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This article analyzes social media engagement when elections are adjudicated to one of the contending parties. We extend existing models of political dialogue to explain differences in social media engagement (i.e. time-to-retweet ) when users support the winner or losers of an election. We show that users who support the winning candidate are more...
The safety of journalists is one of the most formidable challenges for press freedom and democracy around the world. The problem is the result of the juxtaposition of various forms of violence that break journalists’ sense of security and autonomy – the ability to control and decide the parameters of their work. Threats to safety drive journalists...
This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight into the extent to which questions about media plural...
The global phenomenon of trolling of journalists lays out the ambivalent consequences of news interactivity and the risks of digital publicity. The push for digital publicity made journalists more exposed to attacks amid rising digital hate and the populist demonization of the news media. The negative impact of trolling reveals important blind spot...
Rising numbers of online attacks against journalists have been documented globally. Female, minority reporters and journalists who cover issues interwoven with right-wing identity anchors have been primary targets. This trend reflects growing forms of mob censorship linked to the demonization of journalists and the press by populist leaders. Based...
In this article, we propose to study news flashpoints. Flashpoints are bursts of news attention that are unique to the networked news environment, in which various forces vie to influence public discourse, blurring traditional boundaries between journalists, publics, activists, and various other forms of strategic communication. They are sudden and...
This article introduces the concept of adjudication to define the act of granting or denying ownership of an outcome to individuals or groups in social media. We extend existing models of political dialogue to explain differences between winners and losers when elections are adjudicated. We use Twitter data on three elections in Argentina, Brazil,...
Cette journée d’étude se propose de profiter de la venue de Silvio Waisbord (Université George Washington, Editor-in-chief du Journal of Communication) en tant que professeur invité à Sciences Po Toulouse pour explorer une des thématiques qu’il a récemment étudié (notamment dans : News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City, Routledge, 2017) en rass...
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The consolidation of digital journalism has brought about new forms of news production, distribution and use that clash with the progressive promises of post-industrial news many imagined not so long ago. False news and misinformation overshadow the contributions of digital journalism to democracy. How do virtuous forms of journalism h...
Digital journalism is the networked production, distribution, and consumption of news and information. It is characterized by networked settings and practices that expand the opportunities and spaces for news. Digital journalism is the outgrowth of new ecological conditions for the circulation of news content in contemporary society and the crumbli...
We discuss two points raised by the articles in this special issue, which are related to our previous work on media movements in Latin America. First, we analyze the dimensions of data activism in the region. Recent experiences in Latin America suggest two types of data activism differentiated by goals and spheres of action: social data activism an...
The professional practices of Argentine journalists reveal the multiplicity of factors that impact journalistic culture. The results of the national study for the global project Worlds of Journalism offers evidence that the type of media organization in which journalists work does not generate different working conditions or respond to alternative...
Here I propose that the phenomenon of “fake news” is indicative of the contested position of news and the dynamics of belief formation in contemporary societies. It is symptomatic of the collapse of the old news order and the chaos of contemporary public communication. These developments attest to a new chapter in the old struggle over the definiti...
In this paper, my interest is to map out central arguments in recent studies of mediated activism, identify blindspots, and call for a sociological approach to link the study of media activism to a broad conception of social change. On a subject that brings together various disciplines and fields of inquiry, a sociological sensitivity to multiple f...
Here I propose an ‘elective affinity’ between populism and post-truth communication. Trends in public communication, specifically the breakdown of the twentieth century mass media order and the consolidation of disaggregated mediated spheres, lay the ground for populist politics. The upsurge of populist politics is symptomatic of the consolidation...
Probing widely circulating truisms has been a hallmark of Michael Schudson’s work on the press, citizenship, and democracy. Schudson has eloquently warned us about misreading the past to criticize the present, and invited us to recognize advances in news and democracy during the past half century. His work has poked many normative convictions under...
In this paper, we analyze the uses of Twitter by populist presidents in contemporary Latin America in the context of the debates about whether populism truly represents a revolution in public communication – that is, overturning the traditional hierarchical model in favor of popular and participatory communication. In principle, Twitter makes it po...
Media sociology is fragmented in myriad lines of research anchored in analytical and theoretical concerns from across sociological thought and other social sciences. It is not a coherent, well-defined field of study with shared questions, ontological center, or common institutional roof. It is disaggregated in parallel questions about “the media” s...
Watchdog journalism stands as one of the most important contributions of the press to democratic life. It is identified with reporting that denounces wrongdoing in government and the private sector with the hope of increasing accountability and spearheading positive changes. Although it is commonly associated with the actions of individual reporter...
Media advocacy is the strategic use of the media to promote behavioral and social changes and advance policy initiatives. It aims to use the media to raise awareness and promote critical thinking and debate about specific issues that need public and legislative attention.
For the last quarter century, enthusiasm and fury about globalisation fuelled speculation about the waning of the state. Globalists of various ideological stripes envisioned nothing but its inexorable demise. They were convinced that the myriad forces of globalisation were poised to send states to the museum of Modern Oddities. The ‘modern state’ h...
This article argues that the concept of national media systems, and the comparative study of media systems, institutions, and practices, retains relevance in an era of media globalization and technological convergence. It considers various critiques of ‘media systems’ theories, such as those which view the concept of ‘system’ as a legacy of an outd...
The field of communication and social change is periodically subjected to new questions and directions. Because the field has historically straddled academia and the aid industry, theoretical debates and programmatic directions were symptomatic of shifts in both settings. The current situation is no exception. Recent debates in communication schola...
Para pensar la comunicación en el siglo XXI hay que comprenderla como un campo que habita intensamente una mutación cultural, tecnológica y política. Y por eso hay que combinar y fusionar en otras relaciones, practicar un remix sin centro ni periferia, mezclar en transformación de prácticas y políticas. Este libro lo hacen pensadores de la comunica...
The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the “de-westernization” of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge.
The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Health Communication offer a comprehensive and nuanced survey of the extensive literature on behavior change linked to the improvement of global child health. The contributions are packed with empirical data and findings drawn from an extensive and scattered literature. This is not a small feat c...
The study of media globalization has often tripped over muddled definitions. As an analytical concept, media globalization has proven to be frustratingly flexible and porous. Although it is one of the fundamental ideas of the current age, it remains too ambiguous (Caselli, 2012). The mini-industry of research produced in the past decades has not se...
Republicado com a permissão Marco Roxo da Silva, de Waisbord, Silvio. Media Populism: Neo-Populism in Latin America. In Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Juliane Stewart ad Bruce Horsfield (eds.). The Media and Neo-Populism: A Contemporary Comparative Analysis. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Permissão concedida através do Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Karen AnnFaulk, In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xvi+220, £21.50; €27.00, pb. - Volume 45 Issue 3 - SILVIO WAISBORD
Contemporary populism in Latin America suggests that normative arguments about the relation between journalism and democracy are premised on contrasting models of media democracy. There is no single model of media ethics to offer a single foundation for media democracy. The model represented by the Anglo-American tradition of the liberal press assi...
In Uttar Pradesh, India, in response to low routine immunization coverage and ongoing poliovirus circulation, a network of U.S.-based CORE Group member and local nongovernmental organizations partnered with UNICEF, creating the Social Mobilization Network (SMNet). The SMNet's goal was to improve access and reduce family and community resistance to...
IntroductionUnderstanding Capacity Building: Definitions, Approaches, IssuesCapacity Building in Health Promotion and CommunicationCBS in Health Communication: A Competency FocusWho Should Build and Strengthen Capacity in Health Communication?Building and Strengthening Capacity through Institutionalization of Health Communication at University Leve...
International in scope, The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. Brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wide range of communication appro...
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 role of civic groups in contemporary Latin America. The analysis shows the complex relations between civic actors and governments in processes of media reform. Contra...
This article analyses the relation between investigative journalism and truth, with specific focus on reports of wrongdoing in the Latin American press. Although some forms of popular journalism challenge the traditional distinction between truth and falsity, truth-telling continues to be the master narrative of modern journalism. Journalistic trut...
This article analyzes the strategies and the impact of two ‘media movements’ in Latin America — the experiences of civic coalitions working on media policy reform in Uruguay, and advocacy journalism about tobacco control in Argentina — through interviewing the principle actors involved in these movements and reviewing the literature relevant to the...
Communication is a critical component in assuring that children are fully immunized and that simultaneous immunity is attained and maintained across large geographic areas for disease eradication and control initiatives. If service delivery is of good quality and outreach to the population is active, effective communication--through advocacy, socia...
The Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) has been one of the most ambitious global health efforts in recent times. Social mobilization (SM) has been a strategic component of the PEI. Yet, a close-up analysis of SM dynamics seems to be lacking in the health communication literature. We examine critical aspects of the PEI experience in an attempt to mo...
To assess the challenges in reducing tuberculosis (TB) in prisons in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay and propose ways to address them through communication interventions.
Challenges to two central goals of TB control--early diagnosis of positive cases and successful application of the directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) strategy--were e...
This article analyzes how news management strategies coupled with journalistic conventions affect news coverage of the Asamblea Ciudadana Ambiental de Gualeguaychu in Argentina, a social movement against the establishment of two paper mill plants on the Rio Uruguay. Since 2003, the Asamblea has received wide attention in local and national news. Me...
Após estudos recentes sobre a “teoria do campo” e o “institucionalismo novo” nos estudos sobre jornalismo (Benson, 2004, 2006), a premissa inicial deste artigo é que a imprensa mantém vínculos com três campos externos: os estados, os mercados e a sociedade civil. Os vínculos são formados tanto pelas relações estruturais quanto pelas práticas de faz...
This article offers an explanation for the limited uses of participatory communication in development by taking an institutionalist perspective that examines prevalent notions about communication and organizational uses in international aid institutions. The argument is that institutional goals and dynamics determine the use of disciplinary and the...
International development agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations are increasingly collaborating with local civil society groups in mounting behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions. Even in countries with weakened civil societies, the social capital of local organizations can be a fundamental communication resou...
Although communication has recently gained increased recognition in tuberculosis (TB) control programs, current thinking and practice remains boxed within the epistemological boundaries of the "bio-medical" model. The latter posits that information about transmission and care is crucial to promote early diagnosis and treatment. However, when popula...
A series of rapid assessment visits were undertaken in several countries in West Africa during 2006, including Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, and Cote d'Ivoire, to determine communication capacity and identify gaps in relating information on avian influenza during outbreaks. This presentation will outline the various challenges that were discovered...
In October-November 2006, AED and UNICEF/WCARO carried out community-based participatory action research (PAR) to explore the food security, livelihood and social/ cultural, implications of avian influenza in Burkina Faso and two states in Nigeria. Two communities, one rural and one peri-urban, were engaged in each location, with community members...
The starting premise of this article is that democratic journalism, no matter its specifics, is not viable as long as states are unable to perform key functions that cannot be delegated to other actors. For journalism, an intrusive state is as problematic as a tenuous, chaotic, and absent state. This point has not been sufficiently recognized and i...
The international development community has lately recognized the programatic importance of capacity development. Despite growing attention, a consensus is still lacking on appropriate strategies and interventions to strengthen local capacity for development programs. The CHANGE Project designed and implemented a program to contribute to capacity d...
This article discusses the coming of television to Argentine electoral politics during the last decade. It reviews how political parties and candidates have used television for campaigning. A dynamic and rapidly changing polity chiefly accounts for the fact that television has become a central forum for politicians to go public. The difficulties fa...
Globaliseringen har knyttet verdens tv-industrier tættere sammen. Struk- turelle og institutionelle forbindelser mellem tv-systemer og tv-industrier har skabt en tv-branche, der i stigende grad styres af de samme prak- sisser og mål. Denne dynamik afspejles i tv-formaternes popularitet. På overfladen bidrager den globale udbredelse af tv-formater d...
The Americas 61.4 (2005) 729-730
Analyses of contemporary media in Central America typically range between half-full glass positions that praise the vigor of critical publications and broadcasting stations, and half-empty positions that lament the complicity between the media and powerful interests. To say that the truth lies somewhere in the middl...
Media Power in Central America. By Rockwell Rick and Janus Noreene . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 276. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95 cloth. - Volume 61 Issue 4 - Silvio Waisbord
meet those goals: diagnosis delay and non-completion of treatment. The TB control community has recognized and addressed system components in which behavior is a key issue. Both diagnosis delay and non-completion of treatment are two central behavioral challenges. Patients are expected to seek care and complete treatment. Health care providers are...
Globalization has intensified interconnectivity among television industries worldwide. Interconnectivity happens through structural and institutional linkages among television systems and industries worldwide, resulting in an increasingly integrated global business governed by similar practices and goals. The dynamics are reflected in the popularit...
This article examines several scandals in 1990s Argentina to discuss the linkages between scandals, media, and citizenship. Suggesting that media publicity is central for scandals to unfold, the article examines a particular arms scandal. An institutional approach that considers the role of different political actors in different scandals shows how...
Theories of development communication This chapter explores the scholarship and practice of communication for development and empowerment in the Third World. The exercise of explicating theories, concepts, and methodologies in development communication presents unique challenges. This exploration requires an understanding of key concepts and how th...
Although it is an issue of immediate interest to reporters and press organizations, antipress violence has not elicited a great deal of scholarly attention. While in the context of developed democracies, studies have concluded that violence against the press has significantly diminished in the twentieth century, the situation is markedly different...
List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. What is Scandal?. 2. The Rise of Mediated Scandal. 3. Scandal as a Mediated Event. 4. The Nature of Political Scandal. 5. Sex Scandals in the Political Field. 6. Financial Scandals in the Political Field. 7. Power Scandals. 8. The Consequences of Scandal. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
RESUMEN: El artículo analiza los procesos mas importantes que experimentó la televisión latinoamericana en los ochenta y los noventa. Se presenta un argumento doble: la globalización tiene consecuencias disímiles para las televisiones domésticas debido a que la situación de la industria televisiva varía notablemente de país a país. Estas diferencia...
Different positions have argued that the media have effectively shaped and reshaped national and transnational identities. In light of recent studies showing the complexity of identity-formation processes, however, it is unclear that prevalent arguments convincingly explain the relations between media and identity—whether at the local, national, re...
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Electoral democracies experiencing extreme levels of non-combat violence and economic inequality have received increasing scholarly attention, but the empirical, theoretical and methodological aspects of this emerging research focus continue to need clarity. What does the coexistence of democracy and insecurity of many kinds mean for journalists? How important are societal violence and economic insecurity in relation to other challenges facing journalists? What roles do journalists and news media play in fomenting or restraining physical and economic insecurity? We begin a scholarly exchange to address these questions. Answers are particularly critical in Latin America and the Caribbean, where violence against journalists and levels of inequality can be extreme, but journalists in the global north increasingly face physical safety and economic challenges as well. The group also wishes to share information and exchange perspectives with those working in Africa, Asia and elsewhere as we collectively explore and seek answers to what has become a global concern.
