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M. Chavez is a faculty member at the Michigan State University School of Journalism and Manuel
Alejandro Guerrero is Head of the Graduate Program in Communication at Universidad Iberoamericana.
“Introduction” de Manuel Alejandro Guerrero y Manuel Chávez (eds.), Empowering Citizens Through Journalism,
Information & Entertainment in Iberoamerica, Mexico City: Michigan State University – Universidad
Iberoamericana, 2009.
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However, real life does not work much like that since people feel identified and
attached to different languages, institutions, traditions, regions and communities, even
within the same frontiers. At the end of the 20th century, Iris Marion Young published a
seminal article in which she underlines the need for recognizing these differences if we
are to generate a meaningful debate on the concept of citizenship, of a “differentiated
citizenship” (1989). In contrast to the classic liberal view, she argues that:
The attempt to realize an ideal of universal citizenship that finds the
public embodying generality as opposed to particularity, commonness
versus difference, will tend to exclude or to put at a disadvantage some
groups, even when they have formally equal citizenship status. The idea
of the public as universal and the concomitant identification of
particularity with privacy make homogeneity a requirement of public
participation. In exercising their citizenship, all citizens should assume
the same impartial, general point of view transcending all particular
interests, perspectives and experiences. But such an impartial general
perspective is a myth. People necessarily and properly consider public
issues in terms influenced by their situated experience and perception of
social relations. Different social groups have different needs, cultures,
histories, experiences and perceptions of social relations that influence
their interpretation of the meaning and consequences of policy proposals
and influence the form of their political reasoning. These differences in
political interpretation are not merely or even primarily a result of
differing or conflicting interests, for groups have differing interpretations
even when they seek to promote justice and not merely their own self-
regarding ends. In a society where some groups are privileged while
others are oppressed, insisting that as citizens, persons should leave
behind their particular affiliations and experiences to adopt a general
point of view serves only to reinforce that privilege; for the perspectives
and interests of the privileged will tend to dominate this unified public,
marginalizing or silencing those of other groups (Young 1989: 257).
manner to determine who should be given differentiated status (Taylor 1991, Kristeva
1993). However, it is still true that today the rights and identities of groups based on
ethnicity, nationalism and other claims are at the forefront of the debate on citizenship.
Theory must help explain reality and not reality accommodate to theory.
Moreover, for the purpose of this book, the most relevant aspects of the debate
on citizenship to be acknowledged relate to the fact that in Iberoamerica people are
precisely in the middle of discovering and/or redefining the dimensions of citizenship.
Taking Young’s perspective, one cannot but realize that in Iberoamerica the dominant
discourse on an ideal universal citizenship is, to say the least, controversial. In some
countries, strong local identities have risen to contest a broader national discourse, as in
Spain. In other countries, the high rates of inequality make one wonder if the dominant
discourses on national unity and citizenship have, at the end, worked to keep the
unbalanced distribution of privileges and benefits, like in many Latin American
countries.
Kymlicka (1995) acknowledges the importance of recognizing the “differences”
in the creation of a new theory of citizenship that enables a framework for diverse
groups to promote their specific cultural traits and identity. He contends that contrary to
the fear that the acceptance of “difference” would endanger liberal democracy, its
recognition is consistent with some modern liberal principles of individual freedom and
justice, and thus would promote incorporation and inclusion without a pretension to
melting. In this regard, and despite the complexity of the debate on citizenship, in this
book we believe there are four basic and minimal elements of liberal inspiration that any
conceptualization of citizenship must have in connection with the media: a) citizenship
encompasses the capacity to question authority (Galston 1991); b) citizenship
encompasses the capacity to engage in public deliberation (Young 2000); citizenship
encompasses the capacity to freely decide the degree of participation in public space
(Merino 1995); and, d) citizenship encompasses the capacity to exchange and obtain
information on public matters (Guerrero 2007). In all these respects, citizenship rests on
information availability, and here is where the media plays a crucial role.
engagement. Here, the media plays crucial roles in a liberal democracy since it is
supposed to at least:
provide citizens with useful information to make their choices and to formulate
their decisions on topics of their concern;
serve as an open forum in which a large diversity of ideas can be posed and are
subject of public debate;
serve as watchdogs against government and corporate abuses and corruption.
In this way, the media become a critical ally to sustain a democratic public life in
which citizens, at least, have the possibility to engage and participate (Ungar 1990;
Michnik and Rosen 1997). However, such an ideal image of the media may not be met
by their actual informational practices, structures and discourses. The cases exposed in
this book show precisely that mainstream media’s informational discourse is not
necessarily engaging different groups in our society. Sometimes mainstream media have
to create new forms of fostering participation and still other times, technology and
entertainment are becoming the vehicles to channel new forms of engagement and
participation for different groups.
What becomes clear is that the association of such ideal roles of the media in a
democracy with the traditional informational aspects of the media, as represented by the
newspapers and the news broadcasts, may not completely hold in these days in
Iberoamerica. In this regard, one has to recognize that linking the ideal roles of the
media to sustain democracy and an engaging citizenry to newspapers and news
broadcasts is nowadays in trouble: everywhere newspapers are losing readership and
news broadcasts are losing audience. In fact, people who watch the news broadcasts and
other traditional political content programs are decreasing in number and getting older
(Mindich 2005).
Traditional media sources of information are losing audiences and readers, and this
trend poses interesting questions on the future of democratic participation and civic
engagement, as we have known them. Among these questions, some that deserve close
examination are: What are the best forms to engage citizens in public life? Are there any
formulas that include communities and citizens? How can the media offer a sustainable
public sphere?
One of the generation risks of inaction is to miss their youth. According to surveys
in many European, North American and Latin American countries, less and less youth
seem to be interested in conventional public life and politics, a space that they mostly
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Forum 1994; Putnam 1995; Bahmueller 1997; Mason and Kluegel 2000; UNDP 2004).
In general, this may be true. Nevertheless, it is also interesting to note that most of the
informational options that have emerged in the last decades in the broadcast media
(CNN, Fox News) seem to say very much the same things as the old ones (ABC News,
CBC News). In a time of declining participation and civic engagement, the question is
then if the media has the capacity to re-engage the citizenry with public issues
deliberation and participation. If so, how can it do it?
degrading and banal forms of representing public life. In brief, discussion on public
matters and entertainment should be kept apart from each other. Perhaps the most
influential work in this regard is Neil Postman’s (1985) Amusing Ourselves to Death, in
which he argues that television formats and rhythm avoid an in-depth discussion of
serious issues and instead it transforms these debates into mere entertainment.
After Postman’s book, many other authors have taken his ideas as a basis to
arrive at quite pessimistic conclusions about the relation between politics and media,
especially, but not exclusively, broadcasting media. Some of the statements argue that
the media cannot provide adequate knowledge to individuals, alienate citizens from the
public debates, diminish people’s interest in politics, cannot inform citizens adequately,
or prevent individuals from being aware of truly important issues (Cappella 2002;
Cappella and Jamieson 1997; De Vreese and Semetko 2002; Gitlin 2003; Hart 1994;
Robinson 1976 and 1977; Scheuer 2000). Though this pessimistic image of the media
has been contested by other works (Pinkleton and Austin 2001; Norris 2000) or, at least,
put into question as an independent variable for political malaise (Guerrero and Hughes
2007). What is evident is that traditional programs and editorial formats that keep the
straight division between those informing (the media) and those being informed (the
individuals) are losing readership and audiences in favor of other media formats that are
considered by their audiences/consumers/readers as more entertaining (Dörner 2001)
and interactive. That is what we have today. In the near future it is not probable that the
citizens will substantially modify their media diet or that the media will disappear as the
main mediator between them and the large majority of information on public matters.
The audiences of programs like Big Brother, the different national versions of
American Idol, and of blogs on these and on sports programs, are by far surpassing in
number the most enthusiastic expectancies any news broadcasts or newspaper could
have when presenting information on public issues. While newspapers and news
broadcasts are losing audiences and readers, programs like Big Brother and American
and Latin American Idol have been able to captivate audiences “into discussion,
participation, creativity, intervention, judging and voting [which are] activities that
would qualify as civic competences if they would be performed in the domain of
politics” (Van Zoonen 2003: 5). Two alternatives seem to surface. Either we take some
elements of these programs as lessons to be learned and used as experiences for change
or we keep on discarding all “heterodox” and nontraditional information formats
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because they seem shallow and banal. As communication scholars, the preference is on
the close study of different formats and interactivity.
When discussing the relation between the media, politics and citizenship, the
area of entertainment becomes an uncomfortable issue since it does not easily fit into
any of the ideal above-mentioned roles that the media should play in a democratic
polity. This is a reason why in many studies on media and politics entertainment is
either left aside, or considered a perverse deviation from the media’s true role as a space
for rational discourse (Zillmann and Vorderer 2000).
However, entertainment conveys strong forms of social representation and
socially accepted values, attitudes, beliefs, prejudice and behavior. In fact, some studies
refer to the relevance of entertainment as a facilitator for social change (Singhal and
Rogers 1999). In this regard, entertainment – which has been downgraded in the studies
that discuss politics and democracy – has a quite relevant role in the conformation of the
collective imaginary and in the ways different versions of the social and the cultural life
of a community are represented.
Entertainment may be an invaluable source to obtain data on how different
social issues and attitudes are perceived, on how dominant and minority groups are
represented, on how discourses on innovation, change, traditions and fears are depicted,
and all these strongly mirror important features of the social, cultural and political life
(Desmond 1994; Potter 2001; Silverblatt 2001). Moreover, more “conventional”
formats of political contents, both on the electronic media and on newspapers are being
complemented, if not replaced, by other formats that connect between information and
entertainment, creating such controversial debates on “infotainment” (Anderson 2004;
Fenton 2005; Wittwen 1995) and “Politainment” (Leggerwie 2000; Dörner 2001). For
some, the adoption of these formats has made these programs and contents more casual
and more stimulating for viewers and readers (Schicha 2003).
However, the question about the sacrifice of content for pure formats remains,
and it must not be underestimated. Adopting only the formats cannot transform a
dumbed-down show into an intelligent program proposal when there is nothing relevant
about the content. And that should be clear. Moreover, not all the adoptions of
innovative entertainment formats on political-content programs have been successful.
Some experiments to adopt reality shows formats on political programs both in
Argentina – El Candidato del Pueblo – and the United States – The American
Candidate on FX – proved to fail dramatically (Van Zoonen 2005). Sticking exclusively
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to entertainment formats may not necessarily be the successful formula producers and
editors are looking for, or the more enlightening forms for public matters debates.
In this regard, key findings are presented in a study of the Hansard Society
conducted by Oxford professor Stephen Coleman (2003) about the possible lessons that
Big Brother could teach those interested in politics in Britain. Coleman argues that:
Parliamentary democracy is not intrinsically tedious; reality TV is not
inherently exciting. But both are mediated to the public in significantly
different ways. A large part of the success of Big Brother is its capacity
to involve the viewer in an interactive process. The viewer becomes a
player in the game, forming judgments about and determining the fate of
the contestants. Interactivity is political. It shifts control toward the
receivers of messages and makes all representations of reality vulnerable
to public challenge and disbelief (Coleman 2003: 19).
What Coleman is arguing is that for politics to become more engaging, and in
many ways closer to people, it requires that politics broaden its accountability through
allowing the citizens more control via a larger interaction between them and politicians.
And the mediators here play a crucial role. But what does “interactivity” mean here?
Coleman takes the definition of interactivity given by Liu and Shrum (2002) as “the
degree to which two or more communication parties can act on each other, on the
communication medium, and on the messages and the degree to which such influences
are synchronized” (in Coleman 2003: 36). Interactivity allows participants to act on
each other and opens up the possibility to enrich the content that is being exchanged.
It is true that entertainment may have to do a lot with banality and that to attract
larger audiences or readership the media has employed some of the most sensationalistic
frameworks to present their contents. However, there are two aspects of entertainment
that cannot be left aside: entertainment has had interesting results when used as a
strategy to design messages intended to generate social change.
As described by Singhal, there are two effects. “First, it can influence members’
awareness, attitude and behavior toward a socially desirable end. Here, the anticipated
effects are located in the individual audience member. An illustration is provided by the
radio soap opera, Twende na Wakatti (Let’s Go With the Times), in Tanzania that
convinced several hundred thousand sexually-active adults to adopt HIV prevention
behavior. Second, it can influence the external environment of the audience to help
create the necessary conditions for social change at the system level. Here the major
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effects are located in the interpersonal and social-political sphere of the audience’s
external environment” (Singhal, et al. 2004: 5-6). The other is that some entertainment
programs have been able to engage their viewers and make them feel inclined to watch,
read and listen, and when complemented with interactive formats, they also have been
able to move their audiences to participate.
The success of these programs is their capability to engage the audiences and
involve them enough to care about the content developments, and make the audiences
feel that “their active participation may affect the outcome” (Coleman 2003: 4). The
levels of engagement and participation of the audiences, for instance, in realities
represents nowadays the opposite trend of what we are witnessing on the political arena,
where individuals are tuning out of politics and diminishing their sense of efficacy. But
any explanation that could be given cannot be simplistically reduced to a discussion on
formats. Instead, a broader picture of media – and multimedia –consumption may be
helpful for understanding these trends better.
Today new communication technologies are deeply changing the landscape of
social interrelations. Mobile phones and electronic mailing are not only getting more
people in touch with each other on a scale never seen before, but also at an unparalleled
speed. This seems to be the key. We send, receive and download communication
contents almost instantaneously either through the computer or the mobiles. We have
become used to instant responses and at times gratifications from a growing supply of
choices of goods and services (Miller and Rose 1997), even in countries with high
disparity of income, like those in Latin America.
However, our political life seems to a great extent disconnected from these
rhythms of 21st century life. It seems that all the interaction and exchanges that
characterize other spheres of life are absent from politics: the level of political
responsiveness is low; participation is, for the majority, limited to voting; political
alternatives are disappearing, since parties tend to converge in a never specified
“political center;” and for the citizens, their feeling of efficacy is diminishing, since
expressing their opinions on particular issues to their representatives is a less practiced
art. In the words of Peter Bazalgette, the chairman of Endemol, UK:
E-mail and mobile telephony have transformed the tenor of our lives.
We answer more emails in a day than we used to receive letters in a
week. We send and accept SMS text messages as quickly. We expect
and enjoy responsiveness to a level of almost instant gratification. But
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we still only vote for the government once every four years or so.
Privately political parties are in tune with this spirit. They poll us weekly
for our views. But publicly the system gives us no power, nor any
official route to express our opinions. Speed, on its own, is not
necessarily a virtue. But our democracy is divorced from the rhythm of
the age (Coleman 2003: 3).
In brief, borrowing a term from Hegel, while today’s Zeitgeist is characterized
by interactivity and growing interconnections that may lead to individuals’ engagement,
politics seems to be far, slow and unresponsive. Nevertheless, this is not a plea for an
unreflective adoption of entertainment formats in politics –nothing could be further
from our aims. What we require is a better understanding of the possibilities offered by
entertainment and interactive formats that with a reasonable skepticism might be useful
to explore different forms for engaging citizens into public issues discourses. Moreover,
we even require a new and broader definition of entertainment in order to conceptualize
it in more positive terms in relation to its possible contributions to public life.
Antonio García Jiménez addresses issues related to sports and the media in
Spain and Latin America in his chapter “Sports and Citizenship: Identities through New
Media.” García Jiménez examines sports and how they relate to citizenship by
providing an overview of the different perspectives used by countries – and regions
within countries on their appreciation to local and national sports. He also presents
some debate on how the media has been able to capitalize on the dependency that sports
have with communities and countries. He explores the context and content of sports
programs as entertainment and how these influence viewers and readers. Garcia Jimenez
sees a process in which sports is a culture and also a business placing tension on
personal and collective identity. He cites examples in Spain and Portugal sports as well
as their impacts derived from their global broadcasting across the continent and
specially in Latin American countries to illustrate the influence. In his analysis, he pays
close attention to the new media including websites and blogs and how these in
combinations with portable media are influencing the consumption of sports
programming. He concludes, as other authors, that media has some influence on citizens
regardless of the format, and he says that impacts on the individual and on their
communities are still unclear requiring further study.
Álvaro Pérez-Ugena y Coromina provides a comprehensive overview on the
soap operas or telenovelas in his chapter “Telenovelas: Influencial Media, An
Information Resource Or A Socialization Tool?” He provides a historical synopsis of
telenovelas and their transition from entertainment to socialization instruments used
globally by private and public broadcasting companies. He describes the format used in
the telenovelas including; family issues and dynamics, social inequality, historical
revisions, visual and language uses. Pérez-Ugena provides an examination of how
telenovelas in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia use information in their content and
how this compares with early examples of soap operas in Europe. The impact of
telenovelas, he concludes, is wide and multifaceted to individuals who as citizens need
to disentangle the content of the information provided and to wrestle with the
socialization content included in the programs.
Fernando García Masip explores Brazilian democracy and citizen journalism in
his chapter “Citizen Journalism, Cyber-activism and Contemporary Brazilian
Democracy: A Deconstructive Approach.” The chapter seeks to examine the ways in
which the professional journalism in the Brazilian society in the ‘80s of last century, has
systematically included ambiguously the amateur/ layman journalism in its pages and
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also shows how the amateur journalism, tout court, has created its own spaces
particularly in the realm of cyberculture. This world wide phenomenon has a growing
important activism in Brazil and contributes with the dissolution of the canonic borders
between transmitters/receptors, producer/audience, professional/amateur, press/citizen,
etc. Garcia Masip evaluates up to which point this type of factual deconstruction is real.
Manuel Chavez in “Making Journalism and Citizenship Work: A Model of Civic
and Community Participation in News Production” describes and examines the
connection of journalism and citizenship in Mexico. He argues that citizens in
developing democracies have few open doors to express their voices, concerns and
interests; thus limiting civic and community participation. In his chapter, Chavez
discusses the utility of incorporating community members to the editorial decision
making in the press. He shows data and analysis of community infused editorial
councils in four newspapers that are part of the Mexican Grupo Reforma. Chavez shows
that participants, while at first were unclear about their contributions to the newspapers,
later identified their input as a significant component of the improvement of
community, public opinion and democracy. While Reforma primarily sought to improve
the quality of its newspapers by incorporating the community in the editorial decision-
making, the news organization has been able to contribute to the formation of a public
sphere in Mexico. The model, as Chavez concludes, has generated novel impacts on
democracy and civic engagement and has created a unique model of media
accountability.
Manuel Guerrero and Victoria Isabela Corduneanu in “Trust, Credibility and
Relevance in the Consumption of Information among Mexican Youth. Third Generation
TV Audiences” explore two areas of information consumption. On the one hand, they
explore the failure of traditional informational program formats and contents to attract
Mexican educated young audiences. The discourse, images and topics presented are
simply afar from youth’s interests and expectations. On the other hand, these youngsters
seem to conform a third generation of TV (a media) audiences who are able to make
quite elaborated forms of media consumption in which they are able to deconstruct and
relate to media contents in various complex forms. The authors pose a reflection on new
formats and contents to approach, and eventually re-engage young media-native
audiences.
Manuel Gameros in “Politics as Entertainment in Mexico” reviews the recent
examples of media framing during presidential political campaigns. He argues that
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company expanding and extensive power. She explains that the power behind Televisa
allows the company to control more domestic market share than any other network in a
large Latin America country with significant implications on the quality of news. She
concludes by saying that this expansion hinders civic engagement, citizenship, and
democratization.
We think the strengthening of democracy, citizenship and civic participation in
Iberoamerica deserves close attention to issues that now we can pose as questions, such
as: How to induce more media accountability? How should Iberoamerica standardize a
model of civic engagement? How to improve the “informed citizen” model? What can
entertainment do and how should entertainment help in informing, educating and
empowering citizens? What are the roles of both the private and public media
companies? Are legal and regulatory frameworks needed in the process? Are the new
models of access to information and transparency contributing to empowering society as
expected? What are the results derived from new models of access to information?
We believe this book provides a significant contribution to the Iberoamerican
media scholarship on democracy and citizenship. The close examination of journalism
practices, information models, entertainment formulas and their interactions and
impacts on democratic building and civic engagement will need more scholarly work.
The need to create an inventory of positive examples is welcome and very much
required. We are sure colleagues from other countries in Iberoamerica will be able to
contribute, and continue, this academic dialogue in improving regional democracy.
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