DERECHO Y CUARTO PODER EN LA ERA DIGITAL

Authors

  • ANDRÉS BOIX PALOP
  • GUILLERMO LÓPEZ GARCÍA

Keywords:

Internet public regulation, Digital communication, Public opinion, Mass media in the Internet, Internet Anti-trust laws.

Abstract

The development of digital technologies has had significant effects in the structure of the mass media system, (considerably modified and extended by effect of the digitalization) and also in the whole public opinion formation process. In synthesis, both are changing now from a hierarchic and unidirectional model, where the message issuer concentrates the power, to a multidirectional one, much more «equalitarian » and promoter of pluralism. Obviously, these changes have also affected the role that has to play the State as regulator of the information flow. This paper begins with an initial reflection about these changes, and finally evaluates the performance, not only of big mass media groups but also of the Administration, related to the new panorama outlined, often too guided by criteria and attitudes that we can understand only under circumstances that are no longer in place.

Published

2008-03-24