“La rebelión la hicieron nuestros padres, ahora la revolución lo hacen y lo harán los hijos, porque nuestros padres no tuvieron la oportunidad de conocer la verdadera historia (…) aquella que nos habla de los indios, los campesinos y los originarios” (Omar Ramírez,...
At the contemporary historical moment, innovations in networked digital technologies are rapidly diffusing around the world, impacting terrains of economics and politics, languages, mobilities, and cultures. As part of this process, organizations are establishing infrastructures and services in indigenous territories. These developments are...
This article analyzes the sites of struggle through which First Peoples have negotiated communication and cultural rights for broadcasting (1991), telecommunications, and Internet infrastructure in rural and remote indigenous communities in Canada’s Northern territories, focusing mainly though not exclusively, on Nunavut, the Inuit...
Media Development 2014/2 Indigenous media and digital self-determination The aim of this issue of Media Development was to begin to explore how Indigenous / First Nations / Aboriginal people are building their own media and communication networks. It was conceived as a way of reviewing some of...
It was in 1948, with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that the United Nations proclaimed the family as “the natural and fundamental unit of society entitled to protection by society and the State.” In the following decades, as the concept of...
The family remains the basic societal unit of reproduction, consumption, asset-building and – in many parts of the world – production. Families bear the primary responsibility for the development, education and socialization of children. They provide material and non-material care and support to their...
Throughout the world, children are using media and communication technologies at ever younger ages. As technologies increasingly fill families’ “time, their houses, their children’s bedrooms and pockets” (Livingstone & Das, 2010:1), it seems that almost every experience – of play, learning, participation, work,...
En la plenitud de su vida intelectual, Jean Paul Sartre emprendió una empresa que nadie, hasta ese momento (me refiero a los años 60 del siglo pasado) había intentado: comprender todo un hombre. Hablo de su libro El idiota de la familia, basado en la...
El presente artículo busca presentar en forma somera algunos derroteros de la Comunicación/Educación en Chile (CECh), desde la década del setenta hasta fines del 2013. Tratándose de un breve texto resume solo algunas tendencias. Asume que la CECh debe entenderse en el contexto de...
In the 1990s there was no actual research concerning young people’s use of the internet, which meant that safety advice tended to be underpinned by assumptions and speculations. It was common to disseminate horrific stories about the internet, pornography, sexual offenders and vulnerable children....
