Dr. Henry Geddes

Communication and Latin American studies; cultural criticism and policy; global communication and international relations; political economy of the media and of Latin American societies.

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas Austin, 1989
B.A., Oberlin College, 1978

Background

Author or co-author of "The Politics of Restructuring Difference in the Americas: A Critique of (Neo) Colonial Iconography"; "Narrative, Popular Memory and Cultural Industry: The Evolution of the Peruvian Telenovela and its Implications for Latin America"; "U.S. Network Television News Coverage of Mexico, 1972-1982: Agenda for Social Development and International Relations"; "Articulating Narrative Strategies: The Peruvian Telenovela"; Politicas de Televisión en los Paises Andinos; Tecnologia, Comunicación y Desarrollo. Current research includes: theories of the world system and implications for political, economic and cultural practices; globalization of cultural industries; North American Free Trade Agreement and information policy; media, culture and ethnicity in the Americas; cultural studies as a discipline from the margins of the world system; mass media and the tourism industry in the rapid transformation of Mayan communities in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Read more about Dr. Henry Geddes...

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