At least two important demographic changes will occur in the United States in the future: the
growth of the Hispanic population and the growth of the second and third generations …

This article examines the globalization of the telenovela format in relation to issues of
adaptation, proximities, and national identities. As a case study of glocalized telenovelas, it …

Political economy is but one of the fields from which scholars of popular communication
draw knowledge, methods, and theories. For researchers focusing on commercial artifacts …

Telenovelas have been considered the predominant popular genre on television, the most
widely available and popular national medium, in Brazil, for more than 30 years (Straubhaar …

This essay examines representations of US–Latino identity on the ABC television program
Ugly Betty. The analysis argues that the show articulates a tension between ethnic …

Television content has traditionally been associated with the cultural identity of a given
territory, although in an increasingly global world, this relationship is under debate. From a …

• Consumed in over 130 countries, telenovelas are media products particularly suitable for
the examination of the dialogue between media, culture and society. In 2003—4 …

El melodrama y su relación íntima con la forma en que se produce el tejido de las
relaciones sociales, políticas y culturales en Latinoamérica ha sido objeto de estudio …

MeThods The necessity for television scholarship to address its subject on multiple registers
is inherent in the design of the medium itself. Television–or for that matter film, streaming …

This study examines the fate of the development model of public broadcasting in the face of
rapid global media commercialization. Using the Indian broadcaster Doordarshan as an …