Armand Mattelart

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Armand Mattelart (born January 8, 1936) is a Belgian sociologist. He is one of the most renown Leftist French scholars. His works deal with media, culture and communication, specially in their historical and international dimension.

In 1962, he graduated from the University of Lovaina, Belgyum and departed to Chile, where he lived until 1973. He worked as a lecturer in the School of Sociology of the Universidad Católica de Chile. When Salvador Allende won the presidency, he worked in the media reformation project.

He worked for the Vatican, in studies about the birth control politics proposed by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation for Latin America, within the framework of the program Alliance for Progress of the American president John F. Kennedy.

After the coup of 1973, he left to France. He is professor at the University of Paris

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