Abstract This article examines the transnational networks and dialogues that made educational television a matter of national security and a tool for development in Cold War Brazil. The history of television during the Cold War has generally focused on the United States and Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union and its allies, leaving Latin America on the peripheries of scholarship on the era's essential communications medium. By situating the development of Brazilian educational television in a hemispheric context, this article illuminates the transnational exchanges between U.S. communications scholars and politicians, Brazilian technocrats and military officers, and international aid organizations that initially regarded television as a potential danger to the moral development of children but came to see it as a tool for educational uplift when Brazil fell under a military dictatorship (1964–1985).
Thamyris Almeida (Thu,) studied this question.