Lugo-Ocando, Jairo and Garcia-Santamaria, Sara . Media, Hegemony, and Polarization in Latin America., 2015 In: Media and Politics in New Democracies. Europe in a Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, pp. 265-276. [Book chapter]
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The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between media and democracy through the lenses of the media reforms that many Latin American left-wing governments have undertaken over the last decade, often leading to a mismatch between discourse and practice. In our view, these actions and approaches have offered an opportunity to scrutinize the traditionally elitist and partisan structures of the media in Latin America. In the following paragraphs, we argue that polarization has become an essential trait in the relationship between left-wing governments and the media in Latin America. Furthermore, we suggest that this polarization corresponds to a populist conceptualization of liberal democratic institutions, such as the news media, which remain controlled by the ruling party in the name of the people, reproducing a top down, rather than a truly people-centred democratic culture. The question that arises is whether left-wing governments in Latin America are creating a favourable environment for the democratization of media systems or, as some suspect, simply institutionalizing political control, recycling old clientelar networks, and scrapping pluralism from the agenda.
Item type: | Book chapter |
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Keywords: | Journalism, Polarization, Democracy, Hegemony, Latin America, Freedom of Speech, Journalists, Censorship |
Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HA. Periodicals, Newspapers. |
Depositing user: | Dr Sara García Santamaría |
Date deposited: | 04 Feb 2025 16:44 |
Last modified: | 04 Feb 2025 16:44 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/46374 |
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