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- Title
Rastros de censura y autocensura: revelaciones del poder y el miedo sobre el periodismo (en Ecuador 2010-2016).
- Authors
Pérez Martínez, Javier
- Abstract
In particular, in the journalistic work censorship and self-censorship are manifested as obstacles to bring the truth closer to published works. Media professionals tend to limit their exercise, sometimes in the public space due to external pressures or psychological burdens. Both concepts (censorship and self-censorship) feed on each other and form part of the same dialogical phenomenon that restricts the freedom of expression of the journalist subject, on the other hand, an essential condition for carrying out their work. In this way, considering this context, power and fear are seen as central categories that connect the causes and effects of censorship and self-censorship. Through these elements (power and fear) and what we identify as a route of coercion, the analysis and evaluation of the control mechanisms and instruments faced by communicators in Ecuador, in the second stage of President Rafael Correa, is addressed. After the rupture with the neoliberal governments (2007), the Ecuadorian State designed a regulatory, bureaucratic, citizen control and propaganda apparatus previously unknown in the country. If a decade ago the media were subject to the great power of communication corporations, today, after this cycle “the State has become a media protagonist” (Zeas, 2014, par. 7). With this, it was proposed to examine how institutional and legal changes affected the practice of journalism and what are the threats that exist under this scenario.
- Subjects
ECUADOR; FREEDOM of expression; CORREA, Rafael, 1963-; PUBLIC spaces; CENSORSHIP; PROPAGANDA; SELF-censorship; JOURNALISM; BUREAUCRACY
- Publication
Comunicación, 2022, Issue 47, p31
- ISSN
0120-1166
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18566/comunica.n47.a03