Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela.

Documenting the "messiness" of state-aligned activism is in fact central to the book's argument that community media producers took part in radical state-making alongside representatives of the Chávez-led government in ways that were contingent and uneven. I Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela i upends prescriptive understandings of media/government relations while providing rare insights into life in Hugo Chávez's Venezuela. [Extracted from the article]