Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela

by Naomi Schiller

Book Overview

Venezuela's most prominent community television station, Catia TVe, was launched in 2000 by activists from the barrios of Caracas. Run on the principle that state resources should serve as a weapon of the poor to advance revolutionary social change, the station covered everything from Hugo Chávez's speeches to barrio residents' complaints about bureaucratic mismanagement. In Channeling the State , Naomi Schiller explores how and why Catia TVe's founders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001445
• ISBN13: 9781478001447
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"