Estructura y políticas de la comunicación

This book provides a broad overview of the development of Ibero-American cultural policy in an important and innovative way.

This volume brings together specialists in the field, from different nations and disciplines, and provides the keys to understanding the different trajectories and experiences of some significant countries in the area on both sides of the Atlantic; the recent developments in this domain such as urban cultural regeneration policies and cultural development policies; and the dynamics of policy transfers such as cultural diplomacy. The book also contrasts the applicability and the explanatory power of the idea of the family of nations for the analysis of cultural policy with models inspired by the welfare regimes.

This book allows international researchers an overarching view of the peculiarities and the latest achievements in the field of Ibero-American cultural policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

La censura es un acto violento que bloquea, manipula y controla la interacción entre culturas, que es la función primordial de la traducción. Durante los años que siguieron a la Guerra Civil española y con el advenimiento de la dictadura franquista, en España se erigió un sistema estructurado y organizado de control de toda expresión literaria y artística, local o foránea que no encajara con los principios del régimen. Toda petición de publicación pasaba por unos lectores que debían revisar la obra y rellenar un cuestionario: ¿Ataca al dogma? ¿A la Moral? ¿A la Iglesia o a sus Ministros? ¿Al Régimen o a sus instituciones? ¿A las personas que colaboran o han colaborado con el Régimen? Los pasajes censurables ¿califican el contenido total de la obra? En el caso de las mujeres la censura se encargó de frenar cualquier idea que no fuera en línea con la imagen de la mujer como ángel del hogar del ideario franquista, y así se censuraron parcial y totalmente un número incontable de obras de autoras dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras en tiempos donde, además, la escritura era algo reservado para los hombres. Muchas de estas obras, en muchos casos clave para la historia del pensamiento femenino, siguen circulando cercenadas, mutiladas, reescritas a imagen y semejanza de los censores franquistas.

While the individual elements of the propaganda system (or filters) identified by the Propaganda Model (PM) – ownership, advertising, sources, flak and anti-communism – have previously been the focus of much scholarly attention, their systematisation in a model, empirical corroboration and historicisation have made the PM a useful tool for media analysis across cultural and geographical boundaries.

Despite the wealth of scholarly research Herman and Chomsky's work has set into motion over the past decades, the PM has been subjected to marginalisation, poorly informed critiques and misrepresentations. Interestingly, while the PM enables researchers to form discerning predictions as regards corporate media performance, Herman and Chomsky had further predicted that the PM itself would meet with such marginalisation and contempt.

In current theoretical and empirical studies of mass media performance, uses of the PM continue, nonetheless, to yield important insights into the workings of political and economic power in society, due in large measure to the model's considerable explanatory power.

Este libro analiza el resultado de una política que se transformó en un frente de batalla central para la ex presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y concluye con la restauración, término elegido para describir el abordaje del presidente Mauricio Macri.
La discusión sobre el rol de del periodismo, los intereses de los dueños de los medios y la circulación de la información nunca fue tan intensa como en los años que abarca esta obra. Los autores analizan cada aspecto de la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual, más conocida como la Ley de Medios. Repasan las dificultades que encontró para su ejecución en razón de la resistencia de los grupos mediáticos que veían sus intereses afectados, al tiempo que destacan la discrecionalidad con que el kirchnerismo aplicó el nuevo marco regulatorio (y del análisis surge una paradoja: cómo la subordinación de la política de comunicación a objetivos políticos afectó de manera sustancial las posibilidades de éxito de la primera). Analizan Fútbol para Todos, la propaganda, la gestión de los medios públicos y el reparto de la publicidad oficial, herramientas con las que el kirchnerismo buscó sortear la intermediación de los medios con los que confrontó, y fijan una necesaria distinción entre la comunicación política y las políticas de comunicación, que muchas veces se confunden.
Con una mirada crítica respecto del período que abarcan, los autores refrendan, una vez más, su inquebrantable compromiso con las políticas públicas que desalientan la concentración del mapa de medios y una verdadera democratización de la comunicación.

The Death of Public Knowledge argues for the value and importance of shared, publicly accessible knowledge, and suggests that the erosion of its most visible forms, including public service broadcasting, education, and the network of public libraries, has worrying outcomes for democracy.
With contributions from both activists and academics, this collection of short, sharp essays focuses on different aspects of public knowledge, from libraries and education to news media and public policy. Together, the contributors record the stresses and strains placed upon public knowledge by funding cuts and austerity, the new digital economy, quantification and target-setting, neoliberal politics, and inequality. These pressures, the authors contend, not only hinder democracies, but also undermine markets, economies, and social institutions and spaces everywhere.

Covering areas of international public concern, these polemical, accessible texts include reflections on the fate of schools and education, the takeover of public institutions by private interests, and the corruption of news and information in the financial sector. They cover the compromised Greek media during recent EU negotiations, the role played by media and political elites in the Irish property bubble, the compromising of government policy by corporate interests in the United States and Korea, and the squeeze on public service media in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States.
Individually and collectively, these pieces spell out the importance of maintaining public, shared knowledge in all its forms, and offer a rallying cry for doing so, asserting the need for strong public, financial, and regulatory support.

Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to human rights and what has become of the original ambition to establish a human rights culture.

The human rights regime has been high on the political agenda ever since the Human Rights Act 1998 was enacted. Often maligned in sections of the press, the legislation has entered popular folklore as shorthand for an overbearing government, an overzealous judiciary and exploitative claimants. This book examines a range of significant factors in the mediation of human rights, including: Euroscepticism, the war on terror, the digital reordering of the media landscape, , press concerns about an emerging privacy law and civil liberties.

Mediating Human Rights is a timely exploration of the relationship between law, politics and media. It will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Law, Media Studies, Human Rights, and Politics.

The Law of Public Communication provides an overview of media law that includes the most current legal developments today. It explains the laws affecting the daily work of writers, broadcasters, advertisers, cable operators, Internet service providers, public relations practitioners, photographers, bloggers, and other public communicators. Authors Kent Middleton and William Lee take students through the basic legal principles and methods of analysis that allows students to study and keep abreast of the rapidly changing field of public communication. By presenting statutes and cases in a cohesive manner that is understandable, even to students studying law for the first time, the authors ensure that students will acquire a firm grasp of the legal issues affecting the media.

This 2116 Update brings the Ninth Edition up to date with the most recent cases and examples effecting media professionals and public communicators. New topics include Supreme Court decisions on internet harassment and the streaming company Aereo, the FCC’s efforts to reclassify broadband providers as telecommunication services, court cases dealing publicity rights for celebrity athletes in video games, and the recent presidential executive order regarding new government information sources.

Este complejo informe-propuesta del Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidades (CERMI) plantea ampliar y culminar el marco jurídico de la accesibilidad audiovisual en España, para garantizar plenamente los derechos de las personas con discapacidad sensorial y cognitiva. Con este estudio, coordinado por el experto Ángel García Castillejo, el CERMI pretende nutrir con propuestas de reforma la agenda legislativa en materia de accesibilidad audiovisual y a las tecnologías de información y la comunicación, para que avance conforme al desarrollo tecnológico y a la expansión de los nuevos canales y soportes de comunicación audiovisual.

While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessible—useable—for them.

Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibility—the processes by which media is made usable by people with particular needs—and argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a way that will enable greater participation in all forms of mediated culture. Drawing on disability and cultural studies, Elizabeth Ellcessor uses an interrogatory framework based around issues of regulation, use, content, form, and experience to examine contemporary digital media. Through interviews with policy makers and accessibility professionals, popular culture and archival materials, and an ethnographic study of internet use by people with disabilities, Ellcessor reveals the assumptions that undergird contemporary technologies and participatory cultures. Restricted Access makes the crucial point that if digital media open up opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but that technology only facilitates the participation of those who are already privileged, then its progressive potential remains unrealized. Engagingly written with powerful examples, Ellcessor demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices, and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities to push us to rethink digital media accessibility.

This book explores the interface between terrorism and the internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent extremism online.

The volume focuses on four issues in particular: terrorist propaganda on the internet; radicalisation and the internet; counter campaigns and approaches to disrupting internet radicalisation; and approaches to researching and understanding the role of the internet in radicalisation. The book brings together expertise from a wide range of disciplines and geographical regions including Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. These contributions explore the various roles played by the Internet in radicalisation; the reasons why terroristic propaganda may or may not influence others to engage in violence; the role of political conflict in online radicalisation; and the future of research into terrorism and the internet. By covering this broad range of topics, the volume will make an important and timely addition to the current collections on a growing and international subject.

This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of cyber-security, internet politics, terrorism studies, media and communications studies, and International Relations.