Estructura y políticas de la comunicación

Anonymous. Cybercrime. Hacktivist. Cyber security. Now part of the lexicon of our daily language, these words were unknown a decade ago. The evolution and expansion of the Internet has transformed communication, business and politics, and the Internet has become a powerful influence on everyday life globally. But the Internet is a medium that is not controlled by one centralized system, and the debate over who will govern the Internet has commanded attention from a wide range of actors, including states, policy makers and those beyond the traditional tech industries. Organized Chaos: Reimagining the Internet examines the contemporary international politics of Internet governance problems, exploring issues such as cybercrime, activities of the global hacktivist network Anonymous and 'swing states', and highlighting central trends that will play a role in shaping a universal policy to govern the Internet. In this book, some of the world's foremost Internet governance scholars consider the critical problems facing efforts to update and refine Internet governance at an international level and the appropriate framework for doing so. This volume provides the basis for developing a high-level strategic vision required to successfully navigate a multi-faceted, shifting and uncertain governance environment.

La obra recoge estudios e investigaciones monográficas sobre el derecho a la información, reconocido y protegido por el artículo 21 de la Constitución Española, así como por textos internacionales, europeos y del sistema interamericano de Derechos Humanos. Los autores son profesores y estudiosos de las libertades informativas de España y América Latina, constitucionalistas, abogados y expertos en el Derecho de la Información también en su vertiente más tecnológica y profesional.

Las políticas de medios de comunicación ocupan hoy un lugar destacado en la agenda de América Latina, cuyos principales temas son abordados por Martín Becerra en un análisis exhaustivo, documentado y sin fanatismos.

Su análisis avanza sobre la evolución del sistema de medios de comunicación en las últimas décadas, el proceso de concentración de la propiedad y la constitución de los grupos multimedios, la convergencia tecnológica, las nuevas regulaciones en la Argentina y en el resto de América Latina, la coherencia entre los postulados de pluralismo y diversidad, por un lado, y las consecuencias concretas de las políticas de medios, por el otro.

También se interesa por el financiamiento, la publicidad oficial y la función de los medios públicos, en tanto ejes del cambio de ecosistema comunicacional. Cambios todos que impactan sobre la convivencia en sociedad.

Lo que ocurre en el campo de la comunicación condiciona las formas de socialización. Martín Becerra, uno de los más destacados comunicólogos de América Latina, aporta en esta obra nuevos datos sobre la concentración del sector en grandes conglomerados y también sobre la participación de los gobiernos como financiadores y gestores de medios.

Su investigación, que incluye reflexiones sobre la relación entre políticas de comunicación y libertad de expresión, constituye un aporte para elaborar una perspectiva original e imprescindible que comprenda los cambios del presente.

New Media Politics: Rethinking Activism and National Security in Cyberspace explores many of the questions surrounding the new challenges that have arisen as a result of the emergence of cyberspace, including cyber-activism, cyberterrorism, and cyber-security. The chapters in this volume provide case studies that span an array of geographies as they debate questions regarding conceptual issues in cyberspace and the relationship between politics, cyberterrorism and cyber-activism, as well as state and international regulations concerning cyberspace, resistance movements in cyberspace, and media frameworks concerning terrorism, civil liberties, and government restrictions. This collection will provide a venue for discussions on the diverse issues surrounding the theme of new media politics from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The volume is divided into two parts, the first of which focuses on how cyberspace has been used in activism, acts of resistance and protests. The second part investigates issues related to how online media is used in terrorism and how governments have sometimes perceived cyberspace as a threat, leading at times to regulations which threaten to curtail liberties in the name of protecting the “security” of the state against enemies that may be seen as “internal” or “external.”

LA COMPLEJIDAD DE LAS RELACIONES DE COMUNICACIÓN La crisis de la gobernanza europea es evidente pero la comunicación no es la única responsable ni tampoco su exclusiva solución sin que por ello deje de ser menos importante su papel. Aunque parezca una obviedad, la comunicación europea es también lo que es Europa. Pensar lo contrario es creer que el marketing de relaciones -la propaganda , mediática o política, en definitiva- es suficiente para la democracia, la legitimidad y la propia convivencia. La afección alcanza de lleno a la política aunque también deriva a la comunicación, evidentemente.

In The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism, R.J. Maratea explores the practices of political claims-making and activism in online environments in order to better understand whether Internet technology is presently a democratizing force that changes the balance of social power in the public sphere and empowers average citizens to be more active participants in mass media.

Richly detailed research from the point that our information and culture is manufactured – newsrooms, television studios, and myriad other culture producing institutions – is increasingly rare and difficult. Challenges to such research abound and are escalating, ranging from increasingly secretive corporate cultures which see little value in inviting observation of their work, to pressure on scholars to produce more with less – leading to faster and easier modes of research. The explosion in forms of cultural production and ever broader definitions of journalism make the object of analysis ever harder to identify for media production researchers. Chapter authors explore challenges to production research and offer novel approaches to revealing the hidden nature of media production through engagement with alternative theoretical paradigms and methodological innovation.

While neo-liberalism works with a vigorous concept of the free individual, the social sciences regard the individual as a socially positioned actor. In Media and Communications this perspective has been developed most sharply in the proposition of media framing. Media theorists including Manuel Castells and James Curran have debated the question of how media structures human cognition and agency. In this book Chris Rojek explores the relationship between media framing and political power. How does it transfer into political consciousness and activism? And what are the benefits and costs for media corporations such as Viacom or Time Warner? Rojek outlines a new concept – event consciousness – to describe the tendency of the media and network publics to view the world as a series of events, episodes, incidents and emergencies. The social reaction to this is a demand for immediate, direct, rapid action. Classic examples of this are the televised reports on the famine in Ethiopia which inspired Live Aid (1985) or the media coverage of 9/11, which precipitated the invasion of Iraq. He goes on to to link this media patterning to distinct forms of political consciousness characteristic of what Sheldon Wolin has referred to as inverted totalitarianism. Event Consciousness is a devastating critique of the influence of media on contemporary political power, rooted in both media and political theory that will become an essential text for students and scholars of both media studies and politics.

This timely Research Handbook contains an analysis of various legal questions concerning cyberspace and cyber activities and provides a critical account of their effectiveness. Expert contributors examine the application of fundamental international law principles to cyberspace such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, state responsibility, individual criminal responsibility, and intellectual property rights. In addition to this, they explore the application of international law rules to cyber terrorism, cyber espionage, cyber crime, cyber attacks and cyber war and discuss the cyber security policies of international and regional institutions.

Esta obra colectiva tiene su origen en el I Congreso Internacional sobre Propiedad Intelectual celebrado en la Universidad de Sevilla y en ella podrá encontrar el lector aportaciones muy valiosas de prestigiosos profesionales que le permitirán profundizar en el conocimiento de la propiedad intelectual. En dichas contribuciones se abordan temas de gran actualidad en un complejo contexto en el que la propiedad intelectual continúa centrando la atención de nuestro legislador (muestra de ello, lo es la reciente reforma de la LPI), preocupado por adecuar el régimen jurídico a las exigencias internacionales y, a la vez, por atender satisfactoriamente los distintos intereses concurrentes, objetivo prácticamente inalcanzable en este cambiante y competitivo mundo.