Armand Mattelart (born January 8, 1936) is a Belgian sociologist and well known as a Leftist French scholar. His work deals with media, culture and communication, specially in their historical and international dimensions.

In 1962, he graduated from the University of Louvain, Belgium and departed to Chile, where he lived until 1973. There he was a professor of the sociology of communication at the Universidad Católica de Chile, and a United Nations expert in social development. In 1975 he direct a feature-length film on Chile, La Spirale. When Salvador Allende won the presidency, he worked in the media reformation program. After the coup of 1973, he left Chile for France. Between 1975 and 1982, he taught at the University of Paris VII and VIII. Between 1983 and 1997 he has been Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, and in the postgraduate program at Paris III (Nouvelle Sorbonne) -Rennes 2. Between 1997-2004, he has been Professor at the Université of Paris VIII. Since September 2004, he is Professor Emeritus.

He has carried out numerous research projects in Europe, Latin America, and Africa.

[edit] Books translated into English

• How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic. (with Ariel Dorfman, translation by David Kunzle) ISBN 0-88477-023-0 (International general Editions, 1975)
• Communication and Class Struggle. An Anthology in two volumes (with Seth Siegelaub, International general Editions, 1979 and 1983)*
• Multinational Corporations and the control of Culture, (Harvester Press, 1979)
• Mass Media, Ideologies and the Revolutionary Movement, (Harvester Press, 1980)
• Transnationals and the Third World: The Struggle for Culture, (Bergin and Garvey, 1983)
• International Image Markets. In Search of an Alternative, (with Michèle Mattelart and Xavier Delcourt, Comedia, 1984)
• Communication and Information Technologies: Freedom of Choice for Latin America?, (with Hector Schmucler, Ablex, 1985)
• Technology, Culture and Communication: A Report to the French Ministry of Research and Industry, (with Yves Stourdzé, Elsevier, 1985)
• (Editor) Communicating in Popular Nicaragua. An Anthology , (International general Editions, 1986)
• The Carnaval of Images: Brazilian Television Fiction, (with Michèle Mattelart, Greenwood, 1990)
• Advertising International: The Privatization of Public Space (Routledge, 1991)
• Rethinking Media Theories: Signposts and New Direction, (with Michèle Mattelart, University of Minnesota Press, 1992)
• Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
• The Invention of Communication, (University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
• Theories of Communication. An Introduction, (with Michèle Mattelart, SAGE Publications,1998)
• Networking the World 1794-2000 (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
• The Information Society: An Introduction (SAGE Publications, 2003)

[edit] External links

• Articles by Mattelart
• Biography