"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil
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e also highlighting spaces and strategies of resistance. By adopting a South-South perspective, it brings together scholars focused on these issues in both regions, featuring a dialogue between two leading scholars, Herman Wasserman and Silvio Waisbord in the Foreword. The book not only demonstrates how media practices in Africa and Latin America are influenced by the political economy of their media systems, but also contributes significantly to advancing empirical, theoretical, and comparative research on media in non-Western settings." (Publisher description)
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"Between 2019 and 2021, the combined income of all the sectors studied increased by 44%. The sector with the most significant percentage growth is internet advertising, impacting other traditional media industries (newspapers, radio, and television) which have experienced a decrease in relative mark
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et share. Within the telecommunications sector, notable increases in income from ISPs, stable revenue for mobile telephony, and a decline in revenue from fixed telephony and the multichannel video distribution (MCVD) are observed. Overall, high levels of concentration exist in the media, telecommunications, and internet industries. The internet applications sector shows the highest concentration according to the CR4 indicator, followed by telecommunications, and then the media and cultural industries. When considering the HHI indicator, online news and the written press exhibit lower levels of concentration. Television demonstrates moderate yet important concentration. Compared to Argentina and Brazil, Chile has a higher number of broadcast TV channels competing for audience interest. Conversely, certain internet services showcase very high HHI values, hinting at near-monopoly situations. Over the three years under review, there is relative stability aside from declines in audiovisual streaming services. Netflix, initially facing challenges in Latin America, is now encountering heightened competition." (Executive summa[internal remarks]
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"La elección de la temática de esta convocatoria fue incitada por la conmemoración de los 70 años de la primera transmisión televisiva en el país realizada el 17 de octubre de 1951 por Canal 7 de Buenos Aires que era dependiente de LR3 Radio Belgrano, de propiedad del Estado nacional y que est
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aba a cargo del presidente Juan Domingo Perón. Pero el acontecimiento resulta una excusa para recoger las reflexiones que se están dando en el campo académico en torno a un objeto de estudio que había hegemonizado la producción intelectual durante las últimas décadas del siglo XX en las que la televisión asumía un papel relevante como articulador de la vida social, cultural y política de nuestro país. Partíamos de la presunción que en el presente ese rol hegemónico se diluía en un ecosistema medial más diverso y que los estudios de los medios de comunicación habían reconducido gran parte de su atención para comprender las dinámicas, afectaciones y apropiaciones de los medios digitales, y la televisión (como forma tecnológica y cultural) parecería transitar un proceso de envejecimiento y disolución que no la hacía merecedora de los esfuerzos intelectuales. Sin embargo lo que se advierte es que el abordaje del medio televisivo se ha reinventado ampliando sus límites, instalando la problematización en la diversidad de dispositivos y formas narrativas que configuran lo audiovisual transmedia." (Página 7)
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"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati
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on, and innovation. It addresses a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In this discussion, one side fears the emergence of media empires that can sway public opinion and endanger democracy. The other side believes the Internet has opened media to unprecedented diversity and worries about excessive regulation by government. Strong opinions and policy advocates abound on each side, yet a lack of quantitative research across time, media industries, and countries undermines these positions. This book moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. The book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication, and others across a 10- to 25-year period in thirty countries. After examining these countries, this book offers comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, companies, and development levels. It calculates overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media." (Publisher description)
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