Media and Democracy in Latin America. Preliminary notes

Abstract

This article, exploratory, aims to present the first results of the audiovisual research Media and democracy in Latin America.

This research, which will have as a feature length film and a TV series, intends to draw a map of the media in Latin America, in each country, presenting what the structure of the communications sector, how acts to mainstream media, which recent changes in legislation and the spaces occupied by the community and alternative media. The article presents some of these points for ten countries - Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Chile - and makes a brief comparative analysis.

From the perception that the phenomenon of concentration of information affects all of these countries, the purpose of the work as a whole is to contribute to the debate about the democratization of media in the region, checking what is in common and what are the particularities of each case.