[Commlist] Call: Media, Development and Democracy

*Call for Volume: Media, Development and Democracy: historical and 
current connections*

*Editor: Heloisa Pait*

*Deadline: December 15, 2019*

Connections between the emergence of national democracies, economic 
development, and the introduction of mass media have been studied for 
many decades, but there are still missing links in this complex web. In 
1949, Daniel Lerner suggested the existence of a relationship between 
new media and the modern mentality in developing nations. Although much 
criticized, his insights influenced optimistic views of the impact of 
television and the internet around the globe. Here we ask a different 
question: what is the impact of State censorship and material 
restrictions on the press, in countries that have been witnessing 
continuous economic development?

Do restrictions on the functioning of the media in the formative period 
of a nation have long-term impacts on economic development? Looking from 
a different angle, can a limited labor market, with few formal vacancies 
in competitive firms, make literacy less rewarding, discouraging private 
investment in education? How do low literacy rates influence political 
culture and the nature of the public sphere in a modern society? In this 
volume, we would like to examine the multiple relationships between 
economic development, adoption of new media, literacy and education, and 
democratic culture.

We are interested in studies of so-called developing countries, and in 
particular those where there have been restrictions on the printing 
press, such as colonial Brazil and the Ottoman Empire, or which somehow 
differ from the Northern European and North American model of media 
development. We welcome papers using a variety of methods, particularly 
those bridging interdisciplinary gaps. Our goal is to point to new paths 
in the understanding of the challenges to achieving a free and just 
society. We welcome papers that discuss public policy regarding 
educational or economic reforms within that larger investigative 
framework, as well as research on the experience of particular groups. 
Research is particularly welcome on women, the African diaspora, and/or 
Marranos.

The article “Liberalism Without a Press: 18th Century Minas Geraes and 
the Roots of Brazilian Development”, by the editor, which appeared on 
volume 18 of Studies in Media and Communications, further elaborates on 
the possible relations between media, development and the public sphere. 
Please send your inquiries to Dr. Heloisa Pait, 
(heloisa.pait /at/ fulbrightmail.org) 
<mailto:(heloisa.pait /at/ fulbrightmail.org)> with the subject “Emerald Book 
Series”. Submissions should be sent before January 15, 2020.

Editor: Heloisa Pait is a tenured professor of sociology at the São 
Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho. She has written on 
Brazilian telenovelas, on the role of new media in political action and 
on higher education in Brazil and in the United States. Heloisa Pait is 
an active participant of public debates; she has recently launched 
Revista Pasmas, an online women’s magazine. Her published articles are 
listed in the Lattes platform at www.bit.ly/helopaitLattes 
<http://www.bit.ly/helopaitLattes>.

Contributing editor: Renata Nagamine is a postdoctoral fellow in the 
Graduate Program in International Relations at the Federal University of 
Bahia, Brazil. She received her PhD in international law from the 
University of São Paulo Law School. Nagamine has worked as a researcher 
at the Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and was a 
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow with the Laureate Program in 
International Law at the University of Melbourne in 2018. Her areas of 
interest are international humanitarian law, human rights, and political 
theory.Her published articles are listed in the Lattes platform at 
http://lattes.cnpq.br <http://lattes.cnpq.br/>.


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