Media and Governance in Latin America

Ximena Orchard/Sara Garcia Santamaria : Introduction: Why Media Pluralism Matters for Democratic Governance - Theoretical Debates and Production of Knowledge About Media and Communication in Latin America - María Soledad Segura: Beyond Pluralism: Communication Rights and Civil Society in Latin America - Martín Oller Alonso/María Cruz Tornay Márquez: Toward a Journalism-Other as a Paradigm of Latin American Journalistic Cultures Within the Framework of the Decolonial Turn - Florencia Enghel/Martín Becerra: How to Incorporate Latin American Communication Studies into Northern/Western Circles? Reflections on Academic Pluralism as Co-Production - Media, Politics, and Democracy - Afonsode Albuquerque/Juliana Gagliardi: Democracy as Corruption: The News Media and the Debunking of Democracy in Brazil - Sara Garcia Santamaria/Virpi Salojärvi: Media in Authoritarian Contexts: A Logics Approach to Journalistic Professional Resistance in Cuba and Venezuela - Ximena Orchard: The Elite Echo-Chamber: Media Visibility as an Intra-Elite Political Resource - EdmundoBracho-Polanco: A Trajectory of Caudillo Press, Journalism, and the Authoritarian Dilemma in Venezuela - Technology, Voice, and Participation - Magdalena Saldaña: Commenting on Disaster: News Comments as a Representation of the Public's Voice - Francesca Belotti: Indigenous Media in Argentina: Beyond Media Pluralism, Toward Media Diversity, Through 'Communication with Identity' - LeonardoCustódio/Paola Sartoretto: Counter-Hegemonic Media Production from Urban and Rural Margins in Brazil - Constanza GajardoLéon /Tabita MorenoBecerra: Young Chileans' Voices: The Fabric of Their Listening Practices While Consuming News - JairoLugo-Ocando/Marcela Pizarro/Julieta Brambila: Conclusion: New Maquilas for Old Powers? The (Un)Changing Face of Latin America's Media in the Post-Pink-Tide Era - Why the Digital Revolution Hasn't Made Media Pluralism Irrelevant: Communication Abundance and Concentration- SilvioWaisbord - List of

Ximena Orchard is based at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago (Chile), where she is currently Head of the Journalism Department. She holds a PhD from The University of Sheffield and has published about the mediatization of Chilean political actors, cultures of political communication and journalistic practices.

Sara Garcia Santamaria is Associate Professor at Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain). She obtained her doctorate at University of Sheffield (UK) looking at discourse, media and populism in Latin America. Her research focuses on discourse theory, populism, misinformation and political communication in Europe and Latin America.

Julieta Brambila (PhD, University of Leeds) is a transwoman, media scholar and public official. She is a Communication Officer at the Minister of Finance in Mexico and Assistant Professor at Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Mexico. She has published about press freedom, antipress violence and journalists' safety.

Jairo Lugo-Ocando is Director of Executive and Graduate Education and Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar, and previously served as Associate Professor at the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield. He has extensively published about media representations of poverty and inequality, as well as journalistic practices.