Anna Cristina Pertierra - Media Cultures in Latin America

Media Cultures in Latin America updates and expands contemporary global understandings of the regions media and cultural research. Drawing on forty years of contributions made by Latin American cultural studies to global media research, the book connects this history to newly developing work that has yet to be given deep consideration in anglophone scholarship.

The authors emphasize themes that are key to media and cultural scholarshipdistinct from other world regions, these intellectual debates have been central to how media and communication is studied and produced in Latin America. This approach provides students and scholars with a better framework for engaging with Latin American research beyond the specificities of just one place or one kind of cultural product or technology.

The book is an essential read for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, and Latin American studies. It will also be of interest to students and scholars learning about human rights, environmental, Indigenous, and political activism.

Anna Cristina Pertierra is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, where she is also a member of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS). An anthropologist by training, her research has focussed on media and consumer cultures, popular culture, and urban modernities in Asia and the Americas. Regionally, her work spans Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines. Anna is the author of Media Anthropology in the Digital Age (Polity 2017), Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (with Graeme Turner, Routledge 2013), and Cuba: The Struggle for Consumption (Caribbean Studies Press, 2011). With John Sinclair, she edited the volume Consumer Culture in Latin America (Palgrave, 2012). Currently, she is the chief investigator of a new research project funded by the Australian Research Council examining emerging consumer cultures among the former urban poor in four countries: Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, and China.

Juan Francisco Salazar is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, where he is currently Research Director of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS). Juan is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker best known for his substantive body of work and contribution to studies of Indigenous media practices in Chile and Latin America. His work on Indigenous media in Latin America was pioneering for focusing on the poetics of media practice and bringing together Latin American scholarship on film and communication studies with media anthropology in the United States. In recent years, his academic and creative work have focused on the coupled dynamics of social-environmental change, with a focus on Antarctica, where he has developed pioneering ethnographic work since 2011. He is currently developing work on anthropological approaches to futures and socialities in polar and outer-Earth environments. In 2015 he completed the feature-length speculative documentary Nightfall on Gaia shot entirely in Antarctica. His latest film is The Bamboo Bridge (2019), a collaboration with geographer Katherine Gibson. He is a co-author of the book Screen Media Arts: Introduction to Concepts and Practices (with Hart Cohen and Iqbal Barkat, Oxford University Press, 2008), which was awarded the Australian Educational Publishing Award 2009 for best book (Teaching and Learning Category), and is co-editor (with Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving, and Johannes Sjberg) of Anthropology and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power

Edited by Micol Seigel

Ethnic Media in the Digital Age

Edited by Sherry S. Yu and Matthew D. Matsaganis

Narratives of Place in Literature and Film

Edited by Steven Allen and Kirsten Mllegaard

Unplugging Popular Culture

Reconsidering Materiality, Analog Technology, and the Digital Native

K. Shannon Howard

Advertising in MENA Goes Digital

Ilhem Allagui

Gambling in Everyday Life

Spaces, Moments and Products of Enjoyment

Fiona Nicoll

Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media

Aspasia Stephanou

Millennials and Media Ecology

Culture, Pedagogy and Politics

Edited by Anthony Cristiano and Ahmet Atay

Media Cultures in Latin America

Key Concepts and New Debates

Edited by Anna Cristina Pertierra and Juan Francisco Salazar

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Rosa Mara Alfaro Moreno is Professor in the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Universidad de Lima, Peru.

Amalia Crdova is a Latinx digital curator at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and member of Faculty at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, United States.

Diana Coryat is a Research Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Audiovisual Arts at the Universidad de las Amricas, Quito, Ecuador. She has worked with community media organizations in the United States and Latin America since 1991.

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.