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The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil

Peripheral Media

Helton Levy

The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil: Peripheral Media offers a new understanding of the digital media produced from the favelas, urban occupations, and in the countryside of Brazil, focusing on the discourse of this broad periphery in the late 2010s. After a decade of political stabilization and economic growth, the contemporary periphery has the ability to employ digital media to politicize old demands for social justice and better public services, and to denaturalize inequality overall. The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil presents interviews conducted with producers acting in the cities’ outskirts, in favelas, and in the countryside, showing how a myriad of websites and social media pages can launch specific challenges against hegemonic mass media outlets, the state, and society. A vast body of research reveals producers’ strategies to garner publicity for marginalized neighborhoods and individuals, providing an essential background for scholars of Latin American studies, journalism, and communication.

Lexington Books

Pages: 242 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-8513-2 • Hardback • October 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-8514-9 • eBook • October 2018 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Social Science / World / Latin America

The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil

Peripheral Media

Hardback

eBook

Summary

The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil: Peripheral Media offers a new understanding of the digital media produced from the favelas, urban occupations, and in the countryside of Brazil, focusing on the discourse of this broad periphery in the late 2010s. After a decade of political stabilization and economic growth, the contemporary periphery has the ability to employ digital media to politicize old demands for social justice and better public services, and to denaturalize inequality overall. The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil presents interviews conducted with producers acting in the cities’ outskirts, in favelas, and in the countryside, showing how a myriad of websites and social media pages can launch specific challenges against hegemonic mass media outlets, the state, and society. A vast body of research reveals producers’ strategies to garner publicity for marginalized neighborhoods and individuals, providing an essential background for scholars of Latin American studies, journalism, and communication.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 242 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-8513-2 • Hardback • October 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-8514-9 • eBook • October 2018 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Social Science / World / Latin America

Author

Helton Levy is a journalist and research associate at City, University of London and University College London.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Periphery in the Context of Brazil
Chapter 2. In the City
Chapter 3. In the Favelas
Chapter 4. Challenging the Mainstream Media
Chapter 5. Challenging the State
Conclusion. A New Form of Media Power: Inequality at the Centre
Afterword
Appendix A. Notes on Methods
Appendix B. Sampled Outlets and Description
Bibliography

The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil

Peripheral Media

Helton Levy

The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil

Peripheral Media

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