Media Capture in Africa and Latin America

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is Associate Editor of Journalism Studies and African Journalism Studies and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. Bethia Pearson is a Research Associate in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research includes media and human rights, which has been published in journals including Journalism Studies.

• 1. Media Capture, Power and Resistance in Transitional Democracies: Beyond ‘Broad Brushstrokes’.- Part I. Conceptual and Empirical Reflections.- 2. Empirical Reflections on Cognitive News Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Towards a Sociological (Re)Imagination.- 3. Political Transition and the Evolution of Media Capture in Ethiopia: Revisiting the Viability of the Polarised Pluralist Model.- Part II. Power, Politics & Plutocracy.- 4. Media Capture as an Instrument of Power Culture in Brazil.- 5. The “New Guardians” and Nuances of Media Capture in Ghana: Persistence or Rupture of Elite Power?.- 6. The Nigerian Press and its Plutocratic Relationship.- Part III. Beyond Traditional Forms & Practices of Capture.- 7. Media Capture in Morocco: Between Politics, Economics and Platformisation.- 8. Media Capture Trends in Increasingly Digitalised Communication Ecologies: The Case of Environmental and LGBTI+ Activist Groups in Chile.- 9. Alternative Media Under Conditions of Media Capture in Mexico: Is Resistance Enough for Responsive Journalism?.- Part IV. Resistance, Policy & Regulatory Regimes.- 10. Resistance to Media Capture in Ghana: Examining the Role of Social Accountability Actors.- 11. Resisting Media Capture: Mobilising for Media freedom in Uganda.- 12. New and Old Captured Policies, Resistances and Diversity in Media and Internet in Argentina.- 13. Siege and Resistance: Media, journalism, and Democracy in Colombia.