat of the moment whose author is neither media nor political actors. Through 10 interviews structured according to Proulx and colleagues' ICT social appropriation framework (2017), with users that have created and published such type of content on Twitter with the hashtag #ForaTemer in the aftermath of Rousseff 's impeachment in Brazil in 2016. This paper discusses why and how ordinary people take media matters in their own hands as a form of political action, even though it may apparently be dressed up with different communicative functions, such as emulating the pretense neutrality and objectivity of media discourse. Findings point to a convergent media critique as main motivator, followed by the aim to connect the absent and to scrutinize police abuse. The aggregated result seems to point to a manifestation of collective intelligence, characterized by swarm-like logics and alienation from the complete result of the #ForaTemer publications.

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“…Moreover, also each country's specific context should be taken into account. For example in Latin America political parallelism and clientelism have strongly affected the media culture (Guerrero 2014;Hallin & Papathanassopoulos 2002;Mancini 2012;Salojärvi 2016).…”

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The Media Use of Diaspora in a Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Venezuelans in Finland

Salojärvi

2017

Media, Diaspora and Conflict

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The ‘Captured Liberal’ Model of Media Systems in Latin America

Cited by 50 publications

References 13 publications

Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Testimonial tweeting. People’s voice (and eyes) on anti-impeachment protests in Brazil

The Media Use of Diaspora in a Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Venezuelans in Finland

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