Mass Communication Research in Latin America: Views from Here and There

Abstract

Somewhat different pictures of communication research in Latin America emerge from parallel surveys of journals and scholars in that region, and of interested U.S. researchers. Latin Americans cite Europeans and influence one another more than U.S. scholars realize. By far the most cited author in the period 1960–84 was Armand Mattelart, a European critical theorist who lived in Chile until 1973; his influence is underestimated by the U.S. scholars surveyed. The study is based on analysis of eight Latin American journals and interviews with more than 100 scholars in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and the United States.