Telenovela, recepción y debate social

Bernardo Amigo; María Cecilia Bravo; Francisco Osorio

doi:10.7764/cdi.35.654

Authors

Bernardo Amigo Universidad de Chile
María Cecilia Bravo Universidad de Chile
Francisco Osorio Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.35.654

Keywords:

soap opera, identification, media representation, social uses, gender

Abstract

This paper synthesizes an ensemble of qualitative empirical research on Chilean television fiction carried out between 2007 and 2014. Specifically, the article focuses on mechanisms of interaction configured between television and viewers through the television genre of telenovela. It concludes that the dynamic of social debate can influence the symbolic conditions for the production of the television discourse, argument that opposes the classic thesis of the television’s direct effects on society.

Author Biographies

Bernardo Amigo, Universidad de Chile

Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a Tenured Professor of the Department of Sociology of the University of Chile. Researcher and coordinator of the Laboratorio Cultura Mediática (www.culturamediatica.cl), Chile. His lines of research are sociology of communication and media, socio-anthropology of technology and political communication.

María Cecilia Bravo, Universidad de Chile

Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She is professor and Undergraduate Director of the Institute of Communication and Image of the University of Chile. Researcher at the Laboratorio Cultura Mediática (www.culturamediatica.cl), Chile. Her lines of research are history of the media, research methodology in communication and communication, democracy and citizenship.

Francisco Osorio, Universidad de Chile

Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a Social Anthropologist of the University of Chile. He is Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chile. He is Director of the magazine Cinta de Moebio (www moebio.uchile.cl) and member of the Media Culture Laboratory (www.culturamediatica.cl). His lines of research are epistemology and media anthropology.