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Memory and Form in the Latin American Soap Opera

« (…) the public's complicity with the genre is in part due to the soap opera's permeability to the transformations of modern life. Of course, the modernization of customs is disguised by perenn...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 11/06/2008
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Communication, Thinking and Culture (Interview)

« (…) a decisive shift has occurred in the emerging conception of communication as a trans-discipline. Within this new perspective the culture industries and mass communications are identified with...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 10/31/2008
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Cultural Change: The Perception of the Media and the Mediation of its Images

« What is becoming visible in community radios is the new sense the relations between culture and politics acquire when local or barrio social movements assume radio as a public space, a element wh...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 10/28/2008
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Mass Media as a Site of Resacralization of Contemporary Cultures

« If, indeed, the media and religion are coming together, then perhaps it is because they are fundamental cultural mediations of the need felt by the people to transform them into magic, into my...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 10/28/2008
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Communication a Strategic Site for the Debate on Modernity

« The everyday life of the majorities issues a deep challenge to our paradigms because it neither responds to our notions of culture, nor does it allow itself to be so emphatically labelled as u...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 10/28/2008
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Latin America: Cultures in the Communication Media

« After spending a lot of effort on ideological analysis, scholars have begun to ask themselves if the meanings and enchantments these stories offer to the populace, as more than strategies of i...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 10/28/2008
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Identities: Traditions and New Communities

« As a demarcation between an ‘us’ and a ‘them’, every identity implies the temptation to turn the other into an enemy who threatens my own (personal and group) identity. Therefore, in order to res...
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  • mediaciones.net published this 10/28/2008
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