Globalization and History in Brazil: Communication, Culture, and Development Policies at a Crossroads

Abstract

Content production has recently become a matter of policy concern in Brazil. In this country, significant advances have been registered in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), technological convergence, and the Internet. It is possible to affirm that a historic shift is underway that calls into question the hegemony of the symbolic production of culture. As it is argued, the configuration of cultural production and the media structure in Brazil have responded to accommodations and impacts from external and globalized processes throughout history.