Community Media and Civil Society: Lessons from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Doctoral Thesis (2014), vi, 518 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 478-517
"This dissertation explores the role of community media in democratic civil society governance through an examination of participatory communications under socialist administrations in Latin America, with a primary focus on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. In so doing, it seeks to establish a theoretical framework that will facilitate publicly supported democratic media systems capable of displacing hegemonic commercial and state models. One major axis of investigation is the utility of public sphere theory for the structuration of participatory media institutions that function within a system of civil society governance." (Abstract)
Introduction: Toward a Participatory Democratic Media System, 1
1 Community Media Studies, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere, 14
2 Participatory Communication and the Civil State in 20th Century Latin American Socialism, 67
Ideology and Civil Society in Scientific and Critical Marxisms -- Revolutionary Cuba (1959 – 1989) -- Chile's Popular Unity Government (1970 – 73) -- Sandinista Nicaragua (1979-1990)
3 Community Media and Civil Society in Puntofijista Venezuela, 157
4 Community Media and the Bolivarian Revolution, 262
5 Toward the Restructuration of Bolivarian Community Media, 344
Conclusion: Toward a Heterarchical Public Sphere Theory as a Basis for the Structuration of a Participatory Democratic Media System, 453
1 Community Media Studies, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere, 14
2 Participatory Communication and the Civil State in 20th Century Latin American Socialism, 67
Ideology and Civil Society in Scientific and Critical Marxisms -- Revolutionary Cuba (1959 – 1989) -- Chile's Popular Unity Government (1970 – 73) -- Sandinista Nicaragua (1979-1990)
3 Community Media and Civil Society in Puntofijista Venezuela, 157
4 Community Media and the Bolivarian Revolution, 262
5 Toward the Restructuration of Bolivarian Community Media, 344
Conclusion: Toward a Heterarchical Public Sphere Theory as a Basis for the Structuration of a Participatory Democratic Media System, 453
