Documentos, nacionales e internacionales, relacionada a libertad de expresión y derechos conexos de libre acceso https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/84 2026-09-15T07:08:13Z 2026-09-15T07:08:13Z Weber, Mathias Koehler, Christina https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12316 2026-09-14T13:43:14Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título : Illusions of Knowledge: Media Exposure and Citizens’ Perceived Political Competence Autor : Weber, Mathias; Koehler, Christina Resumen : Citizens’ willingness to participate in politics is contingent on not only factual political knowledge but their subjective perceptions of competence. We argue that media exposure influences such subjective perceptions as being knowledgeable and capable of judging political issues. More specifically, we assume that incomprehensible news items impair people’s perceived political competence, while comprehensible news items strengthen citizens’ perceived knowledge and power of judgment without necessarily contributing to political learning. An online experiment reveals that cognitive style moderates the assumed relationship. Participants with a high need for cognition (NFC) feel more competent when confronted with a comprehensible news item; for participants with a low NFC, reading a less comprehensible news item resulted in a more pronounced sense of competence.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Meeks, Lindsay https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12315 2026-09-14T13:42:52Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título : Thank You, Mr. President: Journalist Gender in Presidential News Conferences Autor : Meeks, Lindsay Resumen : Many factors can influence journalists and the news. This study focuses on the influence of a journalist’s gender in the White House press corps by examining presidential news conferences and comparing what issues male and female journalists cover in their questions across eight administrations, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. This content analysis revealed three notable trends. First, women did not get called upon more often for questions over the course of the eight administrations. Second, in the aggregate, men and women were similar in their issue emphases. Third, when an additional influence was taken into account—the administration’s party affiliation—men and women journalists shifted their issue emphases.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchs, Christian https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12314 2026-09-14T13:42:19Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título : Information Technology and Sustainability in the Information Society Autor : Fuchs, Christian Resumen : The sustainability concept has developed in a policy context. Its main relevance has been in policy forums such as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. In the realm of information and communication technologies (ICTs), sustainability has played a policy role in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society. This article asks: How can we think of sustainability and ICTs in the context of a critical theory of society? How is the sustainability of ICTs related to capitalism and class? It provides a critique of the dominant reductionist and dualistic understandings of information technology sustainability in an information society context. The question that arises in this context is whether, from a critical theory perspective, the sustainability concept should be discarded. The view advanced in this article is that a critical social theory should provide an ideology critique of information technology sustainability; at the same time, it should not discard, but transform, the sustainability concept into a critical notion of un/sustainable information technology sustainability in the context of the information society.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Pentzold, Christian https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12313 2026-09-14T13:41:55Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título : Editorial Surveillance and the Management of Visibility in Peer Production Autor : Pentzold, Christian Resumen : This article investigates the scopic regimes of computer-mediated peer production and the possibilities for seeing, knowing, and governing that are entailed in its accomplishment. Examining the case of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the analysis takes a closer look at the everyday routines of mutual observation and the tools that authors have crafted to watch over each other through an archive of wiki-based activities. Based on a three-year ethnographic study among English- and German-language contributors, the article interrogates the technologically enabled gaze they direct to collaborative activities as a form of mutual editorial surveillance. Regarding the status of the knowledge circulated in such environments, it characterizes the management of visibility as an exploitation of both operational cognizance and nescience. In conclusion, the reciprocal information gathering by users about their peers invites to redraft, once again, concepts of panopticism commonly employed to describe modern societies of control and discipline.

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