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SILVIO R. WAISBORD

School of Media and Public Affairs

Media and Public Affairs Building, Suite 400

George Washington University

805 21st Street NW

Washington DC 20052

[email protected]

202 994 1464 office

202 549 1258 mobile

August 2017

EMPLOYMENT

2011-present Professor. School of Media and Public Affairs, George

Washington University.

2009-2011 Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (2009-2015).

School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington

University.

2007-2009 Assistant Professor. School of Media and Public Affairs, George

Washington University.

2002-2007 Senior Program Officer. Academy for Educational Development,

Washington, DC.

2001-2002 Associate Professor and Director of the Journalism Resources

Institute. Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers

University.

1995-2001 Assistant Professor. Department of Communication, and

Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University.

1993-1995 Lecturer. Annenberg School for Communication, University of

Pennsylvania.

EDUCATION

1993 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, San Diego.

1990 M.A. in Sociology, University of California, San Diego.

1985 Licenciatura in Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires,

Argentina.

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RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Books

Authored

English

1. (with M. S. Segura) Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Reform in Latin

America. Zed, 2016.

2. Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective. Polity,

2013.

3. Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability and Democracy.

Columbia University Press, 2000.

Spanish

4. Vox Populista: Medios, Periodismo, Democracia. Buenos Aires: GEDISA, 2013.

5. Duelo [Duel/Mourning]. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2009.

6. El Gran Desfile: Campañas Electorales y Medios de Comunicación en la Argentina.

Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1995.

Edited

English

1. (with H. Tumber) Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights, Routledge,

2017.

2. (with L. Steiner) News of Baltimore: Race, Rage, and the City, Routledge, 2017.

3. Media Sociology: A Reappraisal, Polity, 2014.

4. (with R. Obregon) Handbook of Global Health Communication, Wiley, 2012.

5. (with E. Fox) Local Politics, Global Media: Latin American Broadcasting and

Policy. University of Texas Press, 2002.

6. (with N. Morris) Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters. Rowman &

Littlefield, 2001.

Spanish

1. (with M. Petracci) Comunicación y Salud Pública: Enfoques para Estudio y Práctica

[Communication and Public Health: Approaches for Study and Practice]. Buenos

Aires: La Crujia, 2011.

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Articles in Refereed Journals

1. An argument for contrarian thinking: Michael Schudson’s contributions to political

communication research, Journalism Studies, 2017.

2. (with A. Amado) Populist communication by digital means: presidential Twitter in

Latin America, Information, Communication & Society, 9: 1330-1346, 2017.

3. Challenges to protecting journalists: How norm diffusion differs from norm

enforcement, Journalism & Communication Monographs 19 (2): 169-172, 2017.

4. (with A. Russell) Digital citizenship & surveillance: The Snowden revelations and the

networked Fourth Estate, International Journal of Communication, 11, 2017.

5. Communication studies without frontiers? Translation and cosmopolitanism across

academic cultures, International Journal of Communication 10: 868-886, 2016.

6. Three challenges for communication and global social change, Communication

Theory 25: 144-165, 2015.

7. (with T. Flew) The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of

media globalization, Media, Culture & Society, May 2015.

8. Remaking “area studies” in journalism studies, African Journalism Studies 36 (1): 30-

36, 2015.

9. (with C. Mellado), De-westernizing communication studies: A reassessment,

Communication Theory 24 (4): 361-372, 2014.

10. Where do we go next? Behavioral and social change for child survival, Journal of

Health Communication, 19:216-222, 2014.

11. A metatheory of mediatization and globalization? Journal of Multicultural

Discourses, 2013.

12. (with E. Coates, J. Awale, R. Solomon, and R. Dey) Successful polio eradication in

Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an

NGO/UNICEF collaboration, Global Health: Science and Practice 1 (1), 68-83,

2013.

13. Media policies and the blindspots of media globalization: Insights from Latin

America, Media, Culture & Society 35 (1): 132-138, 2013.

14. Democracy, journalism, and Latin American populism, Journalism 14 (4):504-521,

2013.

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15. (with M. Szurmuk) The impasse of the studies of media and culture in Latin America:

How to move forward, Westminster Papers of Communication and Culture 8 (1),

June 2011.

16. Between support and confrontation: Civic society, media reform, and populism in

Latin America, Communication, Culture and Critique 4: 97-117, March 2011.

17. Can NGOs change the news? International Journal of Communication, 5: 142–165,

2011.

18. Cuando la salud es titular: Dengue, gripe AH1N1 y ciclos “mediáticos-epidémicos”

(When health is the headline: Dengue fever, AH1N1 flu and media-epidemic cycles),

Folios (Colombia) 23: 93-104, 2010.

19. The pragmatic politics of media reform: Media movements and coalition-building in

Latin America, Global Media and Communication, 6 (2):133-153, 2010.

20. (with R. Obregon) The complexity of social mobilization in health communication:

Top-down and bottom-up experiences in polio eradication, Journal of Health

Communication 15 (1): 25-47, 2010.

21. (lead author, with E. Ogden, L. Shimp, and C. Morry) Communication for polio

eradication: Improving the quality of communication programming through real-time

monitoring and evaluation, Journal of Health Communication, 15 (1): 9-24, 2010.

22. Participatory communication for tuberculosis control in prisons in Bolivia, Ecuador,

and Paraguay, Pan American Journal of Public Health, 27 (3): 168-174, 2010.

23. (with E. Peruzzotti) The environmental story that wasn’t: Advocacy, journalism, and

the asambleismo movement in Argentina, Media, Culture & Society, 31(4): 691-709,

2009.

24. Research directions for global journalism studies: Ideas from Latin America,

Journalism, 10 (3), 2009.

25. The institutional challenges of participatory communication in international aid,

Social Identities, 14 (4): 505-522, 2008.

26. (with T. Michaelides and M. Rasmuson) Communication and social capital in the

control of avian influenza: Lessons from behaviour change experiences in the

Mekong region, Global Public Health 3(2): 197-213, 2008.

27. Beyond the medical-informational model: Recasting the role of communication in

tuberculosis control, Social Science & Medicine 65(10): 2130-2134, 2007.

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28. Missed opportunities: Communication in the Polio Eradication Initiative,

Communication for Development and Social Change, 1 (2): 145-165, 2007.

29. Democratic journalism and “statelessness,” Political Communication, 24:115-129,

2007.

30. When training is insufficient: Reflections on capacity development in health

promotion in Peru, Health Promotion International, 21(3):230-237, 2006.

31. McTV: Understanding the global popularity of television formats, Television and

New Media, 5 (4): 359-383, 2004. Re-published in Horace Newcomb ed., Television:

A Critical View, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 2006; McTv. Bidrag til en

forståelse af tv-formaternes globale popularitet,, MedieKultur (Sweden) 39: 14-27.

32. Scandals, media, and citizenship in contemporary Argentina, American Behavioral

Scientist, 47: 1072-1098, 2004.

33. (with H. Tumber) Introduction: Political scandals and media across democracies,

American Behavioral Scientist, 47: 1031 – 1039, 1143 – 1152, 2004.

34. Cinco idéias-chave: Coincidências e desafios na comunicação para o

desenvolvimento, Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação 26, 2

July/December 2003. Republished Five Key Ideas: Coincidences and Challenges in

Development Communication, in Thomas Tufte and Oscar Hemer eds., Media &

Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development. Nordicom and

CLACSO, 2005.

35. Antipress violence and the crisis of the state, Harvard International Journal

Press/Politics, 7 (3): 90-109, 2002.

36. The challenges of investigative journalism, University of Miami Law Journal, 56 (1):

377-395, 2002.

37. Introduction: Journalism and new technologies, Journalism (2) 2:171-173, August

2001.

38. The ties that still bind: Media and national cultures in Latin America, Canadian

Journal of Communication, 23: 381-401, 1998. A Portuguese translation was

published in Comunicação & Politica (Brazil) 6, 1: 185-208, January-April 1999.

39. When the cart of media is before the horse of identity: A critique of technology-

centered views on globalization, Communication Research 25 (4): 377-398, 1998.

40. What’s the online news? Digital dailies in Latin America, Electronic Journal of

Communication, 7 (2), 1997.

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41. Can investigative journalism tell the truth? The modernity of journalism in Latin

America, Ecquid Novi 18 (1): 115-131, 1997. A revised version in Spanish “¿Nada

mas que la verdad? Periodismo fiscalizador, investigación y modernidad [Only the

Truth? Watchdog Journalism, Investigation and Modernity] published in Diálogos de

la Comunicación, 51: 47-59, 1998. Lima, Perú.

42. The narrative of exposes in South American journalism: Telling the story of

Collorgate, Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 59 (3):

189-198, 1997.

43. Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies,

Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 13: 343-363, 1996.

44. Leviathan dreams: State and broadcasting in Latin America, The Communication

Review 1 (2): 201-226, 1995.

45. Farewell to public spaces? Electoral campaigns and street spectacle in Argentina,

Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 15: 279-300, 1995.

46. Knocking on newsroom doors: Press and political scandals in Argentina, Political

Communication 11: 19-33, Spring 1994.

47. Television and election campaigns in contemporary Argentina, Journal of

Communication 44 (2): 125-135, Spring 1994.

48. Politics and Identity in the Argentine army: Cleavages and the generational factor,

Latin American Research Review 26 (2): 57-70, Spring 1991.

Chapters in Books

1. (with T. Tucker and Z. Lichtenheld) Trump and the great disruption in public

communication, in Pablo Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi Eds, Trump and the

Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, forthcoming.

2. El periodismo en contextos de mutación e incertidumbre (Preface), in A. Amado,

editor, El periodismo por los periodistas: Perfiles profesionales en las democracias

de América Latina. Buenos Aires: Konrad Adenauer, 2017.

3. Crisis y post-profesionalismo en el periodismo contemporáneo (Preface), in Pablo

Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein, Editors, Titulares, hashtags y videojuegos.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Manantial, 2017.

4. Crisis? What crisis? in C. Peters and M. Broersma (Eds.), Rethinking Journalism

Again: Societal Role and Public Relevance in a Digital Age. Routledge, 2016.

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5. Professional ethics and journalistic performance beyond the West, in C. Mellado, L.

Hellmueller, and W. Donsbach, Editors, Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts,

Models, and Measures. Routledge, 2016.

6. Media sociology, in Klaus Bruhn Jensen, International Encyclopedia of

Communication Theory and Philosophy. Wiley, 2016.

7. Preface, Petracci, Mónica (Ed.) 2016. La Salud en la Trama Comunicacional

Contemporánea. Buenos Aires: Prometeo.

8. The “post-state” argument and its problems: Lessons from media policy reforms in

Latin America, in Terry Flew et al, Editors, Global Media and National Policies:

The Return of the State, 32-48. Palgrave, 2015.

9. El optimismo digi-activista y sus problemas, in A. Amado and Omar Rincón Eds.,

Re-invención de los discursos de la comunicación. Bogotá: Fundación Ebert, 2015.

10. Media advocacy, in Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Editor, International Encyclopedia of

Political Communication. Wiley, 2015.

11. Watchdog journalism, in Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Editor, International Encyclopedia of

Political Communication. Wiley, 2015.

12. (with A. Amado) Periodismo partido al medio, in A. Amado (Ed.), La comunicación

pública como espectáculo. Buenos Aires: Fundación Adenauer, 2015, 213-292.

13. La “mediatización” de la violencia y la seguridad ciudadana, in Roberto Samar, Ed.,

Inseguridades. Neuquén: Universidad Nacional del Comahue, 2015.

14. (with A. Amado) Divided we stand: Blurred boundaries in Argentine journalism, in

M. Carlson and S. Lewis, Editors, Boundaries of Journalism. Routledge, 2015.

15. The shifting boundaries of jazz and/in popular culture, in Toby Miller, Editor,

Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture. Routledge, 2015.

16. The politics of policy-making and the “global turn” in media studies, in Manuel

Alejandro Guerrero and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Editors, Globalization, Media

Policies & Cultural Markets in Latin America. Palgrave, 2014.

17. (with M. Becerra and G. Mastrini) A globalized industry: Television regulation and

ownership, In Toby Miller, Milly Buonanno and Herman Gray eds., Sage Handbook

of Television Studies. Sage, 2014.

18. Introduction to Carlos Salinas Maldonado’s “A decimated Chichigalpa buries its

dead,” in Anya Schiffrin, Editor, Global Muckraking, 266. New Press, 2014.

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19. De-Westernization and Cosmopolitan Media Studies, in Chin-Chuan Chan, Editor,

Internationalizing “International Communication,” 178-200. University of Michigan

Press, 2014.

20. Citizen journalism, development and social change: Hype and hope, in Stuart Allan

and Einar Thorsen, Editors, Citizen Journalism, 185-198. Peter Lang, 2014.

21. The strategic politics of participatory communication: Where strategic

communication and communication for social change (should) meet, in Rafael

Obregon, Thomas Tufte, and Karin Wilkins, Editors, The Handbook of Development

Communication and Social Change. Wiley, 2014.

22. (with F. Paulino) The development of Brazilian news and journalism, Lue Book of

Global Media, 2013.

23. Contesting extractivism: Media and environmental citizenship in Latin America, in

Brett Hutchins and Libby Lester, Editors, Environmental Conflict and the Media.

Peter Lang, 2013.

24. Media sociology, In Patricia Moy ed., Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2012.

25. Political communication in Latin America, In Holli Semetko and Margaret Scamell

eds., Handbook of Political Communication. Routledge, 2012.

26. Models and bureaucratic imperatives in international media assistance. In Monroe

Price and Susan Abbott editors, Evaluating the Evaluators: Measures of Press

Freedom and Media Contributions to Development, 321-337. Palgrave, 2011.

27. Prologue, In Ricardo Thornton and Gustavo Cimadevilla Editors, Usos y abusos del

participare [Uses and abuses of participare], 17-21. Buenos Aires: INTA, 2010.

28. Press and the public sphere in contemporary Latin America. In Pippa Norris eds.,

Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform. Washington: World Bank,

2010.

29. (with S. Jalfin) Imagining the nation: Gatekeepers and the localization of television

franchises. In Albert Moran editor, TV Formats: Localizing Global Programs, 55-74.

Intellect, 2009.

30. Bridging the press-civic society divide: Civic media advocacy in Latin America. In

Ulla Carlson editor, Media and Social Divides, NORDICOM, 2009. A Spanish

version, “Tender puentes entre la prensa y la sociedad civil,” was published in

Comunicación (Venezuela), 145: 4-13, 2009.

31. News coverage of risk. In Christopher Sterling editor, Encyclopedia of Journalism.

Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2009.

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32. Periodismo y democracia donde no hay Estado. In Andrés Canizalez editor, Tiempos

de Cambio: Política y Comunicación en América Latina. Caracas: Universidad

Andrés Bello, 2009.

33. (with S. Craft) When foreign news are foreign. In Elisabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius and

Angela Phillips editors, Transnational Media Events: The Mohammed Cartoons and

the Imagined Clash of Civilizations, 133-150. Goteborg: NORDICOM, 2008.

34. Advocacy journalism in a global context: The ‘journalist’ and the ‘civic’ model. In

Karin Wohl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch editors, Handbook of Journalism

Studies, 371-385. London: New York, 2008.

35. Participación comunitaria. In Mónica Szurmuk and Robert McKee Irwin eds.,

Diccionario de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 2009. An

English version will be published by the University of Florida, forthcoming.

36. Modernization. In Wolfgang Donsbach editor, International Encyclopedia of

Communication, 3151-3156, 2007.

37. In journalism we trust? Credibility and fragmented journalism in Latin America. In

Katrin Voltmer editor, Mass Media and Political Communication in New

Democracies. London: Routledge, 2006.

38. Linking communication for campaign and routine immunization: In need of a bifocal

view. In Muhiuddin Haider editor, Global Public Health Communication, 275-290.

Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.

39. (with M. Schudson) Toward a political sociology of the news media. In Thomas

Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and Mildred A. Schwartz editors, The

Handbook of Political Sociology, 350-366. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

2005.

40. Media and the reinvention of the nation. In John Downing et al. editors, Handbook of

Media Studies, 375-392. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. Re-published in Spanish in

Lila Luchessi and Maria Graciela Rodriguez Eds., Fronteras Globales: Cultura,

Política y Medios de Comunicación. Buenos Aires: La Crujia.

41. (with R. Zeta de Pozo and F. Ruiz), Los medios de comunicación en América Latina.

In Carlos Barrera editor, Historia del Periodismo Universal, 319-374. Madrid: Ariel,

2004.

42. (with J. Deane) The other information revolution: Media and empowerment in

developing countries. In Bruce Girard and Sean O Siochrú editors, Communicating in

the Information Society, 65-100. Geneva: UNRISD, 2004.

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43. Media populism: Neopopulism in Latin America. In Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Bruce

Horsfield, and Julianne Stewart editors, The Media and Neo-Populist Movements,

197-216. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Republished in Portuguese in, Contracampo 28,

2013. http://www.uff.br/contracampo/index.php/revista/article/view/617,

44. Journalism, risk and patriotism. In Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan, editors,

Journalism after September 11, 201-219. London: Routledge, 2002. Revised and

updated, Journalism after September 11 2nd edition, 273-291, 2011.

45. State of the media in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Encyclopedia of

International Media and Communications, 2002.

46. Interpretando los escándalos: Análisis de su relación con los medios y la ciudadanía

en la Argentina contemporánea (Interpreting Scandals: Media and citizenship in

contemporary Argentina). In Enrique Peruzzotti y Catalina Smulovitz editors,

Controlando la Política: Ciudadanos y Medios en las Nuevas Democracias. Buenos

Aires, Editorial Temas, 2002.

47. State, development, and communication. In William Gudykunst and Bella Mody eds.,

Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication 437-455. Sage, 2001.

48. (with N. Morris) Introduction: Rethinking media globalization and state power. In

Nancy Morris and Silvio Waisbord eds., Media and Globalization: Why the State

Matters, vii-xvi. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2001.

49. Media in South America: Between the rock of the state and the hard place of the

market. In James Curran and Myung-Jin Park editors, De-Westernizing Media

Studies, 50-62. London: Routledge, 2000.

50. The unfinished project of media democratization in Argentina. In Patrick O'Neil

editor, Communicating Democracy: The Media & Political Transitions, 41-62.

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rinner, 1999. Revised version of a paper presented at the

International Conference on Media & Politics, Brussels, Belgium. February 1997.

51. Latin America. In Anthony Smith editor, Television: An International History, 254-

263. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

52. The market deluge: Privatization, concentration and new technologies in the

Argentine Media. In Alan B. Albarran and Sylvia Chan-Olmsted editors, Global

Media Economics: Commercialization, Concentration and Integration of World

Media Markets, 81-96. Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1998.

53. Secular politics: The modernization of Argentine electioneering. In Paolo Mancini

and David L. Swanson editors, Politics, Media and Modern Democracy, 207-225.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

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54. The mass media and consolidation of democracy in South America. In Philo Wasburn

editor, Research in Political Sociology, Volume 7, 207-227. Greenwich, CT: JAI

Press, 1995.

Articles in Non-Refereed Academic Publications, Reports, and Popular Periodicals

1. (with A. Amado) La comunicación pública después de la era de los medios masivos:

Mutaciones e interrogantes, Nueva Sociedad, 269: 96-109, 2017.

2. Preface, Thomas Tufte’s Communication and Social Change: A Citizen Perspective,

Polity, 2017.

3. Diversidad, diferencia, tolerancia: Revisando utopías democráticas a la luz de la

comunicación digital, Memorias de FELAFACS, October 2015.

4. (with Jo Tacchi), Beyond the impasse – Exploring new thinking in communication

and social change, Nordicom Review 36, 97-110, 2015.

5. (with M. Becerra) Principios y “buenas prácticas” para los medios públicos en

América Latina (Principles and “best practices” for public media in Latin America),

UNESCO, 2015.

6. ¿Qué post-liberalismo? Liberalismo, populismo y comunicación pública,

Observatorio Latinoamericano 14, Universidad de Buenos Aires, October 2014.

7. United and fragmented: Communication and media studies in Latin America, Journal

of Latin American Communication Research 4 (1), 2014

http://alaic.net/journal/index.php/jlacr/article/view/95/77

8. Qué sabemos sobre el impacto de los medios en el crimen? Boletín de Seguridad

Ciudadana, Universidad de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), October 2013.

9. Breaking up is hard to do, Americas Quarterly, Fall 2013: 3-7.

10. (with N. Morris) Nuevas direcciones para la investigación en comunicación

participativa, Revista Mexicana de Comunicación, April-June 2013.

11. Cambios y continuidades: La agenda de investigación de la comunicación política en

América Latina, Austral Comunicación (Argentina), 2013.

12. Out with the old? Media systems and political communication in Latin America,

Political Communication Newsletter,

http://www.politicalcommunication.org/newsletter_22_2_feature.html

13. Media 1.5, Americas Quarterly, 6 (1), Winter 2012, 44-48.

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14. Repensar la agenda de investigación en la academia globalizada, Telos (Spain) 90

January-March, 2012.

15. Medios, fondos públicos, y calidad democrática en América Latina [Media, public

funds, and the quality of democracy], Organization of American States, 2011.

16. Switching development tracks? Commentary on “Public Media and Political

Independence: Lessons for the Future of Journalism from Around the World" by

Rodney Benson and Matthew Powers, http://www.savethenews.org/public-

media/international-models, February 2011.

17. Regulating Hate Speech in the Bolivian Media: Underlying Issues, Jurist: Legal news

and Research, http://jurist.org/forum/2010/11/regulating-hate-speech-in-the-bolivian-

media-underlying-issues.php

18. An All-Out Media War: It’s Clarin vs. the Kirchners, and journalism is the loser,

Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2010.

19. Profesionalización en debate [The debate over professionalization], Anuario FOPEA

(Argentina), 22-23, 2010.

20. (with J. Deane) How to use communication to make aid effective: Strategies and

principles for Programme-based Approaches, BBC World Service Trust, 2010.

21. Where is communication in the Millennium Development Goals? Media

Development 3/2006, 3-7. Reprinted in Spanish in Comunicación (Venezuela), 137,

10-15.

22. The irony of communication for social change, MAZI, August 2007,

www.communicationforsocialchange.org

23. Communicating communication, Media Development 2005/2. Originally published in

The Communication Initiative, February 7, 2005,

http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_285.html

24. (with H. Larson) Why Invest in Communication for Immunization? Evidence and

Lessons Learned. Baltimore: Heath Communication Partnership, Johns Hopkins

University, 2005.

25. (with G. Coe) Comunicación, periodismo, salud y desafíos para el nuevo milenio,

Razón y Palabra (Mexico), 2004 www.razonypalabra.org.mx

26. Grandes gigantes: Media concentration in Latin America, OpenDemocracy,

www.opendemocracy.org, February 27, 2002.

27. Family tree of theories, methodologies, and strategies in development

communication: Convergences and differences, 2001 The Communication Initiative,

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www.comminit.org. Republished in Jan Servaes, Ed. Springer Handbook of

Communication for Development and Social Change. Partially republished in Alfonso

Gumucio-Dagron and Thomas Tufte Eds., Communication for Social Change

Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, 561-566. Communication for

Social Change Consortium.

28. Nuevas tendencias y escenarios futuros en el periodismo: Oportunidades para el

periodismo en salud [New trends and future scenarios in journalism: Opportunities

for health journalism], Dia-logos de la Comunicación, July 2001, 84-95.

29. Hasta la vista public broadcasting, Open Democracy, www.opendemocracy.org

August 9, 2001.

30. El buen periodismo: Las contradicciones irresueltas del periodismo de investigación

[The good journalism: The unsolved contradictions of investigative journalism],

Contribuciones 2 (2001):105-116.

31. Why Democracy Needs Investigative Journalism, Global Issues, April 2001 6 (1)

http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl Also published as Por qué la

democracia necesita del periodismo de investigación, Sala de Prensa 32 (June 2001)

www.saladeprensa.org

32. Entre bien público y bien privado: Definiendo la información en la sociedad de la

información [Between public and private good: defining information in the

information society], Reflexiones Académicas (Santiago, Chile), June 2001. A

previous version was presented at the Asociación Iberoamericana de Comunicación

(IBERCOM) conference, Santiago de Chile, April 2000.

33. Industria global, culturas y políticas locales: La internacionalización de la televisión

latinoamericana [Global industry, local cultures and politics: The internationalization

of Latin American television], América Latina Hoy 25 (Salamanca, Spain) (August

2000): 77-85. A previous version was presented at the Asociación Latinomericana de

Investigadores de Comunicación (ALAIC) conference, Santiago de Chile, April 2000.

34. Repensar la prensa en las democracias latinoamericanas [Rethinking the press in

Latin American democracies], Problèmes d'Amérique Latine.

35. La política del palo: Violence against the press, Hemisphere, 9 (2): 30-33, Spring

2000. Article also published in Pulso del Periodismo,

www.pulso.org/espanol/articulos/silviobody.htm

36. Latin American press follows Clinton scandal with fascination, incomprehension.

Free, The Freedom Forum Online

www.freedomforum.org/international/1998/10/7telenovelas. asp

37. What’s in a name? The many lives of alternative media. Media Development 45 (3):

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45-48, 1998.

38. Campañas electorales en América Latina y Estados Unidos: Una perspectiva

comparada de campañas [Election Campaigns in Latin America and in the United

States: A Comparative Approach], Contribuciones 14 (2):159-182, 1997. Buenos

Aires, Argentina.

39. Promesas y dudas del periodismo cibernético [Promises and Doubts of

CyberJournalism], Pulso del Periodismo (Abril/Junio) 26: 38-39, 1996. Miami,

Florida. A Portuguese version was published in May 1997 in the online edition of

Conex@o, Brazil, www.conexao.com.br/colunas/waisbord.htm.

40. Contando Historias de Corrupção: Narrativa de Telenovela e Moralidade Populista no

caso Collorgate [Telling Stories of Corruption: Soap Opera Narrative and Populist

Morality in Collorgate] Comunicação & Politica (May-August) 3, 2: 94-110, 1996.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

41. Escándalos: La Prensa y la Política en el Perú y America Latina [Scandals: Press and

Politics in Perú and Latin America]. Argumentos (August) 27: 7-9, 1995. Lima, Perú.

42. A Sign of the Times: Television and Electoral Politics in Argentina, 1983-1989.

Kellogg Working Papers #190, University of Notre Dame.

43. Medios de Comunicación y Campañas Electorales [Mass Media and Election

Campaigns] Doxa, Spring-Summer: 33-47, 1991/1992. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

44. (with H. Muraro and M. Petracci), La Industria Cinematográfica Argentina entre

1976-1983 [The Argentine Filmmaking Industry, 1976-1983] Instituto para América

Latina (IPAL), 1987. Lima, Perú.

Selected articles in newspapers, websites and other publications

1. ¿Por qué es tan difícil dejar de creer en la información falsa? New York Times

(Spanish Edition), https://www.nytimes.com/es/2017/05/26/por-que-es-tan-dificil-

dejar-de-creer-en-la-informacion-falsa/?mcubz=2

2. Estados Unidos: Certezas e incertidumbres en las telecomunicaciones en la era

Trump, Observacom, http://www.observacom.org/estados-unidos-certezas-e-

incertidumbres-en-las-telecomunicaciones-en-la-era-trump/

3. Trump y la prensa bajo presión, Clarin, December 8, 2016

http://www.clarin.com/opinion/Trump-prensa-presion_0_1701429843.html

4. Demagogos fogueando la ignorancia, Clarin, October 25, 2016

http://www.clarin.com/opinion/Demagogos-fogueando-

ignorancia_0_1675032643.html

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5. Los límites de Trump, Clarin, July 16, 2016

http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/ideas/limites-Trump_0_1597640241.html

6. Final impredecible para un candidato inesperado, La Nación, June 1, 2016,

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1904524-final-impredecible-para-un-candidato-

inesperado

7. Panama Papers; Florece la primavera de la transparencia

http://www.clarin.com/opinion/Panama-Papers-florece-primavera-

transparencia_0_1559844392.html

8. UN round importante en la larga pelea por la neutralidad d ela Red, Observacom,

http://observacom.org/un-round-importante-en-la-larga-pelea-por-la-neutralidad-de-la-

red/, April 2015.

9. Balancing Charlie Hebdo, freedom of the press and social responsibility, The Hatchet

(GWU), January 22, 2015.

10. Who speaks for public media in Latin America? World Bank, November 2014

https://blogs.worldbank.org/latinamerica/who-speaks-public-media-latin-

america?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT

11. Estados Unidos: La instintiva ilusión de la diversidad mediática, November 2014,

Observacom.org, http://observacom.org/estados-unidos-la-instintiva-ilusion-de-la-

diversidad-mediatica/

12. La lógica “amigo/enemigo”, marca nacional, Clarin (Argentina), October 14, 2014.

13. De la concepción individual a la acción social, El Mercurio (Chile), May 11, 2014.

14. How Putin and his ilk are redefining democracy — Big Brother-style, The Weeek

Wonk, April 15, 2014, http://theweek.com/article/index/259959/how-putin-and-his-ilk-

are-redefining-democracy-mdash-big-brother-style

15. The developing story of a plane puzzle, The Hatchet (GWU), March 19, 2014

16. El tiempo de Francisco, Página/12 (Argentina), December 18, 2013

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/laventana/26-235908-2013-12-18.html

17. Contradicciones de una contienda retórica con objetivos políticos, La Nación

(Argentina), November 3, 2013.

18. Ironías comunicacionales del populismo, Clarín, August 14, 2013.

19. Obama y Romney, el factor debate, La Nación (Argentina), October 26, 2012.

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20. Ética periodística, un debate necesario [Journalistic ethics, a necessary debate), La

Nación (Argentina), August 11, 2012.

21. El valor de las conferencias de prensa [The value of press conferences], La Nación

(Argentina), April 5, 2012

22. Morbo con apoyo oficial [Morbidity with oficial support], La Nación (Argentina),

February 16, 2012.

23. La diversidad de los medios, los medios en diversidad [Media diversity, the media in

diversity], Página/12 (Argentina), January 25, 2012.

24. El poder de los medios [Media power], La Nación (Argentina), September 31, 2011.

25. El error del periodismo militante [The mistake of partisan journalism], La Nación

(Argentina), January 12, 2011.

26. La irrupción del “Wikiperiodismo” [The rise of Wikijournalism], La Nación

(Argentina), December 12, 2010.

Book Reviews and Notes

1. Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change by

June Lennie and Jo Tacchi, The Communication Review, 16: 178-180, 2013.

2. In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina by Karen

Ann Faulk, Journal of Latin American Studies 45, 615-617, 2013.

3. Posthegemony by Jon Beasley, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics,

2012.

4. Negotiating Democracy, edited by Isaac Blankson and Patrick Murphy, Political

Communication 26 (4): 479-481, 2009.

5. Latin America, Media and Revolution: Communication in Modern Mesoamerica by

Juanita Darling, Journal of Communication, 59 (1): 195-196, 2009.

6. The Myths of Media Globalization by Kai Hafez, British Journal of Sociology, 59

(3): 592 - 594, 2008.

7. Newsrooms in Conflict by Sallie Hughes, Democratization, 14 (3), 521-523, 2007.

8. Media Power in Central America by Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus, The

Americas 61 (4), 729-730, 2005.

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9. Political Scandals by John B. Thompson, Contemporary Sociology, 2002.

10. Social Meanings of News edited by Dan Berkowitz, Media Development, 1998.

11. Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media and Society by Richard

Cole ed., Media, Culture and Society 19 (4), 1997.

Presentations

Invited talks

Keynote presentations

1. Mapping out media development: Ideas for research and practice, IAMCR Pre-

conference meeting “Reflections on Foreign Aid, Philanthropy and Change in Media

Systems,: Cartagena, Colombia, July 2017.

2. Populism and the dangers of anti-liberal communication, ANZCA Conference,

Sydney, Australia, July 2017.

3. Why populism is troubling for democratic communication, Final conference of the

NCRR Democracy, University of Zurich, Zurich, June 2017.

4. Are all populisms comparable? Insights from comparative media and communication

studies" St Petersburg State University, April 2017.

5. Communication: A post-discipline, Thomas Jay Harris Distinguished Lecturer, Texas

Technology University, November 2016.

6. Plenary panel, Mas allá de la sociedad de la información: Expresión pública,

desconexiones y comunicación, Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores en

Comunicación (ALAIC), México City, October 2016.

7. Pensar la comunicación del posconflicto y la paz: aproximaciones a dos escenarios

diversos, Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia, April 2016.

8. Y si el periodismo no fuera profesional? Crisis y transición en el periodismo

contemporáneo, Conference Medios y Sociedad, Universidad de San Andrés -

Northwestern University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November, 2015.

9. Keynote panel, Conference, Medios libres e independientes en sistemas mediáticos

plurales y diversos, organized by the Organization of American States, Bogotá,

Colombia, November 2015.

10. Diversidad, diferencia y tolerancia: Revisando utopías democráticas a la luz de la

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comunicación digital, Encuentro Latinoamericano de Facultades de Comunicación,

Medellin, October 2015.

11. International journalism studies, School of International and Intercultural

Communication, University of Dortmund, November 2014.

12. Conference, The Unlovable Press: Conversations with Michael Schudson, University

of Groningen, June 16-17, 2014.

13. Conference, Media and governance in Latin America, University of Sheffield, May

2014.

14. 4th Conference ICA América Latina, organized by ALAIC and ICA, Brasilia, March

2014.

15. Conference, Horizontes de investigación en los Estudios sobre Periodismo,

Universidad Iberoamericana, México City, February 28, 2014.

16. Conference Beyond the Impasse: Exploring New Thinking in Communication for

Social Change, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, January 2013.

17. Conference Comunicación para la Paz, Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia,

August 2012.

18. First International Congress of Journalism Studies, Santiago, Chile, June 2012.

19. Global studies and political journalism, Congress on Political Journalism, Valladolid,

Spain, May 2011.

20. Annual National Congress of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in

Journalism, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2008.

21. Family tree of theories and strategies in development communication. Meeting

organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Agency for

International Development, Bellagio, Italy, October 2000.

Other invited presentations

Department of Communication, University of Washington, May 2017.

School of Communication, University of Miami, March 2017.

Guest Professor, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, 2016-2017.

Libertad de Expresión y Medios Plurales para las Democracias del Mundo, Santiago de

Chile, July 2016.

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Foro Iberoamericano de Cátedras Unesco en Comunicación, Universidad de Lima, Lima,

Peru, May 2016.

The political public sphere, Freie University, Berlin, November 2014.

Foro sobre Medios Públicos, Canal 11 and World Bank, Mexico City, October 2014.

Keynote panel, Qualitative Political Communication, Annual conference of the

International Communication Association, Seattle, May 2014.

Goldsmiths College, conference Radicalism and Reform in Latin America, May 2014.

Betwixt and between: Professionalism in Journalism, University of Tampere, January

2014.

Reinventing professionalism, Høgskolen i Oslo, Oslo, January 2014.

Media in Latin America, NOLAN conference, Oslo, November 2013.

Experts’ meeting, UN Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Rio de Janeiro, October

2013.

Press freedom, press standards, and democracy in Latin America, Columbia University,

May 2-3, 2013.

Media systems, Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 2013.

Threats and opportunities to the Business of Journalism and its role in Democracy,

University of Helsinki/Reuters Institute at Oxford University, October 2011.

Experts’ meeting, Carter Center, Americas Program, May 2011.

Internationalizing International Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong

Kong, December 2010.

Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age, series of five lectures in five cities in

Brazil. Invited by Brazil’s National Association of Newspapers, October 2010.

Making Civic News: NGOs and Journalism, The Journalism School, Columbia

University, New York, March 2010.

El rol del estado en la reforma de medios [The role of the state in media reform]

Fundación Violeta Chamorro, Managua, Nicaragua, March 2010.

Democracia y Web 2.0 [Democracy and Web 2.0], Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos

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Aires, Argentina, October 2009.

NGO as gatekeepers, London School of Economics and the Annenberg School for

Communication, University of Pennsylvania, London, September 2008.

Media and global divides, Plenary session, International Association of Mass

Communication Research, Stockholm, July 2008.

Media and accountability seminar, World Bank, Washington, DC, June 2008.

The roles of the news media in democratic governance, organized by the World Bank and

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2008.

How journalism works: A research agenda for Latin American media studies, University

of Miami, February 2008.

(with E. Peruzzotti) The environmental story that wasn’t: Advocacy, journalism, and the

asambleismo movement in Argentina, Conference “Media and Democracy in Latin

America,” Tulane University, New Orleans, 2007.

(with S. Craft) Journalistic metanarratives in the cartoon controversy, Conference

organized by CulComm, Oslo, December 2007.

Theory and practice in development communication, Ohio University, Athens, OH, April

2007.

Los medios en la lucha contra la corrupción, [Media and anti-corruption initiatives]

World Bank Institute, World Bank, June 2001. Washington, D.C.

Vision and Politics in Latin America, New School for Social Research, New York, April

2001.

Globalization and Television in Latin America, New York University, March 2001.

Investigative Journalism and Corruption, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Managua,

Nicaragua, September 2000.

Políticas de Control Ciudadano [Politics of Citizen Accountability], Universidad di Tella,

Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2000.

Undercover/Investigative Reporting in the Information Age: Public Interest or Invasion

of Privacy? School of Social and Human Sciences, City University, London, England,

April 2000.

Journalism and New Media in Latin America, Center for Latin American and Caribbean

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Studies, New York University, November 1999.

The Transformation of Civic Life, Middle Tennessee State University, November 1999.

South American Journalism Education, Freedom Forum, Buenos Aires, Argentina,

October 1999.

II Colloquium on Communication and Cultural Industries in NAFTA and Mercosur,

University of Texas at Austin, June 1999.

Behind the Headlines: Ethics and the Media in the Americas, Carnegie Council on Ethics

and International Affairs, New York, April 1999.

Media, Scandals and Political Accountability in Menem’s Argentina, Roundtable “A

Fragile Stability? Politics and Economy in Argentina Today,” Program in Latin American

Studies, Princeton University, March 1999.

Campañas Electorales y los Medios [Election Campaigns and Media], Konrad Adenauer

Foundation, Santiago, Chile, April 1999.

Building Cooperation Among Media Policy Research and Advocacy Centers, Bellagio

Study Rockefeller Conference Center, Italy, Programme in Comparative Media Law &

Policy, Oxford University, November 1998.

Periodismo de investigación y corrupción [Investigative journalism and corruption],

Centro Latinoamericano de Periodistas, Panamá, Panamá, July 1998.

Modernización y Americanización: Una Tendencia General de las Campañas Electorales

de Hoy? [Modernization and Americanization: A Trend in Contemporary Election

Campaigns?]. “Campañas Electorales en America Latina,” Konrad Adenauer Foundation

and Universidad de Lima, Lima, Perú, July 1998.

Straddling Traditions: Watchdog Journalism and Professionalism in the Brazilian Press,

Conference “The Role of the Media in the Consolidation of Democracy in Brazil,”

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Washington, DC, May 1998.

Repensando la Etica en los Medios Latinoamericanos [Rethinking Ethics in Latin

American Media]. Presented at the Universidad Católica, Asunción, Paraguay. March

1998.

Agenda for Press Freedom in Latin America, Freedom Forum International Division.

Washington, D.C., April 8, 1998.

Democratizing Global Communications, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November

1997.

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Cultural Boundaries: Identity and Communication in Latin America, University of

Stirling. Stirling, Scotland, October 1996.

The Challenge of Citizenship: Journalism and New Technologies in South America,

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). New York,

June 1996.

Refereed conference papers

Between support and confrontation: Civic society, media reform, and populism in Latin

America, conference of the International Association of Mass Communication Research,

Braga, Portugal, 2010.

The pragmatic politics of media reform, conference of the International Communication

Association, Singapore, 2010.

Media democratization: The case for political approaches to development, conference of

the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 2010.

(with A. Jones) Impact of real-world conditions on media assistance programs,

conference of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 2010.

The professionalization of advocacy journalism, conference of the International

Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.

Operational models and bureaucratic imperatives in the global promotion of media

diversity, conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.

Risk news and global health, conference of the International Communication Association,

San Francisco, 2007.

Misunderstanding communication: Reflection of the experience of communication

programs in the Polio Eradication Initiative, Conference of the International

Communication Association, New York, 2005.

Conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, 2003.

Post-National Citizenship and Its Limitations: A View from Media Studies, conference of

the International Communication Association, Acapulco, 2000.

(with Nancy Morris) Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters, UNESCO

conference, Paris, June 1999.

Reading Scandals: Scandals, Media and Citizenship in Argentina, conference of the

International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 1999.

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Nation-bounded: Regional Media and the Politics of Television Sports in Latin America,

Conference of the International Communication Association, Jerusalem, Israel, July

1998.

Latin American Television and National Identities. Presented at the Conference of the

International Communication Association (ICA). Chicago, 1996.

Habermas, Street Events and Politics in Public Spaces. Presented at the conference of the

International Communication Association. New Mexico, 1995.

LatinTVSpace and the Dilemmas of Globalization in the Americas. Presented at the Latin

American Culture Program of the University of Pennsylvania, April 1995.

Editorships, Editorial Boards, and Reviewing Activities for Journals and Other

Learned Publications

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Communication, 2015-2018.

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics, 2008-2014.

Member, Latin American Program Advisory Board, Open Society Foundations

Guest Editor

Communication Theory, Questioning Geocultural Boundaries of Communication

Theories: De-Westernization, Cosmopolitalism and Globalization, co-edited with Claudia

Mellado, 2015.

Journalism, Journalism and new technologies, August 2001.

Editorial Board member

Anthem Press (Communication and Media Series 2011-present)

Asociación de Comunicación Política (Spain, 2010-present)

Austral Comunicación (2011-present)

Brazilian Journalism Research (2002-present)

Comunicazione Politica (2005-present)

Conversaciones del Cono Sur (2015-present)

Cuadernos de Información (Chile, 2013-present)

Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia, (Brasil, 2013-present)

Journalism (1998-present)

Palgrave, Communication for Social Change Book Series (2012-present), Transforming

communications Book Series (2015-present)

Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (2009-present)

Worlds of Journalism Study’s Scientific Advisory Committee (2011-2012).

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Manuscript Reviewer

Journals

Acta Poética (Mexico), 2006

African Journal of Microbiology

Research, 2010

African Journalism Studies, 2016

American Behavioral Scientist, 2009

American Political Science Review,

2012

Brazilian Journalism Review (Brazil),

2005, 2007

Canadian Journal of Communication,

1998

Comunicacion & Sociedad (Spain), 2016

Communication, Critique & Culture,

2011

Communication Theory, 1999, 2014,

2017

Comparative Political Studies, 2013

Comunicazione Politica (Italy), 2006

Critical Studies in Mass

Communication, 2005-2007

Global Journal of Communication, 2009

Harvard International Journal of

Press/Politics, 1999

Health Policy and Planning, 2011

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses,

2010

International Journal of Communication,

2010-13

International Journal of Digital

Television, 2016

International Journal of Press/Politics,

2016-2017

Journal of Communication, 1998

Journal of Development and

Communication Studies, 2014

Journal of Health Communication, 2011,

2013, 2014, 2016

Journal of Media Economics, 1998

Journal of Multicultural Discourses,

2014

Journal of Politics in Latin America,

2016

Journalism, 1998-present

Journalism Studies, 2013

Media, Culture & Society, 2009, 2010,

2013

Mobilization, 2005

New Media and Society, 2015

Political Communication, 2006, 2008

Salud Colectiva (Argentina), 2012

Scandinavian Political Studies, 2010

Social Identities, 2016

Social Science & Medicine, 2006, 2009,

2010

Sociology, 2008

Sociology Compass, 2015

The Communication Review, 1996-1997

The Lancet, 2007

Book manuscripts, prospectus, and entries

Cambridge University Press (2004,

2008, 2012)

Columbia University Press (2015)

Hampton Press (2001)

Oxford University Press (2010, 2017)

Palgrave (2014, 2016)

Polity Press (2005, 2010, 2012, 2013,

2015)

Routledge (2013, 2014)

SAGE (2013)

University of Pittsburgh Press (2010).

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Conference papers

International Communication Association

Global Communication and Social Change Division (2001-2013)

Mass Communication Division (2003)

Intercultural/Development Division (2007)

Journalism Studies (2010)

Political Communication (2010)

AEJMC

International Communication Division (1998)

Grants

Grant. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Rutgers University, 1996.

Grant. Research Development Committee, School of Communication, Information and

Library Studies. Rutgers University, 1996.

Research Grant. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California,

San Diego, 1990.

Research Grant. Tinker Foundation, through the Center for Iberian and Latin American

Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1988.

Research Grant. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1986-7.

Travel Grant. Fulbright Commission, 1987.

Prizes, Awards and Fellowships

Prize

AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize, Media Movements: Civil Society and Media

Reform in Latin America, 2017.

Awards

Research Award, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University, 2000.

Goldsmith Research Award, The Joan Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of

Government, Harvard University, 1995.

Best Conference Theme Paper, “Media, National Identity and the Politics of Space: Latin

America in the Global Scene.” International Communication Association (ICA),

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Montreal, 1997.

Fellowships

Media Studies Center, Freedom Forum, New York, 1998.

Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Cultures, Rutgers University, 1998-9.

Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-4.

Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1992.