[ecrea] New Book: "Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America"

We are pleased to announce that the book “Media Systems and 
Communication Policies in Latin America” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 
Global Media Policy and Business Series) is out.

More details here: 
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/media-systems-and-communication-policies-in-latin-america-manuel-alejandro-guerrero/?K=9781137409041


For the past four decades, key institutional and political changes have 
greatly impacted media systems and communication policies across Latin 
America. Two contrasting yet overlapping developments are observable: on 
the one hand, the increase and continuity of high levels of media 
concentration prompted by market-oriented policies and a historical 
collusion between media and (authoritarian) political elites like in 
Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Peru or Colombia. On the other hand, in 
the past 10 years we have also witnessed a trend allegedly intended to 
reverse such patterns of media concentration: a reemergence of the 
State’s interventionist role in promoting, shaping, administering and 
controlling communications policies and media reform –often for the 
benefit of the government— as in countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, 
Argentina or Ecuador. However, despite their claims, none of these 
trends has fully achieved pluralism and diversity nor guaranteed freedom 
of speech or
journalism quality. Instead, both private and state-run media systems 
continue to be captured by political and economic interests in varying 
degrees and operated within the same context of clientelistic relations 
and discretional, uneven application of regulation and the law.

Despite some democratic advances in the political landscape and ad-hoc 
regulations and legal frameworks in some Latin American countries, is 
the glass half-full or half-empty in regard to media, communication and 
cultural policies that guarantee freedom of speech, widespread access to 
information and the right to communication? Are legal frameworks and 
media policies effectively working towards the development of 
politically plural and socially diverse media systems? What is the stake 
of local, regional and global dimensions, institutions and actors in 
shaping media and communication policies in Latin America? What is the 
contribution of this region to the understanding of global media policy? 
Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America (Palgrave 
Macmillan, 2014) addresses these questions with new insights and a 
proposed theoretical framework that functions as the prevalent model of 
media and communications in Latin America: the “captured liberal model”. 
With c
ontributions by established and emerging scholars from Argentina, 
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru 
and Venezuela, the common theme found across the case studies is that 
there are various formal or informal means of intervention and capture 
of journalism, media systems, communication and cultural policies—from 
overarching states, political institutions and actors to private 
interests. The chapters thus address the way in which current 
conceptions of journalism and its practices, as well as market-oriented 
vis-a-vis state-protected policies fail to guarantee pluralism, 
communication rights and diversity.


About the Editors
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, PhD, is Professor of Communications at 
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Journalism 
Studies and Media Theory at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

Table of contents:
 Introduction: Communications Policies and Media Systems in the Age of 
(anti) Neoliberal Politics
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez and Manuel Alejandro Guerrero

1. Latin America Media and the Limitations of the 'Globalization' Paradigm
Silvio Waisbord

2. The 'Liberal-Captured' Model of Media Systems in Latin America
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero

3. In Search of a model for the Colombian Media System Today
Catalina Montoya Londoño

4. Media Systems and Political Action in Peru
Javier Protzel

5. The Complex Relationship Between the Media and the Political System 
in Argentina: From Co-Option to Polarization
Jorge Liotti

6. Pluralism, Digitalization and the Contemporary Challenges of Media 
Policy in El Salvador
José Luis Benítez

7. Media and Politicians in Guatemala: A Marriage That Will Last Until 
Money Do Them Part
Silvio René Gramajo

8. The State in Pursuit of Hegemony over the Media: The Chávez Model
Andrés Cañizález

9. Clashing Powers in Bolivia: The Tensions Between Evo Morales' 
Government and the Private Media in Bolivia
Víctor Quintanilla

10. State Intervention and Market Structures: the New Overview of 
Argentinian Audio-Visual Sector
Guillermo Mastrini, Martín Becerra and Santiago Marino

11. Public Service Broadcasting and Media Reform in Brazil in 
Comparative Perspective
Carolina Matos

12. Globalization and History in Brazil: Communication, Culture and 
Development Policies at the Crossroads
César Ricardo Bolaño

13. The Publishing Industries in Ibero-America: Challenges and Diversity 
in the Digital World
Stella Puente

14. The Global Notion of Journalism: a Hindrance to the Democratization 
of the Public Space in Chile
Rodrigo Araya

15. Post-Authoritarian Politics in Neoliberal Days: Revising Media and 
Journalism Transition in Mexico
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez

16. The 'Capture' of Media Systems, Policies and Industries in Latin 
America: Concluding Remarks
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez





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