[Commlist] new book: When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism: Cautionary Tales from Venezuela's Recent History

Book Announcement

When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism: Cautionary Tales from 
Venezuela's Recent History (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies)
ISBN: 978-0-367-61616-8 (hbk);978-1-003-10572-5 (ebk)
Publisher: Routledge (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies)
Editors: Ezequiel Korin ((ekorin /at/ unr.edu)) & Paromita Pain 
((paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com))

This book provides a transversal scholarly exploration of the multiple 
changes exhibited around Venezuelan media during the Chávez regime. 
Bringing together a body of original research by key scholars in the 
field, the book looks at the different processes entailed by Chavismo's 
relationship with the media, extending their discussion beyond the 
boundaries of the specific cases or examples and into the entire 
articulation of a nearly-perfect communicational hegemony.

It explores the wide-ranging transformations in the national mediascape, 
such as how censorship of journalistic endeavors has impacted news 
consumption / production in the country to the complexities of 
Venezuelan filmmaking during Chavismo, from the symbolic 
postmortem persistence of Chávez to the profound transformations 
undergone by telenovelas, from the politically induced migration of 
online audiences to the reinvention of media spaces for cultural 
journalism as forms of resistance.

Table of contents:
- Introduction: entering the forest without noticing the trees (Ezequiel 
Korin & Paromita Pain)
- Two films: a rhizomatic connection (Arturo Serrano)
- Short-form documentaries, cyber activism, and resistance by Venezuelan 
filmmakers (Concepción Cascajosa-Virino & Bárbara Barrios Barreto)
- Asymmetrical information warfare in the Venezuelan contested media 
spaces (Iria Puyosa)
- Rebellious audiences: information platform migration and use of 
WhatsApp in a tyrannized society (Carmen Beatriz Fernández)
- From riches to rags: the decline of Venezuelan telenovelas (Carolina 
Acosta-Alzuru)
- Status of institutional advertising in Venezuela during 1999–2018 77 
(Agrivalca Canelón S.)
- The return of the Caudillos in the digital age – changing hegemony and 
Media Caesarism: continuities and changes in the news media landscape 
under the Chavismo (Jairo Lugo-Ocando & Andrés Cañizález)
- Chávez’s eyes: an iconic presence in the Venezuelan political 
communication (Max Römer-Pieretti)
- Between resistance and reinvention: cultural diffusion in Venezuelan 
media (Moraima Guanipa)

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