商品簡介
Carolina Matos capitalizes on her background as a journalist to provide a thorough review of the Brazilian media's contributions to the democratization process...Specialists will enjoy her thorough analysis of the many roles the media has played in the democratization process, as well as some of the inherent contradictions of these roles. Recommended."---CHOICE
"This book is one of the finest studies on the role performed by the mass media during the Brazilian democratization process in the 1980s and 1990s; it goes far beyond common simplifications and captures the complex and often contradictory universe of the cultural industry in the country at the time." ---Carlos Eduardo Lins Da Suva, former deputy editor-in-chief of Folha de Sao Paulo, director of institutional relations for PATRI, Inc.
Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil investigates the complex relationship between the media and the government in the aftermath of the Brazilian dictatorship. Carolina Matos examines the role of the mainstream press in the democratization of the Latin American nation from 1984 to 2002 and questions the extent to which the communications industry contributed to the creation of wider democratic spaces for debate in the media's public sphere. Through an analysis of key post-dictatorship political and presidential campaigns, Matos reveals the inherent tension between the media and the Brazilian state and illuminates the crucial impact of these campaigns in the formation of power hierarchies in society and politics. An important work that highlights the struggle for the wider inclusion of social and political players in the media's ongoing dialogue on democratization, this volume provides an insightful account of the forms of media that have grown out of the diverse political interests of Brazilian society.
作者簡介
Carolina Matos is a Brazilian journalist and an LSE Fellow in Political Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
