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Debating Communication Imbalances: From the MacBride Report to the World Summit on the Information Society. An Application of Lexical-Content Analysis for a Critical Investigation of Historical Legacies

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Debating Communication Imbalances: From the MacBride Report to the World Summit on the Information Society. An Application of Lexical-Content Analysis for a Critical Investigation of Historical Legacies
Author(s)Padovani, Claudia
AbstractThis paper is a contribution to the reflection on the legacy of international debates on communication and information issues, and related proposals for a New World Information and Communication Order developed in the ’70s and early ’80s, on the ongoing process of the UN World Summit on the Information Society. The aim is to position WSIS in a longer time perspective that would allow a better understanding of the challenges ahead. We start by stressing the need, both for research purposes and political action, for an approach that takes into consideration the depth of historical roots of issues that are currently debated; and we motivate such an historical perspective on the ground of a number of changes that are affecting the world today: the role of communication in social change, transformations in information technology and in the conduct of world politics, the emergence of a global movement on communication issues. We then proceed by identifying major contextual differences between former debates and the present situation. Finally, we apply lexical-content analysis to a selection of documents, with the aim of identifying continuity and change in discourses developed at the international level on communication imbalances, information flows, the role of information technologies for development and the implication of all this for human and communication rights.
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Pages1-39
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SourceInformation Technology and International Cooperation (ITIC programme)
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PubDate 2004
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