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Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America
Silvio Waisbord
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*Winner of the AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize 2017* Social movements throughout contemporary Latin America are successfully influencing and shaping media policy. In this highly original, detailed, and in-depth study, Silvio Waisbord and Maria Soledad Segura scrutinize the goals, tactics, and impact of civic media movements across the region, demonstrating the full extent of media activism on domestic policy and politics. Media Movements goes beyond simple conceptions of 'the national' versus 'the global' to reveal the complicated process of media policy-making, and to evaluate the significance of local political elites and citizens, global actors, and ... Read more
*Winner of the AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize 2017* Social movements throughout contemporary Latin America are successfully influencing and shaping media policy. In this highly original, detailed, and in-depth study, Silvio Waisbord and Maria Soledad Segura scrutinize the goals, tactics, and impact of civic media movements across the region, demonstrating the full extent of media activism on domestic policy and politics. Media Movements goes beyond simple conceptions of 'the national' versus 'the global' to reveal the complicated process of media policy-making, and to evaluate the significance of local political elites and citizens, global actors, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783604623
SKU
V9781783604623
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About Silvio Waisbord
Maria Soledad Segura is professor at Facultad de Ciencias Sociales and Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicacion of Universidad Nacional de Cordoba and is a researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas of Argentina. She edited Los medios sin fines de lucro entre la Ley Audiovisual y los decretos. Estrategias, desafios y debates en el escenario 2009-2015 (2016) ... Read more
Reviews for Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America
`A hugely important, unusually accessible and beautifully written book. It provides perhaps the most comprehensive and robust account that I have come across of the impact of civil society actions on media policy environments and is of interest to readers well beyond Latin America.' Des Freedman, author of The Contradictions of Media Power ... Read more