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Access and citizen participation. An update of indicators for the democratization of communications

Abstract

Access and participation are concepts that emerged in the 70s as indicators of the levels of democratization of audiovisual communications. The work seeks to update these notions in a new scenario defined by the convergence between divergent sectors in the past such as audiovisual, computing and telecommunications. For this, is carried out a review of the most recent theoretical developments that address the changes in the broad sector of communication from the view of communication policy proposals and recommendations of legislation emanating from documents of international human rights. Reflection suggests that the actual technological potential to provide a converging universal service, providing internet, audiovisual and telephone services throughout Argentina, it can be seriously limited by onerous conditional modes of access, that can reproduce stratified communication citizenships. This work tries to generate indicators of access and participation that condense particular situations but with a historical look that also consider the increasingly rapid convergence process dynamics.

Keywords
Citizen access; Citizen participation; Democratization; Convergence; Universal service

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