Manuel Castells analiza las transformaciones que se han producido en la industria global de los medios de comunicación y, basándose en una diversidad de enfoques sociales y psicológicos, ofrece una investigación original de procesos políticos y movimientos sociales -los acontecimientos que siguieron al atentado del 11 de marzo en Madrid, la desinformación del público estadounidense sobre la guerra de Irak, el movimiento ecologista global contra el cambio climático, el control de la información en Rusia y China y el papel de Internet en las campañas electorales, como la de Obama- que ilustran la relación entre comunicación y el poder del siglo XXI.

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A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society’s search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.

Mott KTA Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award, Kappa Tau Alpha Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Knudson Latin America Prize, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Today the country is one of the most dangerous in the world in which to be a reporter. In Surviving Mexico, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine the networks of political power, business interests, and organized crime that threaten and attack Mexican journalists, who forge ahead despite the risks. Amid the crackdown on drug cartels, overall violence in Mexico has increased, and journalists covering the conflict have grown more vulnerable. But it is not just criminal groups that want reporters out of the way. Government forces also attack journalists in order to shield corrupt authorities and the very criminals they are supposed to be fighting. Meanwhile some news organizations, enriched by their ties to corrupt government officials and criminal groups, fail to support their employees. In some cases, journalists must wait for a “green light” to publish not from their editors but from organized crime groups. Despite seemingly insurmountable constraints, journalists have turned to one another and to their communities to resist pressures and create their own networks of resilience. Drawing on a decade of rigorous research in Mexico, González de Bustamante and Relly explain how journalists have become their own activists and how they hold those in power accountable.

From its emergence as a modest newspaper to becoming the largest communication group in Argentina, and one of the main communications groups in Latin America, this book examines the media conglomerate Grupo Clarín. Guillermo Mastrini, Martín Becerra and Ana Bizberge analyze the group’s corporate structure and the aspects that have contributed to its expansion throughout its history, mapping its stages of growth to the regulatory policies, cultural politics, economics and political history of Argentina over the last few decades. This book offers a compelling analysis of one of the key players in the Latin American communication and information market, highlighting how the conglomerate has continued to grow under various different governments - by achieving legal reforms and influencing policies - and continues to have great capacity to influence the policy and regulation of the system, the market structure and cultural consumption in the region. This book is ideal for students, scholars and researchers of global media, political economy, and media and communication, especially those with an interest in Latin America.

El periodismo de marcas es para unos pocos. Da lo mismo si se trata de enormes marcas multinacionales o de pequeñas denominaciones muy especializadas o muy locales. Es para una selectísima minoría y, además, es periodismo puro y duro.Hoy, con el descrédito de la publicidad, la desintermediación de la información, el desengaño tecnológico y la pérdida de la ingenuidad de las audiencias, se ha creado el escenario perfecto para desarrollar un periodismo que pretende una influenci todopoderosa.Este tratado actualiza los modos de este periodismo, abordando su sustrato teórico. Discrimina el contenido de marca de la acción periodística. Desmiente la antitética conceptual de periodismo y marca en una misma expresión. Y desvela, desde la experiencia, cómo fundar la redacción de marca, diseñar la línea editorial y ejercerlo cotidianamente.La marca que lo use se cotizará más. Y la corporación que evolucione con él logrará unos resultados económicos aún mejores.

Drawing on a wide range of social and psychological theories, Castells presents original research on political processes and social movements. He applies this analysis to numerous recent events - the misinformation of the American public on the Iraq War,the global environmental movement to preventclimate change, the control of information in China and Russia, Barak Obama's internet-based presidential campaigns, and (in this new edition) responses to recent political and economic crises such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a newtheory of power in the information age based on the management of communication networks.