"Los estudios sobre comunicación en la Argentina se configuraron en el cruce entre las contingencias que atravesaron al país y las que transitaron las y los intelectuales que reflexionaron sobre la irrupción de los medios masivos. Este libro trata sobre Margarita Graziano, Aníbal Ford y
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Héctor Schmucler. Los recorridos y los temas de interés de estas tres figuras - abordados por Guillermo Mastrini, María Graciela Rodríguez y Mariano Zarowsky, respectivamente - no fueron los mismos pero tuvieron coincidencias. Fueron parte de una generación que se desarrolló profesionalmente en tiempos en los que la escisión entre trabajo académico y militancia política era una rareza. El exilio significó, más allá de sus tristezas, un espacio de diálogo con otras realidades; cuando terminó, Graziano, Ford y Schmucler volvieron a trabajar en la Argentina con la intención de que su labor académica incidiera en la sociedad y con la premisa común de producir y difundir categorías de interpretación del mundo desde América Latina." (Editorial)
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"This book is the first one in English about the famous community radio stations operated in Bolivia by the miners’ trade unions. Since about 1950, there has been a network of more than twenty radios all locally funded and operated. This book focuses on the most heroic period of their existence du
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ring the twenty-five years from about 1960 to 1985. This unique experience of local media is described through the voices of Latin American communication researchers and political activists. The chapters are selected and translated by Alan O’Connor who published the first scholarly article in English on the Bolivian miners’ radios. This book also gives readers an introduction to the methods and concerns of Latin American communication researchers. This work includes overview written by Bolivian communication researchers who first brought the miners’ radios to the attention of researchers on participatory media. These pioneering articles struggle to fit the unruly miners’ radios into the concepts of debates about global communications. They stress what is unique about the Bolivian experience and the successes, problems and lack of resources of the radio stations. The book also includes moving testimonies by participants in the radio stations. An historic transcript from a live broadcast shows how the radios connect up during times of political crisis in an attempt to organize resistance to a military coup. With the decline of the Bolivian mining industry since 1985 many of the radio stations no longer exist. The book documents attempts to rescue at least some of the stations and continue their work into the present." (Publisher description)
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