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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
February 2 2015
EMPLOYMENT
2011-present
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. School of Media and
Public Affairs, George Washington University.
2009-2011
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. 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. Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective, Polity,
2012.
2. Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability and Democracy.
Columbia University Press, 2000.
Spanish
3. Vox Populista: Medios, Periodismo, Populismo. Buenos Aires: GEDISA, 2013.
4. Duelo [Duel/Mourning]. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2009.
5. El Gran Desfile: Campañas Electorales y Medios de Comunicación en la Argentina.
Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1995.
Edited
English
1. Media Sociology: A Reappraisal, Polity, 2014.
2. (with R. Obregon) Handbook of Global Health Communication, Wiley, 2012.
3. (with E. Fox) Local Politics, Global Media: Latin American Broadcasting and
Policy. University of Texas Press, 2002.
4. (with N. Morris) Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters. Rowman &
Littlefield, 2001.
Spanish
5. (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.
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Communication studies without frontiers? Translation and cosmopolitanism across
academic cultures, International Journal of Communication, forthcoming.
2. Three challenges for communication and global social change, Communication
Theory, forthcoming.
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3. (with T. Flew) The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of
media globalization, Media, Culture & Society, forthcoming.
4. Remaking “area studies” in journalism studies, African Journalism Studies,
forthcoming.
5. (with C. Mellado), De-westernizing communication studies: A reassessment,
Communication Theory 24 (4): 361-372, 2014.
6. Where do we go next? Behavioral and social change for child survival Journal of
Health Communication, 19:216-222, 2014.
7. A metatheory of mediatization and globalization? Journal of Multicultural
Discourses, 2013.
8. (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.
9. Media policies and the blindspots of media globalization: Insights from Latin
America, Media, Culture & Society 35 (1): 132-138, 2013.
10. Democracy, journalism, and Latin American populism, Journalism 14 (4):504-521,
2013.
11. (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.
12. Between support and confrontation: Civic society, media reform, and populism in
Latin America, Communication, Culture and Critique 4: 97-117, March 2011.
13. Can NGOs change the news? International Journal of Communication, 5: 142–165,
2011.
14. 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.
15. The pragmatic politics of media reform: Media movements and coalition-building in
Latin America, Global Media and Communication, 6 (2):133-153, 2010.
16. (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.
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17. (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.
18. Participatory communication for tuberculosis control in prisons in Bolivia, Ecuador,
and Paraguay, Pan American Journal of Public Health, 27 (3): 168-174, 2010.
19. (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.
20. Research directions for global journalism studies: Ideas from Latin America,
Journalism, 10 (3), 2009.
21. The institutional challenges of participatory communication in international aid,
Social Identities, 14 (4): 505-522, 2008.
22. (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.
23. Beyond the medical-informational model: Recasting the role of communication in
tuberculosis control, Social Science & Medicine 65(10): 2130-2134, 2007.
24. Missed opportunities: Communication in the Polio Eradication Initiative,
Communication for Development and Social Change, 1 (2): 145-165, 2007.
25. Democratic journalism and “statelessness,” Political Communication, 24:115-129,
2007.
26. When training is insufficient: Reflections on capacity development in health
promotion in Peru, Health Promotion International, 21(3):230-237, 2006.
27. 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.
28. Scandals, media, and citizenship in contemporary Argentina, American Behavioral
Scientist, 47: 1072-1098, 2004.
29. (with H. Tumber) Introduction: Political scandals and media across democracies,
American Behavioral Scientist, 47: 1031 – 1039, 1143 – 1152, 2004.
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30. 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.
31. Antipress violence and the crisis of the state, Harvard International Journal
Press/Politics, 7 (3): 90-109, 2002.
32. The challenges of investigative journalism, University of Miami Law Journal, 56 (1):
377-395, 2002.
33. Introduction: Journalism and new technologies, Journalism (2) 2:171-173, August
2001.
34. 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.
35. When the cart of media is before the horse of identity: A critique of technologycentered views on globalization, Communication Research 25 (4): 377-398, 1998.
36. What’s the online news? Digital dailies in Latin America, Electronic Journal of
Communication, 7 (2), 1997.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies,
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 13: 343-363, 1996.
40. Leviathan dreams: State and broadcasting in Latin America, The Communication
Review 1 (2): 201-226, 1995.
41. Farewell to public spaces? Electoral campaigns and street spectacle in Argentina,
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 15: 279-300, 1995.
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42. Knocking on newsroom doors: Press and political scandals in Argentina, Political
Communication 11: 19-33, Spring 1994.
43. Television and election campaigns in contemporary Argentina, Journal of
Communication 44 (2): 125-135, Spring 1994.
44. 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.
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, forthcoming.
2.
Media sociology, in Klaus Bruhn Jensen, International Encyclopedia of
Communication Theory and Philosophy, Wiley, forthcoming.
3.
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.
4.
La “mediatización” de la violencia y la seguridad ciudadana, in Roberto Samar, Ed.,
Inseguridades. Neuquén: Universidad Nacional del Comahue.
5.
(with A. Amado) Divided we stand: Blurred boundaries in Argentine journalism, in
M. Carlson and S. Lewis, Editors, Boundaries of Journalism, Routledge,
forthcoming.
6. The shifting boundaries of jazz and/in popular culture, in Toby Miller, Editor,
Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture, Routledge, 2015.
7. 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.
8. Media advocacy, in Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Editor, International Encyclopedia of
Political Communication, Wiley, 2014.
9. Watchdog journalism, in Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Editor, International Encyclopedia of
Political Communication, Wiley, 2014.
10. (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.
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11. Introduction to Carlos Salinas Maldonado’s “A decimated Chichigalpa buries its
dead,” in Anya Schiffrin, Editor, Global Muckraking, 266, New Press, 2014.
12. De-Westernization and Cosmopolitan Media Studies, in Chin-Chuan Chan, Editor,
Internationalizing “International Communication,” 178-200, University of Michigan
Press, 2014.
13. Citizen journalism, development and social change: Hype and hope, in Stuart Allan
and Einar Thorsen, Editors, Citizen Journalism, 185-198. Peter Lang, 2014.
14. 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.
15. (with F. Paulino) The development of Brazilian news and journalism, Lue Book of
Global Media, 2013.
16. Contesting extractivism: Media and environmental citizenship in Latin America, in
Brett Hutchins and Libby Lester, Editors, Environmental Conflict and the Media,
Peter Lang, 2013.
17. Globalization, In Patricia Moy ed., Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2012.
18. Political communication in Latin America, In Holli Semetko and Margaret Scamell
eds., Handbook of Political Communication. Routledge, 2012.
19. 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.
20. Prologue, In Ricardo Thornton and Gustavo Cimadevilla Editors, Usos y abusos del
participare [Uses and abuses of participare], 17-21. Buenos Aires: INTA, 2010.
21. Press and the public sphere in contemporary Latin America. In Pippa Norris eds.,
Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform. Washington: World Bank,
2010.
22. (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.
23. 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.
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24. News coverage of risk. In Christopher Sterling editor, Encyclopedia of Journalism.
Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2009.
25. 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.
26. (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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Modernization. In Wolfgang Donsbach editor, International Encyclopedia of
Communication, 3151-3156, 2007.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. (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.
33. 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.
34. (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.
35. (with J. Deane) The other information revolution: Media and empowerment in
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developing countries. In Bruce Girard and Sean O Siochrú editors, Communicating in
the Information Society, 65-100. Geneva: UNRISD, 2004.
36. 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,
37. 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.
38. State of the media in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Encyclopedia of
International Media and Communications, 2002.
39. 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.
40. State, development, and communication. In William Gudykunst and Bella Mody eds.,
Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication 437-455. Sage, 2001.
41. (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.
42. 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.
43. 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.
44. Latin America. In Anthony Smith editor, Television: An International History, 254263. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
45. 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.
46. Secular politics: The modernization of Argentine electioneering. In Paolo Mancini
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and David L. Swanson editors, Politics, Media and Modern Democracy, 207-225.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
47. 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 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.
2. ¿Qué post-liberalismo? Liberalismo, populismo y comunicación pública,
Observatorio Latinoamericano 14, Universidad de Buenos Aires, October 2014.
3. 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
4. Qué sabemos sobre el impacto de los medios en el crimen? Boletín de Seguridad
Ciudadana, Universidad de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), October 2013.
5. Breaking up is hard to do, Americas Quarterly, Fall 2013: 3-7.
6. (with N. Morris) Nuevas direcciones para la investigación en comunicación
participativa, Revista Mexicana de Comunicación, April-June 2013.
7. Cambios y continuidades: La agenda de investigación de la comunicación política en
América Latina, Austral Comunicación (Argentina), 2013.
8. Out with the old? Media systems and political communication in Latin America,
Political Communication Newsletter,
http://www.politicalcommunication.org/newsletter_22_2_feature.html
9. Media 1.5, Americas Quarterly, 6 (1), Winter 2012, 44-48.
10. Repensar la agenda de investigación en la academia globalizada, Telos (Spain) 90
January-March, 2012.
11. Medios, fondos públicos, y calidad democrática en América Latina [Media, public
funds, and the quality of democracy], Organization of American States, 2011.
12. 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/publicmedia/international-models, February 2011.
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13. 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-bolivianmedia-underlying-issues.php
14. An All-Out Media War: It’s Clarin vs. the Kirchners, and journalism is the loser,
Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2010.
15. Profesionalización en debate [The debate over professionalization], Anuario FOPEA
(Argentina), 22-23, 2010.
16. (with J. Deane) How to use communication to make aid effective: Strategies and
principles for Programme-based Approaches, BBC World Service Trust, 2010.
17. Where is communication in the Millennium Development Goals? Media
Development 3/2006, 3-7. Reprinted in Spanish in Comunicación (Venezuela), 137,
10-15.
18. The irony of communication for social change, MAZI, August 2007,
www.communicationforsocialchange.org
19. Communicating communication, Media Development 2005/2. Originally published in
The Communication Initiative, February 7, 2005,
http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_285.html
20. (with H. Larson) Why Invest in Communication for Immunization? Evidence and
Lessons Learned. Baltimore: Heath Communication Partnership, Johns Hopkins
University, 2005.
21. (with G. Coe) Comunicación, periodismo, salud y desafíos para el nuevo milenio,
Razón y Palabra (Mexico), 2004 www.razonypalabra.org.mx
22. Grandes gigantes: Media concentration in Latin America, OpenDemocracy,
www.opendemocracy.org, February 27, 2002.
23. Family tree of theories, methodologies, and strategies in development
communication: Convergences and differences, 2001 The Communication Initiative,
www.comminit.org. 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.
24. 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.
25. Hasta la vista public broadcasting, Open Democracy, www.opendemocracy.org
August 9, 2001.
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26. El buen periodismo: Las contradicciones irresueltas del periodismo de investigación
[The good journalism: The unsolved contradictions of investigative journalism],
Contribuciones 2 (2001):105-116.
27. 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
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. Repensar la prensa en las democracias latinoamericanas [Rethinking the press in
Latin American democracies], Problèmes d'Amérique Latine.
31. 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
32. Latin American press follows Clinton scandal with fascination, incomprehension.
Free, The Freedom Forum Online
www.freedomforum.org/international/1998/10/7telenovelas. asp
33. What’s in a name? The many lives of alternative media. Media Development 45 (3):
45-48, 1998.
34. 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.
35. 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.
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36. 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.
37. 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.
38. A Sign of the Times: Television and Electoral Politics in Argentina, 1983-1989.
Kellogg Working Papers #190, University of Notre Dame.
39. Medios de Comunicación y Campañas Electorales [Mass Media and Election
Campaigns] Doxa, Spring-Summer: 33-47, 1991/1992. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
40. (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.
Articles in newspapers, websites and other publications
1.
Balancing Charlie Hebdo, freedom of the press and social responsibility, The
Hatchet (GWU), January 22, 2015.
2.
Who speaks for public media in Latin America? World Bank, November 2014
https://blogs.worldbank.org/latinamerica/who-speaks-public-media-latinamerica?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT
3.
Estados Unidos: La instintiva ilusión de la diversidad mediática, November 2014,
Observacom.org, http://observacom.org/estados-unidos-la-instintiva-ilusion-dela-diversidad-mediatica/
4.
La lógica “amigo/enemigo”, marca nacional, Clarin (Argentina), October 14,
2014.
5.
De la concepción individual a la acción social, El Mercurio (Chile), May 11,
2014.
6.
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-andhis-ilk-are-redefining-democracy-mdash-big-brother-style
7.
The developing story of a plane puzzle, The Hatchet (GWU), March 19, 2014
8.
El tiempo de Francisco, Página/12 (Argentina), December 18, 2013
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/laventana/26-235908-2013-12-18.html
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9.
Contradicciones de una contienda retórica con objetivos políticos, La Nación
(Argentina), November 3, 2013.
10.
Ironías comunicacionales del populismo, Clarín, August 14, 2013.
11.
Obama y Romney, el factor debate, La Nación (Argentina), October 26, 2012.
12.
Ética periodística, un debate necesario [Journalistic ethics, a necessary debate), La
Nación (Argentina), August 11, 2012.
13.
El valor de las conferencias de prensa [The value of press conferences], La
Nación (Argentina), April 5, 2012
14.
Morbo con apoyo oficial [Morbidity with oficial support], La Nación (Argentina),
February 16, 2012.
15.
La diversidad de los medios, los medios en diversidad [Media diversity, the media
in diversity], Página/12 (Argentina), January 25, 2012.
16.
El poder de los medios [Media power], La Nación (Argentina), September 31,
2011.
17.
El error del periodismo militante [The mistake of partisan journalism], La Nación
(Argentina), January 12, 2011.
18.
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.
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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.
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.
Talks, Abstracts, and Other Professional Papers Presented
Invited talks
Keynote presentations
International journalism studies, School of International and Intercultural
Communication, University of Dortmund, November 2014.
Conference, The Unlovable Press. Conversations with Michael Schudson, University of
Groningen, June 16-17, 2014.
Conference, Media and governance in Latin America, University of Sheffield, May 2014.
IV Conference ICA América Latina, organized by ALAIC and ICA, Brasilia, March
2014.
Conference, Horizontes de investigación en los Estudios sobre Periodismo, Universidad
Iberoamericana, México City, February 28, 2014.
Conference Beyond the Impasse: Exploring New Thinking in Communication for Social
Change, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, January 2013.
Conference Comunicación para la Paz, Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá (Colombia),
August 2012.
First International Congress of Journalism Studies, Santiago, Chile, June 2012.
Global studies and political journalism, Congress on Political Journalism, Valladolid,
Spain, May 2011.
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Annual National Congress of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Journalism, São
Paulo, Brazil, November 2008.
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
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
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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
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.
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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
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.
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Washington, D.C., April 8, 1998.
Democratizing Global Communications, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November
1997.
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.
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(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.
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, 2015-2019.
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)
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Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia, (Brasil, 2013-present)
Journalism (1998-present)
Palgrave, Communication for Social Change Book Series (2012-present)
Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (2009-present)
Worlds of Journalism Study’s Scientific Advisory Committee (2011-2012).
Manuscript Reviewer
Journals
Acta Poética (Mexico), 2006
African Journal of Microbiology
Research, 2010
American Behavioral Scientist, 2009
American Political Science Review,
2012
Brazilian Journalism Review (Brazil),
2005, 2007
Canadian Journal of Communication,
1998
Communication, Critique & Culture,
2011
Communication Theory, 1999, 2014
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
Journal of Communication, 1998
Journal of Development and
Communication Studies, 2014
Journal of Health Communication, 2011,
2013, 2014
Journal of Media Economics, 1998
Journal of Multicultural Discourses,
2014
Journalism, 1998-present
Journalism Studies, 2013
Media, Culture & Society, 2009, 2010,
2013
Mobilization, 2005
Political Communication, 2006, 2008
Salud Colectiva (Argentina), 2012
Scandinavian Political Studies, 2010
Social Science & Medicine, 2006, 2009,
2010
Sociology, 2008
The Communication Review, 1996-1997
The Lancet, 2007
Book manuscripts, prospectus, and entries
Cambridge University Press (2004,
2008, 2012)
Hampton Press (2001)
Oxford University Press (2010)
Palgrave (2014)
Polity Press (2005, 2010, 2012, 2013)
Routledge (2013, 2014)
SAGE (2013)
University of Pittsburgh Press (2010).
Conference papers
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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.
Fellowships, Prizes, and Awards
Research Award, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University, 2000.
Media Studies Center, Freedom Forum, New York, 1998.
Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Cultures, Rutgers University, 1998-9.
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),
Montreal, 1997.
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-4.
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1992.
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