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Media and Politics in Latin America: Globalization, Democracy and Identity: 52
Author(s): Carolina Matos (Author)
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848856121
- ISBN-13: 9781848856127
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Media and Politics in Latin America sheds light on the confusing, obscure, but very important discussion about media regulation and public media that has been intense in many Latin American countries. Through a solid theoretical framework and a comparative analysis between two major cases, Brazil and the United Kingdom, Carolina Matos shows that the aspirations for public media are still alive and strong as a way to reach a more democratized media environment in Latin America. Matos is a rising star among the best scholars in the field of Latin American Media Studies. –Professor Rosental Calmon Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism & UNESCO Chair in Communication and Director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of Texas at Austin
Carolina Matos is an outstanding scholar of Latin American media. Her applied comparative method, including an accomplished analysis of the contrasting media systems of Brazil and the United Kingdom, yields a unique and profound insight into the potential for public sphere(s) television across both commercial and state funded or supported media. This is absolutely required reading for critical scholars and students of international and South American media, and of public sphere television. –Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Director of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
We have long needed a comprehensive, in-depth survey of Latin American media that comes from someone who has mastery of all the relevant languages, theories, and settings. Now it’s arrived! Carolina Matos has produced an instant classic. —- Toby Miller, Distinguished Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside
Carolina Matos is an outstanding scholar of Latin American media. Her applied comparative method, including an accomplished analysis of the contrasting media systems of Brazil and the United Kingdom, yields a unique and profound insight into the potential for public sphere(s) television across both commercial and state funded or supported media. This is absolutely required reading for critical scholars and students of international and South American media, and of public sphere television. –Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Director of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
We have long needed a comprehensive, in-depth survey of Latin American media that comes from someone who has mastery of all the relevant languages, theories, and settings. Now it’s arrived! Carolina Matos has produced an instant classic. –oby Miller, Distinguished Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside
‘wide-ranging and well-organised… informative and thought-provoking… It is an excellent combination of thorough academic research and passion for the cause being advocated.’ –Mark Dinneen, LSE Review of Books
We have long needed a comprehensive, in-depth survey of Latin American media that comes from someone who has mastery of all the relevant languages, theories, and settings. Now it’s arrived! Carolina Matos has produced an instant classic. –oby Miller, Distinguished Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside
