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Communication in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Communication in Latin America

The twelve essayswritten exclusively for this publication - examine either an aspect of the mass media in the region or the media in a particular country during a number of stages of its political development.

The Mass Media and Latino Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 547

The Mass Media and Latino Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Latin-American population has become a major force in American politics in recent years, with expanding influences in local, state, and national elections. The candidates in the 2004 campaign wooed Latino voters by speaking Spanish to Latino audiences and courting Latino groups and PACs. Recognizing the rising influence of the Latino population in the United States, Federico Subervi-Velez has put together this edited volume, examining various aspects of the Latino and media landscape, including media coverage in English- and Spanish-language media, campaigns, and survey research.

Mexican Americans and the Mass Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Mexican Americans and the Mass Media

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Praeger

This book reports in detail the procedures and findings of project CASA (Communication and Spanish-Speaking Americans)--the most comprehensive, programmatic esearch effort to focus on Mexican-Americans and mass media. Media usage, access, credibility, gratifications, sources of information, and content preferences about a variety of media (from TV to comic books) were accessed. Focus group interviews with hispanic community leaders and with local newspaper publishers were also conducted, in addition to content and readability analyses of the local daily newspaper portrayals of Hispanics.

The Media In Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Media In Latin America

Looks at important media systems in Central and Latin America. This book includes media history, organization, structure, the interrelationship of media and state and the relationship between media, culture and society. It focuses on an aspect of the media specific to each country, eg soap opera in Brazil and violence against journalists in Chile.

LatinX Voices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

LatinX Voices

LatinX Voices is the first undergraduate textbook that includes an overview of Hispanic/LatinX Media in the U.S. and gives readers an understanding of how media in the United States has transformed around this audience. Based on the authors’ professional and research experience, and teaching broadcast media courses in the classroom, this text covers the evolving industry and offers perspective on topics related to Latin-American areas of interest. With professional testimonials from those who have left their mark in print, radio, television, film and new media, this collection of chapters brings together expert voices in Hispanic/LatinX media from across the U.S., and explains the impact of this population on the media industry today.

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media provides comprehensive coverage of the evolution and issues surrounding portrayals of social groups within the mass media of the United States. Focuses on past and current mass media representations of social groups Provides an overview of key theories that have guided research in mass media representations and stereotyping Discusses the impact new media has on representation and how technology is giving a new voice to various social groups Includes a chapter on how mass media industries are addressing diversity, complete with specially-commissioned interviews with media professionals Offers helpful supplementary features such as a glossary, questions for reflection, suggestions for projects related to diversity in mass media, and online resources for both instructors and students Accompanying website provides a glossary, links to related sites, recommendations of films to watch in the classroom, ideas for research projects, and an instructor's manual with sample syllabi

Latin American Popular Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Latin American Popular Culture

  • Categories: Art

Explores a wide range of cultural phenomena to examine both national symbolic orders and national/global tensions resulting from a climate of conflicting economic and political ideologies.

Making Hispanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Making Hispanics

How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics. She uses an organizational lens and traces how activists, bureaucrats, and media executives in the 1970s and '80s created a new identity category—and by doing so, permanently changed the racial and political landscape of the nation. Some argue that these cultures are fundamentally similar and that the Spanish language is a natural basis for a unified Hispanic identity. But Mora shows very clearly ...

Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1688
Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1608

Library of Congress Subject Headings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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