Unfinished Review of Venezuelan Academic Output in Communication, Media, and Politics

Authors

  • Andrés Cañizález Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

Keywords:

Political communication, Venezuela, Media in Venezuela, Press in Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution

Abstract

This text analyzes two main trends in political communication. First, and as theoretical foundation, we review what is commonly referred to as media‑ or communication centrality in politics from the findings of mostly Latin-American authors about the complex relationship between the media and politics, considering the prevailing role played by the mass media in Latin America and Venezuela. A second part of this paper, focused in the production of academic knowledge in Venezuela, reviews books and articles on the phenomenon of political communication within a period established as a time-based frame (2000-2012). This period overlaps the “Bolivarian Revolution” model, or the “process” as it was frequently referred to in its early years, which significantly influenced the Venezuelan academic output in the field of political communication. In these years, Venezuelan publications like considerations, essays, or investigation results in political communication have been aimed at describing the political process that was causing deep transformations in institutions and in political culture per se. This should not be surprising, since “the process” had a clear political practice of highlighting communications in this period.

Author Biography

Andrés Cañizález, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

Andrés Cañizález. Venezuelan, with studies in social communication, political sciences and Venezuelan history. He has a Doctorate in Political Sciences from the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas. For over 10 years he has been part of the permanent academic staff of the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB, for its Spanish initials). He is part of the Center of Communication Research and his line of work has studied the relationship between democracy and the media, and the role of the freedom of the press. He is a professor of graduate and postgraduate courses in UCAB. He was elected president of the Venezuelan Association of Communication Researchers (INVECOM, for its Spanish initials) for the 2013‑2015 period. He is accredited as investigator of the Innovation and Research Stimulus Program (PEII, for its Spanish initials). He coordinates the “Political Communication and Media” working group of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC, for its Spanish initials). 

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Published

2015-09-05

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2014): Crossing Politics and Political Communication in Latin America

Section

Articles