Media discourses on the World Social Forums:Towards comparative analyses

Authors

  • Jan Ekecrantz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v2i2.3417

Keywords:

World Social Forums, dominant media, cultural globalization

Abstract

The reflections to be presented in this and a parallel article by Maia and Castro are based on ongoing studies of Brazilian, Swedish and Russian and Chinese media materials dealing with the World Social Forums (WSF) in 2001-2004. The overriding question in this paper concerns the ways mainstream media of very different societies have re-constructed the global and local issues addressed by the Forums. Of the four market-oriented economies, Communist China and Post-Socialist Russia stand out as being almost silent about the WSF, favouring economic globalization - seemingly at odds with cultural globalization. In Brazil and Sweden the dominant media harbour contradictory discourses reflecting different political positions visavi the WSF.

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Published

2009-07-08

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