When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism: Cautionary Tales from Venezuela’s Recent History (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367616173 ISBN 13: 9780367616175

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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.

Allowing readers to engage not only with the particular case studies or exemplars presented, but with the underlying cultural, economic, political, societal, and technical aspects that come into play and which allow the extrapolation of this body of research onto other national or international contexts, this book will be an important resource for scholars and students of journalism, communication, media studies, and politics.

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About the Author

Ezequiel Korin is Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada ― Reno

Paromita Pain is Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada ― Reno

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367616173
• ISBN 13: 9780367616175
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154
• Editor: Korin Ezequiel, Pain Paromita