Ariel Dorfman

Armand Mattelart

Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

How to Read Donald Duck

"First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney--curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash--Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney recognized the challenge, and when the book was translated and imported into the U.S. in 1975, managed to have all 4,000 copies impounded. Ultimately, 1,500 copies of the book were allowed into the country, the rest of the shipment was blocked, and until now no American publisher has dared re-release the book, which sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into seventeen languages. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman" --

Se a noção de comunicação é problemática, muito mais o é de teoria da comunicação. O estatuto e a definição da teoria, a exemplo do que se passa com várias ciências humanas e sociais, são muito diferentes, segundo as diversas escolas e epistemologias. Mesmo uma escola pode abrigar diversas variantes. Diante disso, onde situar um pensamento organizado sobre a comunicação, se esse campo de conhecimento pode abrigar teorias e doutrinas tão diversas quanto as de McLuhan e de J. Habermas? Os autores respondem a essa questão por recurso ao caráter interdisciplinar das ciências da informação e da comunicação. Eles mapeiam as correntes, tendências e escolas, mostrando os fluxos e refluxos das diversas problemáticas. E o fazem num texto sintético, esclarecedor, acessível aos estudantes, fecundo para os professores de comunicação e para os profissionais da área. A noção de comunicação recobre uma multiplicidade de sentidos. A proliferação das tecnologias e a profissionalização das práticas acrescentou novas vozes a essa polifonia, num fim de século que faz da comunicação uma figura emblemática das sociedade do IIIo. Milênio. Situados na encruzilhada de várias disciplinas, os processos de comunicação suscitaram o interesse de ciências tão diversas quanto a Filosofia, a História, a Geografia, a Psicologia, a Sociologia, a Etnologia, a Economia, as Ciências Políticas, a Biologia, a Cibernética ou as Ciências Cognitivas. História das teorias da comunicação procura dar conta da pluralidade e dispersão desse campo de observação científica, historicamente em tensão entre as redes físicas e imateriais, o biológico e o social, a natureza e a cultura, os dispositivos técnicos e o discurso, a economia e a cultura, as perspectivas micro e macro, a aldeia e o globo, o ator e o sistema, o indivíduo e a sociedade, o livre-arbítrio e os determinismos sociais. Se a noção de comunicação é problemática, muito o mais o é a de teoria da comunicação. O estatuto e a definição da teoria, a exemplo do que se passa com várias ciências humanas e sociais, são muito diferentes, segundo as diversas escolas e epistemologias. Mesmo uma escola pode abrigar diversas variantes. Diante disso, onde situar um pensamento organizado sobre a comunicação, se esse campo de conhecimento pode abrigar teorias e doutrinas tão diversas quanto as de McLuhan e de J. Habermas? Os autores respondem a essa questão por recurso ao caráter interdisciplinar das ciências da informação e da comunicação. Eles mapeiam as correntes, tendências e escolas, mostrando os fluxos e refluxos das diversas problemáticas. E o fazem num texto sintético, esclarecedor, acessível aos estudantes, fecundo para os professores de comunicação e para os profissionais da área.

História das teorias da comunicação

Historia de la sociedad de la información

Halime Yücel

İletişimin dünyasallaşması

In the age of satellites and the Internet, worldwide communication has become increasingly unified amid overblown claims about the redemptive possibilities of international networks. But this rhetoric is hardly new. As Armand Mattelart demonstrates in Networking the World, 1794-2000, globalization and its attendant hype have existed since road and rail were the fastest way to move information. Mattelart plates contemporary global communication networks into historical context and shows that the networking of the world began much earlier than many assume, in the late eighteenth century. He argues that the internationalization of communication was spawned by such Enlightenment ideals as universalism and liberalism, and exmines how the development of global communications has been inextricably linked to the industrial revolution, modern warfare, and the emergence of nationalism. Throughout, Mattelart eloquently argues that discourses of better living through globalization often mask projects of political, economic, and cultural domination.

Networking the World, 1794-2000

Yves Stourdzé

A Report to the French Minister of Research and Industry

Technology, Culture, and Communication

Héctor Schmucler

Freedom of Choice for Latin America?

Communication and Information Technologies

The task of this book is to reconstruct the genealogy of the sphere of world communication. We will follow a multidimensional approach, analyzing the ways in which technologies and networks have taken root since the nineteenth century and have ceaselessly pushed back to light the concepts, doctrines, theories, and controversies that have marked the construction of the scientific field known as international communications.

War, Progress, Culture

Mapping World Communication

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Privatisation of Public Space

Advertising International

Michèle Mattelart

Jacques Leenhardt

Pierre Kalfon

Les Amériques latines en France

The impact of the information society' are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or challenged by the new technologies of information and communication. In this short introduction, Armand Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change in the 21st Century. Critically, he also asks why the notion has come to dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced. Combining a long-term historical and geopolitical perspective, Mattelart questions the axioms used to legitimate the Information Society and critically assesses the ways in which it has been conceptualised as a theoretical concept as well as policy making tool. This introduction will be of interest to all students of media and communication, as well as social scientists in general.

An Introduction

The Information Society

Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The ?war against terror? has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984. How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted that their rights and freedoms should be taken away, a little at a time, by increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance? From the anthropometry of the 19th Century to the Patriot Act, through an analysis of military theory and the Echelon Project, Armand Mattelart constructs a genealogy of this new power of control and examines its globalising dynamic. This book provides an essential wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of surveillance.

The Globalization of Surveillance

A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular novel; and the origins of American social science. The history runs from the circuits of exchange to the circulation of goods, people and messages, from the construction of railroads to the emergence of long-distance communication. The author brings a clarifying perspective to the ideologies and theories that accompany these transformations.

The Invention of Communication

Professor Armand Mattelart

In creating and developing the new genre of the televised novela, a one-hour long dramatic serial, the Brazilian television industry grew, in less than 15 years, from an insignificant player in the international market to one of the largest, most influential in the world. The authors challenge accepted views of the world dominance of United States television and probe the socioeconomic impact of this new genre on a third world country. Using the telenovela and its impact on the medium world-wide, the authors document the important changes in the international circulation of television programs and in the way television is perceived theoretically as a subject of research.

Armand Mattelart

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