Medios y modernidad en Latinoamérica
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2013
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[es] La modernidad como sistema de civilización y de cultura
supone consensos cognitivos para su manutención. En este
ejercicio se trata de describir cómo los medios de comunicación promovieron la formación de esos consensos y se
volvieron ellos mismos importantes vínculos para la interpretación y la producción de sentido. El tema del estudio está
relacionado con la manera en que parte de Latinoamérica
desarrolló algunos de los principales argumentos de la modernidad y la tendencia a reunir enunciados de proveniencia
diversa en unos pocos soportes discursivos institucionalizados, por lo que se desarrolla aquí una especie de narrativa
de convergencia. De esa manera, a pesar de la creciente
división del trabajo físico e intelectual fomentado por el
avance del capitalismo, en Latinoamérica la legitimación del
formato social moderno y los discursos de conformación de
las identidades regionales se dieron con el advenimiento de
los medios de comunicación, redundando en una alternativa
a los esquemas cognitivos logocéntricos.
[en] Modernity as civilization and culture systems involves cognitive consensus. This study describes how media underpinned the construction of consensus and became a very important nexus between interpretation and meaning production. The main issue of the article is related to the ways which Latin America developed some of the modern arguments and their tendency to gather different propositions into a few discursive models, provoking a sort of convergence narrative. Despite the increasing of specialization in intellectual and physical work, in Latin America the legitimacy of social shape and even the discursive construction of regional identities were deeply conditioned by the spreading of media activities. This idiosyncrasy turned out to be an alternative to the logocentric cognitive schemes.
[en] Modernity as civilization and culture systems involves cognitive consensus. This study describes how media underpinned the construction of consensus and became a very important nexus between interpretation and meaning production. The main issue of the article is related to the ways which Latin America developed some of the modern arguments and their tendency to gather different propositions into a few discursive models, provoking a sort of convergence narrative. Despite the increasing of specialization in intellectual and physical work, in Latin America the legitimacy of social shape and even the discursive construction of regional identities were deeply conditioned by the spreading of media activities. This idiosyncrasy turned out to be an alternative to the logocentric cognitive schemes.
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Medios de comunicación, América Latina, Modernidad, Cultura, Media, Latin America, Modernity, Culture