Ciespal: una huella indeleble en la conformación de las teorías latinoamericanas de comunicación

Abstract

This article reviews the emergence and consolidation of communication theories in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and its relationship with the influence of the International Center for Higher Studies in Communication for Latin America (Ciespal). It is a part of a larger research, which reviews 179 documents, to recognize regional thinking and presents its first results. It focuses on the period of the late sixties and nineties, although it covers until the beginning of the 21st century. Review the beginnings and development of the Latin American school, in four approaches (historical (Esteinou), geographic (Pineda), schools (Mattelart & Mattelart, Alcázar & Álvarez, Kaplún) and field's definition (Martín Barbero, León) with the assumption of the "institutionalization of Latin American theory" (Marques de Melo, Orozco, León, Moyano) and the hypothesis that its original core occurs with the creation of Ciespal. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]