Media discourses on the World Social Forums: Towards comparative analyses
The reflections to be presented in this and a parallel article by Maia and Castro are based on ongoing studies of Brazilian, Swedish and Russian and Chinese media materials dealing with the World Social Forums (WSF) in 2001-2004. The overriding question in this paper concerns the ways mainstream med...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal da Bahia
2004-12-01
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| Series: | Contemporanea : Revista de Comunicação e Cultura |
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| Online Access: | http://www.portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/contemporaneaposcom/article/view/3417/2487 |
| Summary: | The reflections to be presented in this and a parallel article by Maia and Castro are based on ongoing studies of Brazilian, Swedish and Russian and Chinese media materials dealing with the World Social Forums (WSF) in 2001-2004. The overriding question in this paper concerns the ways mainstream media of very different societieshave re-constructed the global and local issues addressed by the Forums. Of the four market-oriented economies, Communist China and Post-Socialist Russia stand out as being almost silent about the WSF, favouring economic globalization - seemingly at odds with cultural globalization. In Brazil and Sweden the dominant media harbourcontradictory discourses reflecting different political positions visavi the WSF. |
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| ISSN: | 1806-0269 1809-9386 |