Brazil : Media from the Country of the Future.

Front Cover -- Brazil: Media from the Country of the Future -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Brazilian Television, Cinema, and Media -- Section II: The Brazilian Media Industry -- Section III: News and Journalism in Brazil -- Section IV: Social Movements and Protest in Brazil -- Section V: Theory: Brazilian Perspectives on Media and Communications Theory -- Conclusions and Implications -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Section I: Brazilian Television, Cinema, and Media -- The CangaÇo in Brazilian Cinema -- Introduction -- CangaÇo as a Genre -- The Beginnings -- The Brazilian Western -- Cinema Novo and CangaÇo -- Documentaries -- Comedies -- The New Brazilian Cinema -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- News Media and Historiography in Brazilian Cinema -- Crime in the News Media, the News Media in Film -- The Institutionalization of Information -- Entranced Earth: Personal and Communal Histories -- The Real from the Myth: Explint, Time-Life, and Rede Globo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Rise of The Working Poor within the Brazilian Mediascape: The Mythology of Social Inequality's Disappearance -- Introduction -- A Brief Overview of the Brazilian Mediascape and the Dominance of Rede Globo -- From Cinema to Television: The Increasing Visibility of the "Working Poor" -- Globo Productions: Debunking Some Representations, Constructing Others -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Section II: The Brazilian Media Industry -- The Introduction of Digital TV in Brazil: Lessons from the British and French Experience -- Introduction -- The PSBs -- Broadcasting Funding -- The Regulatory Approach to Digitalization -- The Digital Scenario -- Future Perspectives and Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Further reading.

Regional Media Groups in Brazil: Forms of Organizations in Geographic Scales -- Presentation -- Theoretical Approach and Empirical Methodology -- Data and Approach -- Spatialization and Media Concentration -- Regions and Geographic Scales -- Regionalization and the Media -- Main Media Groups Owning Newspapers -- Groups Financed by "Endogenous" Capital -- Groups Financial by "Exogenous" Capital -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Advertising in the Context of Radio Programming: From Ad Formats toward Ad Meta Formats -- Introduction -- Radio Advertising Formats -- Ad Formats -- Emission Mode -- Program Stream -- Ad Meta Formats -- Conclusion -- References -- Section III: News and Journalism In Brazil -- Mapping Journalistic Startups in Brazil: An Exploratory Study -- Introduction -- The Contemporary Brazilian Media Landscape -- The Impacts of Digitization -- The Concept of Innovation and the Brazilian Context -- Mapping of Brazilian Journalism Startups -- Final Considerations -- Notes -- References -- The Name of the Other: Media, Heterotopias, and Border Country Interactions -- Approach and Case Studies -- Borders and Geographic Conceptions -- Identity Reference Spaces: An Amazonian Heterotopia -- Identity Reference Spaces: A Missionary Heterotopia -- The Media as a Motor for Border Interaction -- Mobility, Spaces of Flow, and Spaces of Place -- Border Country Interactions in the Grey Zone -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Brazilian News Agencies: A Unique Model Between Media Conglomerates and the State -- The Landscape: State-Owned National News Agencies in Brazil -- The Business of News Agencies Owned by Media Conglomerates -- Digital Convergence, Circularity, and Dependency -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- A Study of Brazilian Intellectual-Journalists: Changes to Journalism (1950-1990) -- Introduction.

Theoretical Framework: Symbolic Interactionism and Social Worlds -- Methodology -- Choosing the Respondents: Selecting Intellectual-Journalists -- Reputation and Career -- Managing Intellectual Reputation -- Social Attunement and Careers -- Intellectual Reputation: Peer Recognition -- Intellectual-Journalists and Transformation in Brazilian Journalism: Introducing a New Professional Identity -- The First Moment: 1950-1960 -- The Dictatorship's "Plumb Years" (1968-1975) -- Democracy and the Strengthening of a New Professional Identity (1975-1984) -- A New Identity for Journalism Emerges -- Changes to Journalism and Professional Identity -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Section IV: Social Movements and Protest in Brazil -- Protests in Brazil: Mobile Networks and Devices as Tools of Protest -- Introduction -- Approach -- Ubiquity and Mobility -- Mobile Technologies and Cyber-activism -- Collective Action in the Networked World -- Mediated Crowds and Gatherings -- Real-Time Content Production and Distribution -- Protests in Brazil: The Mobile Networks and Devices as Tools of Protests -- Final Considerations -- Notes -- References -- Media Epiphanies: Selvies and silences in São Paulo street protests -- A Blank Screen and a Glass Wall: Urban Reflections -- The Experience of Space in a Mesh of Screens -- #VemPraRua: The June 2013 Demonstrations -- The Street Is for All: The Middle Class in Massive Demonstrations -- A Vote in the House: A Country Finds Its Congress -- Conclusions -- References -- Media and mediators in contemporary protests: Headlines and hashtags in the june 2013 in Brazil -- Introduction -- The Paradox of Collective Goods Provision -- Networked Collective Action and Contemporary Social Movements -- From the Logic of Collective Action to Connective Action -- Research Approach -- Results and Discussion -- Final Considerations.

Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Countercultural Happenings: The Performance of Revolt in Brazil's Tropicália Movement -- Setting the Stage for a Musical Protest: The Tumultuous Birth of Brazilian Rock -- Historical Background and Political Context -- Analytic Approach -- Tropicália: Protest in Words and Musical Form -- Antropofagia: Cultural Cannibalism -- Cafonismo: Kitsch, Pastiche, and Parody -- Tropicália's Experimentalism -- Visual Styles -- Playing with the Audience-Performer Divide -- A Case Study: "A Volta da Asa Branca" at the Phono 73 -- Conclusions and Implications -- Notes -- References -- Section V: Theory: Brazilian Perspectives -- Modalities and Offshoots of Communication in the Lifeworld: Meaning, Experience, and Interaction -- Introduction -- The Lifeworld as a Space of Communication -- The Communication and the Establishment of the "Lived World" -- The Lifeworld and Linguistically Mediated Interactions in Habermas -- Lifeworld, Media, Public Spheres, and Structures of Power -- Lifeworld, Political Conversation, and Discursive Power Asymmetries in Brazil -- Final Considerations -- Notes -- References -- Technophilias and Technophobias vis-à-vis Research &amp -- Development of Cybercultur@ -- Introduction -- Society Examined from the Point of View of Its Symbolic Production as a Totality -- The Three Dimensions of Symbolic Ecologies -- The Systemic Relationship between the Internal Brain and the External Brain -- De Kerckhove and the Neutrality of the Environment -- Conclusion: Cultural Fronts and the development of Cybercultur@ -- Notes -- References -- The Hyperconnected Contemporary Society -- Introduction -- The Context of Hyperconnection -- IoT and Big Data: Symptomatic Shifts -- Mobility and Connectivity: Leading Paradigms -- From "Online" to "Onlife" -- Toward the Hyperconnected: The Reconfiguration of Society.

The New Economy and Jobs of the Future -- New Literacies for Actor-Networks -- A New Glance at Digital Inclusion -- The Open as a Way Out -- Coding as a Hot Topic for Brazilian Research of the Future -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Historic Consciousness and Ethnographic Research about ICTs: Practices and Uses amongst Family Farming in Southern Brazil -- Introduction -- Voice and History -- Historical Consciousness -- Preliminary Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This book explores five key themes: the new face of news and journalism, social movements and protest, television, cinema, publicity and marketing, and media theory. Chapters reflect the Brazilian case as a laboratory for exploring the evolving media environment of one of the world's most fascinating societies.

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