Autor/es
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Colaborador
Mata, María Cristina
Schuster, Federico Luis
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2004-2009
Idioma
spa
Extent
260 p.
Derechos
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Cobertura
ARG
2004-2009
Abstract
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between the mass media and the citizenship in contemporary democracies where late capitalism situates communication and information in the center of accumulation and material and symbolic reproduction processes to benefit the transformation of mass media in corporations that defy the importance of National States. The focus of the dissertation is the self-understanding of the problematic built by the citizens that demand the effective validity of the right to communicate and who claim for the media democratization. In particular, the following questions are asked: Which are the social and historical conditions on which the demands for the right of communication and media democratization are based? Who are the subjects behind these demands? What are the meanings configured by this demands and what are the interpretations about relations between media, democracy and citizenship that are branded and receive new meanings in those experiences? What is the strategic, institutional and performative political impact of these actions? What are the contributions of those struggles to the delimitation of the significance of the right to communicate? In order to respond to these inquiries, we studied the practices of the Coalición por una Radiodifusión Democrática de Argentina (CRD) (2004-2009), so as to determine the characteristics and relations between the conditions on which the institution emerged, the meanings built in its actions and the possibilities and limitations of its constitution as a subject of political and communicational transformations.
From a theoretical perspective, our proposal has been to understand this collective actions as social and political processes related to the mediatization of society and, specifically, to the hegemonic mediatization of public spaces. Our initial hypothesis is that, beyond the concrete demands expressed or the action repertoires implemented, all these processes explicit an inherent contradiction that characterizes mediatized societies: the contradiction between the constitution and actuation ways of the "democratic citizenship" (Mouffe, 1999) and the hegemonic mediatization of the public sphere. In relation to the case, the initial hypothesis proposed that CRD obtained from it´s communicative inscription in the public space the force that allowed it to revert the systematic blockage of the democratic consideration of the issue, and to produce the inflection of its hegemonic understanding as a market issue.
In the first two chapters, we present the general problem of the research, we revise the background of the issue and discuss the concepts, assumptions and hypothesis that justify the approach method. This approach joints a political and cultural view of media communication with a sociopolitical perspective of the collective action. In Chapter 3 we lay out the design strategy of this research, based on the case study and we detail the methods and techniques used for the constructions of the information. We also considerate the implications that, in the context of this dissertation, acquires the hypothesis of a growing symmetry between the practical knowledge and the scientific knowledge that would affect the production of knowledge in social sciences nowadays. In Chapter 4 we study the context in which CRD emerged. In Chapter 5, we explain the empirical reconstruction of CRD's organized actions, according to three movilization phases. Moving forward, on Chapter 6 we analyze the perceptions about the relationship between mass media, citizenship and the right to communicate as described and resignified in the CRD. In Chapter 7, we go over the actuation and interlocution dynamics in the public sphere that allows the understanding of its performative and institutional efficiency. We demonstrate that¸ in opposition to the deterministic hypothesis of mediatization, there is no unique logic for the construction of public problems (the hegemonic mediatization), and the conquer of rights by the citizenship requires the participation of the State in the reversion of power relationships that limits this participation. Finally, in Chapter 8, we gather the conclusions and the considerations that, as a result of the theoretical articulation and the methodological strategy proposed, refer to the reaches and limitations of citizenship practices in relation to the media democratization and the right to communicate in mediatized societies.
From a theoretical perspective, our proposal has been to understand this collective actions as social and political processes related to the mediatization of society and, specifically, to the hegemonic mediatization of public spaces. Our initial hypothesis is that, beyond the concrete demands expressed or the action repertoires implemented, all these processes explicit an inherent contradiction that characterizes mediatized societies: the contradiction between the constitution and actuation ways of the "democratic citizenship" (Mouffe, 1999) and the hegemonic mediatization of the public sphere. In relation to the case, the initial hypothesis proposed that CRD obtained from it´s communicative inscription in the public space the force that allowed it to revert the systematic blockage of the democratic consideration of the issue, and to produce the inflection of its hegemonic understanding as a market issue.
In the first two chapters, we present the general problem of the research, we revise the background of the issue and discuss the concepts, assumptions and hypothesis that justify the approach method. This approach joints a political and cultural view of media communication with a sociopolitical perspective of the collective action. In Chapter 3 we lay out the design strategy of this research, based on the case study and we detail the methods and techniques used for the constructions of the information. We also considerate the implications that, in the context of this dissertation, acquires the hypothesis of a growing symmetry between the practical knowledge and the scientific knowledge that would affect the production of knowledge in social sciences nowadays. In Chapter 4 we study the context in which CRD emerged. In Chapter 5, we explain the empirical reconstruction of CRD's organized actions, according to three movilization phases. Moving forward, on Chapter 6 we analyze the perceptions about the relationship between mass media, citizenship and the right to communicate as described and resignified in the CRD. In Chapter 7, we go over the actuation and interlocution dynamics in the public sphere that allows the understanding of its performative and institutional efficiency. We demonstrate that¸ in opposition to the deterministic hypothesis of mediatization, there is no unique logic for the construction of public problems (the hegemonic mediatization), and the conquer of rights by the citizenship requires the participation of the State in the reversion of power relationships that limits this participation. Finally, in Chapter 8, we gather the conclusions and the considerations that, as a result of the theoretical articulation and the methodological strategy proposed, refer to the reaches and limitations of citizenship practices in relation to the media democratization and the right to communicate in mediatized societies.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales