Silvio Waisbord
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 199648 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Silvio Waisbord |
| PRENOMES | Silvio |
| SOBRENOME | Waisbord |
| ASSINATURA | WAISBORD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0026-7111 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 91 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 674 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
The cosmopolitan imagination
In this presidential address, I make a call to embrace a cosmopolitan imagination. I understand the cosmopolitan imagination as an intellectual vision that recognizes and embraces a global consciousness—the presence and the contributions of scholars from around the world. It is a vision that encourages us to act as members of a global community of communication scholars. I outline why this vision is necessary to further develop and strengthen suc…
WITHDRAWN—Administrative Duplicate Publication
This special issue is a timely contribution to journalism studies.It amply demonstrates the richness and empirical breadth of cross-border journalism.The
Afterword
This special issue is a timely contribution to journalism studies.It amply demonstrates the richness and empirical breadth of cross-border journalism.The
La fe en el fact-checking
Este trabajo es una revisión crítica del modelo construido alrededor del movimiento de verificación de desinformación desde dos perspectivas: metodológica, como protocolo global para cotejar discursos públicos con datos, y epistemológica, como institución destacada entre las soluciones contra la desinformación. A partir de 2016, se consolidó en estudios académicos y normas regulatorias un modelo para combatir la desinformación que adoptó el nombr…
The Legacy of the Sociology of News Paradigm
The sociology of news (SoN) paradigm laid out the foundations for journalism studies, a growing, dynamic, global and multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It is opportune to reassess its validity and influence, especially considering massive transformations in news and journalism, as well as recent trends in academic scholarship. In this paper, we argue that the SoN remains influential, despite major transformations in the journalism industry and t…
Continuities and Breaks in Digital Journalism and Media Systems
The study of digital journalism continues to generate new questions and answers, as this special issue illustrates. I understand digital journalism (Waisbord 2019, 352) as “the networked production
Journalism and the Challenges of Political Communication and Contemporary Democracies
Soberanía y nacionalismo en entornos digitales
En este trabajo examinamos los factores que impulsan el cibernacionalismo y la llamada gobernanza digital en las políticas de medios. La curiosa ausencia de debates y fuertes esfuerzos para regular las plataformas digitales en la región contrasta con las tendencias observadas en EEUU, Europa, China e India. Durante las últimas dos décadas, la región latinoamericana ha adoptado en gran medida un enfoque desregulador de laissez-faire en cuestiones …
How Migrants Experience Information Uncertainty and Vulnerability
This article develops a phenomenological approach to examine the intersection of global migration and rising concerns about disinformation. Drawing on interviews with Venezuelans en route to the United States-Mexico border through Central America, the article analyzes how undocumented migrants live amid information precarity, how they relate to disinformation, and how disinformation affects their decisions. We demonstrate the centrality of inform…
Prólogo
Este libro ofrece un panorama actualizado y minucioso sobre cuestiones centrales en el estudio de la comunicación política en tiempos de polarización. Considerando la limitada literatura en castellano sobre el tema, éste es un valioso aporte sobre problemas centrales que merecen atención e investigación. El punto de partida son los desafíos de la polarización, especialmente de la polarización afectiva, para la democracia y la dificultad de entrev…
Mob Censorship Revisited
Media Representations and Diversity in the 100 Years of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
The Journal and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) has documented the struggle members of marginalized groups face in their quest to be treated equally in media content and careers. In this analysis, we note that the journal’s century of articles documents the many historical shifts in the representation and treatment of women and minorities in media settings. Articles emphasize the lack of opportunities for advancement, management issues, and s…
Cómo enfrentar las desigualdades de la academia global en los estudios de comunicación
Hay profundas desigualdades y hegemonía de la academia del Norte Global ejemplificadas por publicaciones, referencias y cuerpos editoriales de revistas, y el lugar preponderante del inglés como lingua franca de la academia global. Esto contribuye a la persistente marginalización e invisibilidad de académicos y “estudios del Sur”. Frente a esta situación, este trabajo plantea tres estrategias: Consolidar espacios de reconocimiento y apoyo; Cultiva…
Intertwining Science Journalism with (Post)Development
The pandemic renders valuable lessons for thinking what kind of science journalism is needed in a world of overlapping crises. Just as it confirms the crucial role of science (and science journalism) in the promotion of public welfare, the pandemic powerfully demonstrates the need to intertwine science with (post)development. As the epitome of global risks, the pandemic reminds us that a broad conception of science journalism is imperative. This …
Polarización política y medios de comunicación, su impacto en la democracia y en la sociedad
Este artículo examina la relación entre la polarización política y los medios de comunicación en la sociedad contemporánea. La polarización se ha convertido en un fenómeno prevalente en muchos países, caracterizado por la creciente división de opiniones y actitudes extremas entre diferentes grupos políticos. Los medios de comunicación, como actores clave en la difusión de información y la formación de la opinión pública, desempeñan un papel funda…
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation
In this paper, I propose that alternative refers to the communicative politics of contestation which take different interpretations across political contexts. I develop this argument by examining three issues: the decentering/de-westernizing of the analysis of “alternative media”; the changing nature of the relationships between alternative and mainstream journalism; and the multiple political dimensions of contestation as an essential aspect of …
Can Journalists Be Safe in a Violent World
The safety of journalists is one of the most formidable challenges for press freedom and democracy around the world. The problem is the result of the juxtaposition of various forms of violence that break journalists’ sense of security and autonomy – the ability to control and decide the parameters of their work. Threats to safety drive journalists to self-censorship and to use extreme caution. Here I propose that the problem of journalists’ safet…
What is next for de-westernizing communication studies
Public Sphere and Post-populism in the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this article, we examine whether the COVID-19 pandemic opens opportunities for consensual politics and the reconstruction of a pluralistic public sphere in countries characterised by polarised politics. Our focus is on how the Alberto Fernández administration in Argentina managed the crisis during 2020 and the window of opportunity that the pandemic created for a post-populist, depolarised scenario. Although the government initially tried to p…
The 5Ws and 1H of Digital Journalism
Digital journalism is the networked production, distribution, and consumption of news and information. It is characterized by networked settings and practices that expand the opportunities and spaces for news. Digital journalism is the outgrowth of new ecological conditions for the circulation of news content in contemporary society and the crumbling of the pyramidal model of news that prevailed since the beginnings of industrial journalism. Thes…
The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism
In this setting, it is crucial to look not only at the actual facticity, neutrality, and honesty of information, but also at the perceptions of unintended misinformation and intentional disinformation. This chapter gives an overview of how mis- and disinformation can be conceptualised as perceptions of the news media's accuracy and honesty. The goals of disinformation may vary, but cultivating distrust; increasing support for, for example, radica…
The curious absence of cybernationalism in Latin America
In this article, we are interested in examining the factors that drive cybernationalism and digital governance in media policies. As scholars with a long-standing interest in media industries and policies in Latin America, we start with a simple empirical observation: the curious absence of debates and strong efforts to regulate digital media in the region grounded on nationalistic arguments. It is not exaggerated to affirm that for the past two …
Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism
De La Simplicidad a La Complejidad
La pandemia del COVID-19 trae lecciones fundamentales para la comunicación en salud. Revela un nuevo orden comunicacional, trastoca el lugar de la salud pública en la ecología informativa, y confirma las limitaciones de visiones tradicionales sobre el papel de la ciencia y el sanitarismo en la comunicación pública. Asimismo, plantea desafíos que carecen de respuestas sencillas. Tanto las políticas eficaces como las erráticas y las falladas frente…
Mob Censorship
Rising numbers of online attacks against journalists have been documented globally. Female, minority reporters and journalists who cover issues interwoven with right-wing identity anchors have been primary targets. This trend reflects growing forms of mob censorship linked to the demonization of journalists and the press by populist leaders. Based on recent cases in the United States, I define mob censorship as bottom-up, citizen vigilantism aime…
Truth is What Happens to News
Here I propose that the phenomenon of “fake news” is indicative of the contested position of news and the dynamics of belief formation in contemporary societies. It is symptomatic of the collapse of the old news order and the chaos of contemporary public communication. These developments attest to a new chapter in the old struggle over the definition of truth—governments waging propaganda wars, elites, and corporations vie to dominate news covera…
McTV
Globalization has intensified interconnectivity among television industries worldwide. Interconnectivity happens through structural and institutional linkages among television systems and industries worldwide, resulting in an increasingly integrated global business governed by similar practices and goals. The dynamics are reflected in the popularity of television formats. On the surface, global dissemination of formats may suggest not only the gl…
De-westernizing Communication Studies
The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the “de-westernization” of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge
The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of media globalization
This article argues that the concept of national media systems, and the comparative study of media systems, institutions, and practices, retains relevance in an era of media globalization and technological convergence. It considers various critiques of ‘media systems’ theories, such as those which view the concept of ‘system’ as a legacy of an outdated positivism and those which argue that the media globalization is weakening the relevance of nat…
Presidential Twitter in the face of Covid-19
This paper analyses the use of Twitter as a presidential communication channel during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis. The aim is to determine how four recently elected presidents (those of Spain, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil) managed their political communication, and to explore the thesis that they resorted to populist messages during the first months of their terms in office. Using a qualitative methodology and the XL Node tool to …
Democracy, journalism, and Latin American populism
Contemporary populism in Latin America suggests that normative arguments about the relation between journalism and democracy are premised on contrasting models of media democracy. There is no single model of media ethics to offer a single foundation for media democracy. The model represented by the Anglo-American tradition of the liberal press assigns the market a central role, and envisions limited participation of civil society and the state. I…
Antipress Violence and the Crisis of the State
Although it is an issue of immediate interest to reporters and press organizations, antipress violence has not elicited a great deal of scholarly attention. While in the context of developed democracies, studies have concluded that violence against the press has significantly diminished in the twentieth century, the situation is markedly different elsewhere. This gap is not surprising considering that the literature on press and democracy has bee…
Why Populism is Troubling for Democratic Communication
In this article, I argue that populism has a troubling relationship with democratic communication. As illustrated by contemporary Latin American cases, populism’s illiberalism is contrary to the existence of the communication commons—a public space characterized by diversity, tolerance, reason, and facts. It is grounded in a binary, agonistic view of politics; an understanding of “the people” as a unified subject; and espousal of post-truth polit…
Democratic Journalism and “Statelessness
The starting premise of this article is that democratic journalism, no matter its specifics, is not viable as long as states are unable to perform key functions that cannot be delegated to other actors. For journalism, an intrusive state is as problematic as a tenuous, chaotic, and absent state. This point has not been sufficiently recognized and investigated in the literature on the current expansion and consolidation of a democratic press world…
The vulnerabilities of journalism
What is next for de-westernizing communication studies
The environmental story that wasn’t
Trolling Journalists and the Risks of Digital Publicity
The global phenomenon of trolling of journalists lays out the ambivalent consequences of news interactivity and the risks of digital publicity. The push for digital publicity made journalists more exposed to attacks amid rising digital hate and the populist demonization of the news media. The negative impact of trolling reveals important blind spots of aspirational visions about the consequences of audience interactivity for journalism. The troub…
When the Cart of Media Is Before the Horse of Identity
Different positions have argued that the media have effectively shaped and reshaped national and transnational identities. In light of recent studies showing the complexity of identity-formation processes, however, it is unclear that prevalent arguments convincingly explain the relations between media and identity—whether at the local, national, regional, and global levels. This article offers a critical review of approaches that foreground the r…
Knocking on Newsroom Doors
This article examines the causes for the rise of political scandals in Argentina in the early 1990s. Available explanations fail to provide a satisfactory answer, mainly because they ignore the interplay of forces that produce media revelations of government wrongdoing. Argentine scandals cannot be reduced to arguments about official corruption but rather require a consideration of political and media developments. Media exposés in Argentina have…
Three Challenges for Communication and Global Social Change
Journal Article Three Challenges for Communication and Global Social Change Get access Silvio Waisbord Silvio Waisbord 1School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, May 2015, Pages 144–165, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12068 Published: 30 April 2015
Scandals, Media, and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina
This article examines several scandals in 1990s Argentina to discuss the linkages between scandals, media, and citizenship. Suggesting that media publicity is central for scandals to unfold, the article examines a particular arms scandal. An institutional approach that considers the role of different political actors in different scandals shows how and why the media and other institutions contributed to the making and unmaking of scandals. Althou…
Can Journalists Be Safe in a Violent World
The safety of journalists is one of the most formidable challenges for press freedom and democracy around the world. The problem is the result of the juxtaposition of various forms of violence that break journalists’ sense of security and autonomy – the ability to control and decide the parameters of their work. Threats to safety drive journalists to self-censorship and to use extreme caution. Here I propose that the problem of journalists’ safet…
Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies
A number of recent cases of investigative journalism in the South American news media might lead to a conclusion that U.S‐style professional norms are beginning to characterize that region's press. The present research argues, rather, that there is as yet no consensus among journalists about the ideals that should govern them: South American journalism straddles ambiguous traditions and continues to be mired in cultural contradictions and the pol…
Remaking ‘area studies’ in journalism studies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSilvio Waisbord Silvio Waisbord is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication
The Ties that Still Bind
This paper explores the interaction of the global and the national, beginning with an analysis of the decrease in attention to the impact of global media on Latin American cultures in contemporary political and academic debates. It attributes this decrease to the convergence of three developments: the failure of past experiences with state ownership and control of mass media, optimism about the state of audiovisual industries and cultures, and th…
A metatheory of mediatization and globalization
I appreciate the invitation to comment on Professor Sheldon Gunaratne's erudite and passionate call to engage with Eastern philosophy and religion to study mediatization and globalization. His arti
The pragmatic politics of media reform
This article analyzes the strategies and the impact of two ‘media movements’ in Latin America — the experiences of civic coalitions working on media policy reform in Uruguay, and advocacy journalism about tobacco control in Argentina — through interviewing the principle actors involved in these movements and reviewing the literature relevant to them. Media movements refer to a broad set of civic initiatives to transform media structures, practice…
Between Data Capitalism and Data Citizenship
We discuss two points raised by the articles in this special issue, which are related to our previous work on media movements in Latin America. First, we analyze the dimensions of data activism in the region. Recent experiences in Latin America suggest two types of data activism differentiated by goals and spheres of action: social data activism and data rights activism. They also have diverse tactics and achievements. Second, we discuss the Glob…
The institutional challenges of participatory communication in international aid
This article offers an explanation for the limited uses of participatory communication in development by taking an institutionalist perspective that examines prevalent notions about communication and organizational uses in international aid institutions. The argument is that institutional goals and dynamics determine the use of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. The selection of specific communication approaches is not primarily based on th…
Politics and Identity in the Argentine Army
Scholars and journalists have devoted considerable attention to analyzing the three military rebellions that rocked Argentine democracy in 1987 and 1988 (Boron 1987; Fontana 1988; López 1988; Stepan 1988). In addition to considering whether these revolts threatened the stability of the new political regime, academic and political interpretations have pointed to another issue stemming from the revolts: the emergence of a new generation of army off…
Television and Election Campaigns in Contemporary Argentina
This article discusses the coming of television to Argentine electoral politics during the last decade. It reviews how political parties and candidates have used television for campaigning. A dynamic and rapidly changing polity chiefly accounts for the fact that television has become a central forum for politicians to go public. The difficulties faced by parties in establishing solid communication channels, the breakdown of partisan identities, a…
Knocking on Newsroom Doors
This article examines the causes for the rise of political scandals in Argentina in the early 1990s. Available explanations fail to provide a satisfactory answer, mainly because they ignore the interplay of forces that produce media revelations of government wrongdoing. Argentine scandals cannot be reduced to arguments about official corruption but rather require a consideration of political and media developments. Media exposés in Argentina have…
Leviathan dreams
This article examines different forms of state intervention in the history of broadcasting in South America. In contrast to “media imperialism”; positions, it is argued that the analysis of the evolution of broadcasting systems cannot be restricted to the role of international capital. Nor can the development of broadcasting in the region be understood as completely dominated by market mechanisms. On different occasions and for different reasons,…
Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies
A number of recent cases of investigative journalism in the South American news media might lead to a conclusion that U.S‐style professional norms are beginning to characterize that region's press. The present research argues, rather, that there is as yet no consensus among journalists about the ideals that should govern them: South American journalism straddles ambiguous traditions and continues to be mired in cultural contradictions and the pol…
Can investigative reporting tell the truth? The modernity of journalism in Latin America
This article analyses the relation between investigative journalism and truth, with specific focus on reports of wrongdoing in the Latin American press. Although some forms of popular journalism challenge the traditional distinction between truth and falsity, truth-telling continues to be the master narrative of modern journalism. Journalistic truth lies on facts, and facts are primarily constructed on the basis of official testimonies and docume…
The Narrative of Exposés in South American Journalism
Studies have examined how reporters use narratives to deal with moral issues within the limits imposed by the rules of objectivity. This article analyzes the uses of narratives and the construction of a moral order by considering a journalistic culture that differs from the best studied cases in developed democracies. The focus is on the discursive frameworks used by two Brazilian newsweeklies during the coverage of Collorgate, the scandal that b…
When the Cart of Media Is Before the Horse of Identity
Different positions have argued that the media have effectively shaped and reshaped national and transnational identities. In light of recent studies showing the complexity of identity-formation processes, however, it is unclear that prevalent arguments convincingly explain the relations between media and identity—whether at the local, national, regional, and global levels. This article offers a critical review of approaches that foreground the r…
The Ties that Still Bind
This paper explores the interaction of the global and the national, beginning with an analysis of the decrease in attention to the impact of global media on Latin American cultures in contemporary political and academic debates. It attributes this decrease to the convergence of three developments: the failure of past experiences with state ownership and control of mass media, optimism about the state of audiovisual industries and cultures, and th…
Introduction
Latin Politics, Global Media
Introduction Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord Chapter One. Local Politics, Global Media Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord Chapter Two. Transforming Television in Argentina: Market Development and Policy Reform in the 1990s Hernan Galperin Chapter Three. Mass Media in Brazil: Modernization to Prevent Change Roberto Amaral Translated by Silvio Waisbord and Elizabeth Fox Chapter Four. The Triumph of the Media Elite in Postwar Central America Rick R…
Antipress Violence and the Crisis of the State
Although it is an issue of immediate interest to reporters and press organizations, antipress violence has not elicited a great deal of scholarly attention. While in the context of developed democracies, studies have concluded that violence against the press has significantly diminished in the twentieth century, the situation is markedly different elsewhere. This gap is not surprising considering that the literature on press and democracy has bee…
Antipress Violence and the Crisis of the State
Antipress Violence and the Crisis of the State
Political Scandal
Journalism, Risk, and Patriotism
Much has been said about the emergence of a “new journalism” since September 11. Amid a phenomenal surge in ratings and news-stand sales in the weeks after the attacks, analysts talked about a new sense of purpose sweeping newspapers and newscasts (Auletta 2001). Mention was made of a “colossal shift” from frivolous to serious journalism (Jensen 2001). Pundits assessed that the media sobered up after a decade-long binge on sensationalism, and the…
McTV
Globalization has intensified interconnectivity among television industries worldwide. Interconnectivity happens through structural and institutional linkages among television systems and industries worldwide, resulting in an increasingly integrated global business governed by similar practices and goals. The dynamics are reflected in the popularity of television formats. On the surface, global dissemination of formats may suggest not only the gl…
Scandals, Media, and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina
This article examines several scandals in 1990s Argentina to discuss the linkages between scandals, media, and citizenship. Suggesting that media publicity is central for scandals to unfold, the article examines a particular arms scandal. An institutional approach that considers the role of different political actors in different scandals shows how and why the media and other institutions contributed to the making and unmaking of scandals. Althou…
McTv. Bidrag til en forståelse af tv-formaternes globale popularitet
Globaliseringen har knyttet verdens tv-industrier tættere sammen. Struk- turelle og institutionelle forbindelser mellem tv-systemer og tv-industrier har skabt en tv-branche, der i stigende grad styres af de samme prak- sisser og mål. Denne dynamik afspejles i tv-formaternes popularitet. På overfladen bidrager den globale udbredelse af tv-formater dog ikke kun til en global integration af industriens økonomi men også til en standardi- sering af pr…
When training is insufficient
The international development community has lately recognized the programatic importance of capacity development. Despite growing attention, a consensus is still lacking on appropriate strategies and interventions to strengthen local capacity for development programs. The CHANGE Project designed and implemented a program to contribute to capacity development in health promotion in Peru between 2002 and 2005. This article discusses key lessons lea…
Democratic Journalism and “Statelessness
The starting premise of this article is that democratic journalism, no matter its specifics, is not viable as long as states are unable to perform key functions that cannot be delegated to other actors. For journalism, an intrusive state is as problematic as a tenuous, chaotic, and absent state. This point has not been sufficiently recognized and investigated in the literature on the current expansion and consolidation of a democratic press world…
Beyond the medical-informational model
Communication and social capital in the control of avian influenza
International development agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations are increasingly collaborating with local civil society groups in mounting behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions. Even in countries with weakened civil societies, the social capital of local organizations can be a fundamental communication resource. The experience of three programmes in the Mekong Region that used BCC to prevent and control ou…
News Coverage of the Darfur Conflict
The Myth of Media Globalization - By K. Hafez
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