We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report
government corruption on their front page during the period 1998–2007 and correlate them …

This article rethinks the concept of the mediatization of politics from a culturalist perspective,
rebuilding the concept through five arguments: the first two are focused on the symbolic …

This article calls for a critical examination of the media politics of civic society in new
democracies. The analysis discusses the media policies of populist administrations and the …

The long-lasting hegemonic rule of President Hugo Chávez not only involved significant
rearrangements in the control of political power in Venezuela but also shifts in the way its …

Media policy is a contentious and highly political issue worldwide. In established
democracies, the most heated debates nowadays revolve around the pertinence to more …

O conflito entre os meios de comunicação e as demais instituições políticas é um dos traços
mais comuns da acidentada e bicentenária construção democrática na América Latina …

This edition of the Journal of Latin American Communication Research (JLACR) discusses
topics pertaining post-coloniality, journalism, race and gender. The double volume puts …

Since first winning elections in 1998, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez became one of
the most vocal leaders in the international arena to oppose the US and western neo-liberal …

This text analyzes two main trends in political communication. First, and as theoretical
foundation, we review what is commonly referred to as media‑or communication centrality in …

Este trabajo forma parte del inicio de una investigación más ambiciosa que estoy llevando a
cabo en la Universidad de Queensland (Australia) sobre la ecuación populismo-Chávez …