RT journal article
T1 Exploring the mediascape from the Epistemologies of the South
T2 Explorando el mediascape desde las Epistemologías del Sur
A1 Carvalho, Alexandre de Sousa
A1 Santos, Sofía José
A1 Houart, Carlota
K1 Media
K1 voice
K1 epistemologies of the south
K1 communication grammars
K1 ecologies of communication
K1 voz
K1 epistemologías del sur
K1 gramáticas de comunicación
K1 ecologías de comunicación
AB Dominant literature on media and communication studieshas insistently equated mediascape and high technologymedia as interchangeable concepts and realities insteadof high technological media as part of a broader and moredynamic media pallet. By subscribing to this “technology-driven Darwinism”, we argue that existing dominantliterature explicitly and implicitly excludes forms of masscommunication that go beyond the media in its Westernliberal form and procedures and, consequently, other voices,knowledge and messages. This article analyses the modernconception of media by exploring the “abyssal exclusions”(Santos, 2007) it creates. To illustrate this further, we haveselected the top five 2018 SCOPUS-indexed journals, fromwhich we gathered a sample of 116 research articles that werepublished between 2016-2018, to shed light on some of themost recent research trends in media studies. The definition ofmedia used by the articles contained in our sample shows thatthere is a technological and modernity-driven spectrum whichis fundamental in defining what is and what progressivelyis no longer labelled, and hence considered, media. Thisunderstanding of the media fails to include forms of masscommunication that go beyond the media in its western liberalform and, consequently, exclude subaltern voices, knowledgesand messages.
PB Universidad de Cádiz
SN 2255-3401
YR 2020
FD 2020-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24178
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24178
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 12-nov-2026