When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism: Cautionary Tales from Venezuela's Recent History

by Ezequiel Korin (Editor), Paromita Pain (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a transversal scholarly exploration of the multiple changes exhibited around Venezuelan media during the Chávez regime. Bringing together a body of original research by key scholars in the field, the book looks at the different processes entailed by Chavismo's relationship with the media, extending their discussion beyond the boundaries of the specific cases or examples and into the entire articulation of a nearly-perfect communicational hegemony.

It explores the wide-ranging transformations in the national mediascape, such as how censorship of journalistic endeavors has impacted news consumption/production in the country to the complexities of Venezuelan filmmaking during Chavismo, from the symbolic postmortem persistence of Chávez to the profound transformations undergone by telenovelas, from the politically induced migration of online audiences to the reinvention of media spaces for cultural journalism as forms of resistance.

Allowing readers to engage not only with the particular case studies or exemplars presented, but with the underlying cultural, economic, political, societal, and technical aspects that come into play and which allow the extrapolation of this body of research onto other national or international contexts, this book will be an important resource for scholars and students of journalism, communication, media studies, and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367616175
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2023
Series:	Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ezequiel Korin is Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada -- Reno

Paromita Pain is Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada -- Reno

Table of Contents

1. Two Films: A Rhizomatic Connection
Arturo Serrano

2. Short-form Documentaries, Cyber Activism, and Resistance by Venezuelan Filmmakers
Concepción Cascajosa-Virino and Bárbara Barrios Barreto

3. Asymmetrical Information Warfare in the Venezuelan Contested Media Spaces
Iria Puyosa

4. Rebellious Audiences: Information Platform Migration and Use of WhatsApp in a Tyrannized Society
Carmen Beatriz Fernández

5. From Riches to Rags: The Decline of Venezuelan Telenovelas
Carolina Acosta-Alzuru

6. Status of Institutional Advertising in Venezuela During 1999–2018
Agrivalca Canelón S.

7. The Return of the Caudillos in the Digital Age – Changing Hegemony and Media Caesarism: Continuities and Changes in the News Media Landscape Under the Chavismo
Jairo Lugo-Ocando And Andrés Cañizález

8. Chávez’s Eyes: An Iconic Presence in the Venezuelan Political Communication
Max Römer-Pieretti

9. Between Resistance and Reinvention: Cultural Diffusion in Venezuelan Media
Moraima Guanipa