Journal of Latin American Communication Research

Authors

Miguel A Torres — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

Authors of the Journal of Latin American Communication Research 14 (1).

Academic and Scientific Cooperation in Communication: Dialogue, Reciprocity, and Situated Knowledge

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This dossier arises from a set of questions that are both urgent and strategic for the contemporary field of communication studies. At a time marked by geopolitical tensions, technological transformations, institutional asymmetries, democratic fragilities, and renewed debates on coloniality, gender, open science, and public communication, academic and scientific cooperation can no longer be understood merely as a technical matter, an administrative procedure, or a diplomatic extension of institutional life. Cooperation must be examined as an epistemological, political, communicative, and ethical practice.

“It is About Solidarity. It is About Being Part of a Community, However Diverse That Community May Be”.

Dr. Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Nico Carpentier — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This interview with Nico Carpentier explores the role of academic cooperation, international scholarly associations, and transnational research networks in shaping the field of communication studies. Drawing on his experiences with organizations such as ECREA, IAMCR, and collaborative initiatives with ALAIC, Carpentier reflects on the importance of dialogue, solidarity, multilingualism, and democratic academic cultures in the production and circulation of knowledge. The conversation addresses challenges facing global scholarship, including academic precarity, epistemic inequalities, linguistic hierarchies, nationalism, and threats to academic freedom. It also highlights the value of plural epistemologies, multimodal forms of scholarly communication, and collaborative practices that bridge regions, traditions, and institutions. Ultimately, the interview argues that academic cooperation is not merely an organizational strategy but a fundamental condition for critical, inclusive, and socially engaged knowledge production in a rapidly changing world.

Decoloniality and Ancestrality in Platform-based Community Communication

Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article seeks to characterize Community Communication in the decolonial and ancestral dimensions of its initiatives and practices. It emphasizes the current vitality of this field of study through the construction and visibility of the diversity that constitutes different territories, based on the production and programming of media content that operates on different platforms. Based on an exploratory research of books, articles, and documents, it discusses processes triggered by recent initiatives that seek to redefine themselves through their actions in digital and traditional media, such as those of the Coalition of Peripheral, Indigenous, and Quilombola Media and of Media Brazil Territory, as well as perspectives for the formulation and implementation of public policies that legitimize and disseminate them.

In Pursuit of Understanding: The Importance of Research Co-operation

Beate Josephi — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This paper reflects on the importance of international research cooperation in communication and journalism studies, emphasizing the role of scholarly associations and global research networks in fostering intellectual exchange across regions and traditions. Drawing on experiences with organizations such as the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC), the article examines how collaborative initiatives have expanded knowledge production beyond traditional Western centers. Particular attention is given to large-scale projects such as the Worlds of Journalism Study and the Journalistic Role Performance project, which seek to generate comparative understanding of journalism cultures worldwide. The paper also addresses persistent challenges faced by researchers in the Global South, including political constraints, uneven participation in international projects, and the continued dominance of Western normative frameworks in academic evaluation. It argues that future cooperation should not only broaden participation but also promote alternative epistemologies and evaluative criteria that recognize the achievements and agency of journalists working under diverse political and cultural conditions.

Academic Cooperation from the Souths: Geopolitics of the Gaze, Cognitive and Epistemic Justices

Jair Vega — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

In this article I reflect on academic and scientific cooperation among institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, the misnamed "Global South": the Souths, and in Europe and the United States, from a decolonial perspective articulated around the geopolitics of the gaze, cognitive justice, and epistemic justice. I approach cooperation not as a technical matter, but as a political-epistemic field traversed by power relations and structural inequalities. Drawing on Latin American thought -including contributions from feminism, Indigenous and Afrodescendant communities, and social movements- and in dialogue with African, Asian, and critical Northern traditions, I problematize three dimensions: interinstitutionality, interdisciplinarity, and intersectorality. I also reflect on the challenges of cooperation in contexts of authoritarianism, anti-rights movements, and funding constraints, emphasizing the need to strengthen South-South networks and inter-epistemic dialogues. A cooperation with a decolonial vocation requires a situated social science, committed to equity, social justice, human rights, and democratic and plural forms of governance.

This Anglo-corporate Hegemony Must End

Toby Miller — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This essay looks at how structures of imperial power characterize the production, distribution, and recognition of academic writing, notably through the hegemony of English. It interrogates questions of language, scholarly publishing, and imperialism, with a particular focus on disciplines associated with the media and communications, in a Latin American context.

Interinstitutional Academic Cooperation: Reciprocity, Power, and Situated Dialogue among Scientific Communication Associations

Tanius Karam — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article examines interinstitutional academic cooperation (IAC) among scientific associations, universities, research groups, and scholars in the field of communication. Although cooperation is a frequent practice through conferences, publications, networks, exchanges, and joint projects, it has not always been subjected to systematic critical reflection. The article argues that IAC should not be understood merely as an administrative or diplomatic activity, but as a communicative, epistemological, and political practice shaped by power asymmetries, material inequalities, linguistic hierarchies, geopolitical differences, and disputes over knowledge production. Drawing on Latin American communication studies, critiques of the coloniality of knowledge, epistemologies of the South, and debates on the geopolitics of science, the article proposes several guiding principles for more just and sustainable cooperation: non-instrumental reciprocity, situated horizontality, epistemological plurality, institutional memory, and care. It also discusses practical challenges such as moving from invitation-based models to co-design, recognizing the invisible hierarchy of language, addressing material and symbolic asymmetries, establishing shared responsibility and follow-up mechanisms, and creating flexible, multilevel, hybrid, and differentiated forms of collaboration. The central argument is that academic cooperation must create conditions for unequally situated actors to participate, decide, contribute, and benefit from shared intellectual work. In this sense, IAC can become a strategic practice for building more reciprocal, non-extractive, and regionally situated forms of knowledge circulation and recognition.

Situated Scientific Cooperation in Latin America: the JRP Experience

Miguel Garcés Prettel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article reflects on some contemporary challenges facing academic and scientific cooperation in Latin America (LATAM) through the experience of the international project Journalism Role Performance (JRP), particularly from the Colombian node. The text emerges from the reflections developed during Panel 2, “Actions carried out and underway in LATAM: Latin American efforts in communication and cooperation”, held within the framework of the Latin American Seminar on Communication and Academic and Scientific Cooperation organized by ALAIC in 2025. Drawing on this experience, the article examines inequalities shaping knowledge production, the limitations of competitive models of academic productivity, and the difficulties involved in sustaining long-term collaborative projects. Finally, it argues for the need to strengthen situated forms of cooperation capable of articulating methodological deliberation, research training, social appropriation of knowledge, and commitment to territorial realities.

SOCICOM's Academic and Scientific Cooperation Activities

Anderson David Gomes dos Santos — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

The purpose of this article is to describe how SOCICOM (Brazilian Federation of Scientific and Academic Communication Associations) engages in academic cooperation by organizing activities that foster dialogue between Brazilian research associations and those in other Latin American countries. Here, we focus on two event formats: the SOCICOM Forum, held in partnership with ALAIC (Latin American Association of Communication Researchers), which is the result of an ongoing policy of collaboration with that association; and the SOCICOM Latin American Dialogues, as an attempt at thematic coordination. These experiences, combined with the panels organized by and in conjunction with ALAIC, demonstrate the importance of forming international networks that discuss, in a horizontal manner, the challenges and potential prospects of Communication and Digital Technologies in contemporary society, while taking into account the relevant local specificities.

On the history of Communication research and meta-research in Latin America

Raul Fuentes Navarro — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article proposes, from a communicational perspective, the terms for a continued discussion on history and some strategic and practical relationships between research and meta-research on communication in Latin America. To this end, it emphasizes the importance of history as an indispensable approach and a complement to descriptive statistics and offers some controversial reflections on postulates that seem essential to debate anew within the academic community, in its continental as well as its international scales. The main hypothesis considers communication research as subject to a “disintegrated internationalization,” tensioning convergence and fragmentation at different scales of reference.

Building Global Networks for Collaborative Journalism Research and Cross-Border Journalism Education: Lessons Learned from Five Projects at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article examines the role of academic cooperation as a communicative and epistemic infrastructure through the experience of five international journalism research and education projects coordinated by the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at TU Dortmund University. Drawing on comparative studies of media accountability, migration coverage across Europe and Africa, and multilingual journalism education initiatives, the article argues that contemporary academic cooperation extends beyond institutional exchange to become a mechanism for negotiating knowledge, professional norms, and methodological frameworks across linguistic, cultural, and geopolitical boundaries. The analysis highlights both the opportunities and challenges of transnational collaboration, including issues of epistemic plurality, digital inequality, language hierarchies, and asymmetries in research infrastructure. The projects discussed demonstrate how international cooperation can foster more dialogical, context-sensitive, and inclusive forms of knowledge production while simultaneously revealing the tensions that shape global communication research and journalism education. The article concludes that academic cooperation has become a central practice for sustaining critical, comparative, and globally interconnected communication scholarship in an era of geopolitical fragmentation and democratic uncertainty.

China’s New Development Communication: Paradigm Shift and Practical Implications for the Global South

Zhang Yanqiu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0300

For decades, global development communication has been dominated by Western-centric theoretical frameworks that fail to adapt to the complex historical, cultural and socioeconomic contexts of the Global South. Against this backdrop, neo-developmentalism has emerged as a compelling alternative ideology. Taking China’s long-standing communication practices as the research subject, this paper systematically interprets the theoretical origins, operational logic and practical applications of New Development Communication (NDC) under the guidance of neo-developmentalism. Compared with the modernization, critical cultural imperialism and participatory communication paradigms prevalent in the West, China’s NDC represents a fundamental paradigm shift. It pursues multi-dimensional holistic development, adheres to the philosophy of constructive journalism, and relies on the synergy of state governance, market dynamics and grassroots participation. This paper elaborates NDC’s extensive implementation across governance, economy, ethnic cohesion, ecological civilization and targeted poverty alleviation. It further verifies NDC’s value in reshaping the global communication landscape. This study concludes that China’s NDC serves as a referable model for media reform in Latin America and other Global South regions, and facilitates the construction of indigenous knowledge systems in the field of development communication.

Pluralism, pressure, and partnership: AANZCA and the future of global communication scholarship

Renee Barnes — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article advances an "archaeology" of academic cooperation in communication research from the standpoint of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA), in dialogue with ALAIC's Carta de La Paz and the Research traditions in dialogue project. It argues that AANZCA's forty-five-year history is best read as a deliberate experiment in disciplinary pluralism, sustained through trans-Tasman expansion, durable journal and prize infrastructure, and the articulation of eclecticism as a position rather than a deficit. Drawing on Waisbord's post-discipline thesis and bibliometric evidence ranking Australia third and New Zealand twenty-first among 130 countries publishing in Communication, the article positions AANZCA's pluralism as the practical basis for reciprocal, non-hegemonic cooperation with international partners. International cooperation, it concludes, is now a precondition for sustaining critical communication research.

Gender, Trajectories, and Academic Recognition: Experiences of Pioneer Women Researchers in Communication in Mexico

Marta Rizo García — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article analyzes, from a feminist and meta-research perspective, the professional trajectories of six pioneering women researchers in the field of communication in Mexico. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it examines experiences of gender inequality, the impact of motherhood on academic careers, forms of epistemic invisibility, women’s support networks, and the institutional contributions of these scholars to the development of the field. The analysis is grounded in feminist theories of situated knowledge, epistemic injustice, and recent debates in communication meta-research. Findings reveal that communication Mexican academia reproduces inequalities through subtle yet persistent mechanisms, while also highlighting women’s capacity to create collaborative practices, horizontal leadership forms, and new feminist genealogies of communication. The article argues for a reconfiguration of the disciplinary canon based on the voices and experiences of these pioneers.

Algorithmic Knowledge: Generative AI and the Transformation of Scientific Communication

Paulo Faustino, Wilson Gomes Caldeira — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article explores the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on academic and scientific communication, analysing how the automation and mediation of AI-generated writing destabilises authorship, authenticity and the credibility of scientific communication. Drawing on existing literature and a qualitative methodology based on case study analysis of synthetic bibliographic references, the algorithmic reuse of retracted scientific literature, and the degradation of synthetic data, the study seeks to understand the impact of AI on the academic and scientific environment. It further discusses the epistemological and ethical implications of the dependence on generative models in the construction and validation of knowledge. It is argued that AI should be understood not merely as a support tool for research, but as a new communication infrastructure, within which what we term "synthetic scientific memory" is constructed — created through probabilistic means of knowledge generation and recombination.

Communication and Epistemological Struggle: An Approach to the History of the Field and the Dialogue between Political Economy and Decolonial Studies

César Bolaño — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article examines the historical development of communication studies in Latin America through the trajectory of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC) and the evolution of critical communication thought in the region. It identifies four major stages in the field’s development, from communication and development studies and cultural imperialism theories to Latin American cultural studies and contemporary debates surrounding the political economy of communication. The article argues that current transformations in global capitalism, digital platforms, and geopolitical tensions have reopened the need for a renewed epistemological project capable of articulating critical perspectives across the field. Particular attention is devoted to the Political Economy of Communication (PEC) and its institutional consolidation in Latin America, as well as to the emergence of Decolonial Studies as a significant intellectual force. Rather than treating these traditions as mutually exclusive, the article proposes a dialogue between Marxist political economy and decolonial thought, drawing especially on the work of Enrique Dussel. It concludes that the epistemological struggle in communication research today requires interdisciplinary collaboration capable of confronting technological determinism, epistemic coloniality, and contemporary forms of capitalist domination while strengthening Latin American critical thought and its international projection.

Networked communication. International academic cooperation and the construction of collective intelligence from the UNESCO Chair Comunic.ar

Malvina Eugenia Rodríguez — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

UNESCO Chairs within the UNITWIN programme constitute institutional devices for international academic cooperation that, in the Global South, operate in tension with the historical hierarchies of the scientific system. This article analyses the trajectory of the UNESCO Chair "Public Communication for Social Justice, Human Rights and Territorial Development" (Comunic.ar), based at the Universidad Nacional de Villa María (Argentina) and alongside an International Network of associated universities, during the period 2022–2026. Drawing on perspectives from public communication, Latin American decolonial thought, and South-South cooperation, it examines how this Chair articulates Latin American and global academic networks to produce situated knowledge in public communication from the Global South. The results of the study, based on documentary analysis and systematisation of experiences, evidence a sustained expansion of inter-institutional ties with impact on communication, democracy and human rights agendas at regional and global scales.

Disputing Global Knowledge From The South: Institutionalization of Communication, Mutual Support Networks, and The Institutional Contribution of ABOIC

Jenny Carol Ampuero Justiniano — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article provides a structural and historical analysis of the institutionalization of communication research in Latin America, examining the emergence and consolidation of continental and national scientific associations as fundamental networks of cooperation and intellectual resistance. Through a critical-epistemological review, it recovers the legacy of Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Antonio Pasquali, Armand Mattelart, and José Marques de Melo, who constructed a theoretical matrix oriented toward democratic, participatory, and ethical communication. Furthermore, the text articulates contemporary conceptual advances to examine how foundational principles are reactivated within today's networked environments and digital mediations, without abandoning the axis of cognitive and social sovereignty. From a situated perspective, it reflects on the trajectory of the Bolivian Association of Communication Researchers (ABOIC), its refounding in 1999, its dialogic practices, and its active participation in the Latin American Seminar on Communication and Academic and Scientific Cooperation (2025).

University, Philia, and Parrhesia, The INTRACOM Proposal

Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This paper reflects on the public responsibility of the university through two concepts rooted in the classical tradition that remain highly relevant today: parrhesia, understood as an ethical commitment to truth, and philia, conceived as the bond of trust and cooperation that makes human community possible. From this perspective, knowledge transfer is examined not only as an institutional function but also as a democratic responsibility aimed at strengthening critical citizenship. Finally, INTRACOM is proposed as a project of academic parrhesia and philia designed to foster research, knowledge transfer, and scientific cooperation across the Ibero-American sphere.

AMIC Scientific Research, Mexico

Lizy Navarro Zamora — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

The main topic of this chapter is the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers (AMIC). It covers its beginnings, evolution, and present state, along with the most important data and elements of its contributions. It presents the results of a study conducted on participation in the "37th AMIC National and International Conference," under the theme "Communication and Social Impact." The questionnaire was administered to 446 participants. Among the main findings is the encouragement AMIC provides to share, discuss, and offer feedback on the scientific research of both young and established researchers. Around 35% hold recognition from the National System of Researchers of Mexico.

Researching to Transform: Feminist Agendas in Latin American Communication

Yanet Martínez Toledo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article analyzes two regional experiences of research cooperation in communication from gender and feminist perspectives: the trajectories of ALAIC's Thematic Group on Communication, Gender, and Diversities (2018-2024), and the Mujeres de la Comunicación collection (FES, 2021-2025). It argues that the field has become consolidated as an epistemologically committed space grounded in situated knowledge, intersectionality, and decoloniality. The article identifies significant advances and pending agendas in regional feminist research. The field is characterized as cumulative, polycentric, and oriented toward social transformation, although methodological, geographical, and political tensions persist.

Academic International Cooperation as Collective Action from Latin America

Luisa Ochoa — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article examines academic and scientific cooperation in communication research in Latin America, approaching it not as mere institutional management but as a form of collective action articulated through narratives, emotions, and participation strategies. Drawing on a reading and coding of the transcripts of panels from the Latin American Seminar on Communication and Academic-Scientific Cooperation, the article identifies four narratives of regional cooperation: an institutional response to Anglo-Saxon hegemony, a foundational search for a voice of one's own, resistance to scientific capitalism, and the ethical-political centrality of communication. The analysis also incorporates an affective dimension and examines concrete participation practices. The article argues that thinking about cooperation through these categories shifts the focus from formal agreements toward the relational bonds that sustain them, and that this perspective is indispensable for South-South and North-South cooperation in communication to confront structural asymmetries of funding, language, and recognition. It concludes by outlining a concrete agenda for the region's academic associations.

Scientific Cooperation and Academic Associations in Communication Studies: AE-IC and the Construction of Horizontal Ibero-American Knowledge Networks

Jessica Retis, Iolanda Tortajada, Carmen Peñafiel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300

Academic associations play a key role in structuring international scientific cooperation in communication studies. This article analyzes the evolution and internationalization of the Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación (AE-IC) as a case study of how scholarly organizations operate as infrastructures for transnational collaboration. Based on qualitative and documentary analysis of institutional materials and international initiatives, the study situates AE-IC within debates on scientific cooperation, epistemic asymmetries, and the geopolitics of knowledge. The framework combines network theory, decolonial approaches, and communication scholarship, emphasizing dialogic communication, epistemic justice, and collaboration. Findings show that AE-IC has evolved from a nationally focused association into an actor integrated into international networks, especially in the Ibero-American space. Its working groups and initiatives promote more dialogic, multilingual, and reciprocal cooperation, although structural asymmetries persist. The article proposes a model of horizontal academic cooperation based on reciprocity, epistemic plurality, multilingualism, and open science.