Tiempos de revolución: Protagonismo y polarización mediáticas en Venezuela
Abstract
El presente texto repasa algunas tendencias y hechos venezolanos de los últimos años, teniendo como contexto general una etapa de transformaciones político-institucionales significativas en el país, y un gobierno, el de Hugo Chávez, que le presta una notable importancia a su dimensión mediática, llegando a producir lo que ya autores como Marcelino Bisbal (2006) denominaron el Estado-comunicador. Los medios, con una evidente intervención política, han sido un actor protagónico de la escena pública en la Venezuela gobernada por Hugo Chávez, quien asumió el poder en febrero de 1999, y sobre cuyo proyecto político, "la revolución bolivariana", la sociedad venezolana ha estado bastante dividida.
This article reviews some Venezuelan tendencies and events from the past few years, within a general context of a stage of significant political and institutional transformations in the country, and a government, that of Hugo Chávez, who gives a notable importance to its media dimension, therefore producing what authors such as Marcelino Bisbal (2006) have called the communicator-State. The media, with an evident political intervention, have played a key role in the public scene in the Venezuela governed by Hugo Chávez who took office in February 1999, and on whose political project, "The Bolivarian Revolution", the Venezuelan society has been quite divided.
This article reviews some Venezuelan tendencies and events from the past few years, within a general context of a stage of significant political and institutional transformations in the country, and a government, that of Hugo Chávez, who gives a notable importance to its media dimension, therefore producing what authors such as Marcelino Bisbal (2006) have called the communicator-State. The media, with an evident political intervention, have played a key role in the public scene in the Venezuela governed by Hugo Chávez who took office in February 1999, and on whose political project, "The Bolivarian Revolution", the Venezuelan society has been quite divided.
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Vol. 14, No. 19