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'Ably edited, this volume offers an unusually wide-ranging collection of well-informed chapters by experts from across the region. For those who want to understand the current realities that shape media performance from the Gulf of Mexico to the Tierra del Fuego, here is the ideal starting-point.'Professor Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, UK'For those of us in the area of Latin American studies, this text comes to fill a gap in the field, both in terms of teaching and research.'Charles Jones, Centre of Latin American Studies,University of Cambridge, UK'More than an introduction, it provides a comprehensive insight into the modern Latin America media landscape.'Ramesh Jaura, Chairman of the Global Cooperation Council and Euro-Mediterranean coordinator of the IPS News AgencyThe media's role as a mechanism of control throughout Latin America has become increasingly sophisticated. Many repressive elements of the dictatorship periods have remained in place or have mutated into more subtle means of censorship and control. Media owners and political elites are more than keen to use the media's increasingly prominent role in framing politics in the region, in order to pursue thei

Author

Jairo Lugo-Ocando

Publisher

Maidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York: McGraw Hill/Open University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780335222025

Subjects

Language Learning, Sociology, Literary Fiction