International Seminar

 

Media and Democratization in Latin America

 P A R T I C I P A N T S

Rosa Maria Alfaro Moreno is founder of non-governmental associations that focus on citizen participation and media monitoring, including the Association of Social Communicators CALANDRIA, the Veeduría Ciudadana de la Comunicación Social, and the Latin American Network of Media Observatories. She was a Professor of Communication for more than 25 years in Peruvian universities. She has authored several books, including Comunicación para otro desarollo (Communication for another development) and Ciudadanos de a de veras (Honest to good citizens).

 

Fernando Coronil, a Venezuelan citizen, teaches Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. He is the author of The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela, editor of Seeing History and co-editor of States of Violence, as well as the author of many articles linking theory, politics and history. He is currently working on a book titled Crude Matters on the 2002 coup d'état against Hugo Chávez.

 

Scott Desposato is an expert on Latin American political institutions and their interaction with local context. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001. Since then, he has held positions at the Harvard Academy and the University of Arizona. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego.

 

Manuel Alejandro Guerrero Martinez is a Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research focuses on voting preferences and behavior, openness and professionalism of the electronic media in Mexico, youth and television news consumption, television and political trust, and the trustworthiness of television campaigns.

 

Daniel C. Hallin is a Professor of Communication at the University of California at San Diego and Chair of the Communication Department.  He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley.  His books include The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam, We Keep America on Top of the World: Television News and the Public Sphere and Comparing Media Systems:  Three Models of Media and Politics.  His work on Latin American media includes studies of Mexican television news and of media and political clientelism.

 

Sallie Hughes is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Miami and author of Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006). Hughes has published extensively on Latin American journalism, media and politics, especially in Mexico. Her main research interest is in reaching a better understanding of how journalism and the media may interact with participatory citizenship, responsive government, and the diversity of the mediated public sphere.

 

Chappell Lawson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. His book Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and Media Opening in Mexico (University of California Press, 2002) was the first systematic study of the emergence of a free press and its consequences for democracy.

 

Rousiley C. M. Maia received her PhD in Political Science from The University of Nottingham (U.K) and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Communication of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. She is the author of Mídia e Democracia Deliberativa (Media and Deliberative Democracy) and the editor of Media, Esfera Pública e Identidades Coletivas (Media, Public Sphere and Collective Identities).

 

Rick Rockwell is an Associate Professor of broadcast journalism at American University and the co-author of the book Media Power in Central America, which won an American Library Association Choice magazine award in 2004. In addition to his book, he has authored or co-authored 18 book chapters, government reports and peer-reviewed journal articles on Latin America, including a chapter in the recently released book Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies.

 

Enrique E. Sánchez-Ruiz received his M.A (1980) and his Ph.D. (1984) from Stanford University. He is the author of more than 150 academic products (articles, book chapters, books; most of them in Spanish). He is a Professor at the Department of Social Communication, University of Guadalajara, where he also chairs the Ph.D. Program in Social Sciences. Research interests: Media and democracy; and Political Economy of cultural industries.

 

Carlos de la Torre is Director of the Ph.D. Program and Chair of Political Studies FLACSO-Ecuador. He received his doctorate from the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Populist Seduction in Latin America (Ohio University Press, 2000). He was awarded a New Century Fulbright Scholarship.

 

Silvio Waisbord is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of two books, including Watchdog Journalism in South America (Columbia U. Press), and co-editor of two books, including Latin Politics, Global Media (U. of Texas Press). He has published on journalism, politics, media, and international development in academic journals and other publications.