https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/84 Documentos, nacionales e internacionales, relacionada a libertad de expresión y derechos conexos de libre acceso Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:13:48 GMT 2026-10-05T16:13:48Z https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12437 Título : The Curious Absence of Economic Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission: An Agency in Search of a Mission Autor : Faulhaber, Gerald; Singer, Hal; Urschel, Augustus Resumen : Past regulations informed by economic analysis at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have positively affected the U.S. economy: from opening long-distance telephone markets, to enabling the proliferation of enhanced data Internet services, to spurring the growth of new wireless markets. The failure of the FCC to ground its regulations in economic reasoning in the past few years has led to inefficient policies and proposals that threaten to eviscerate prior benefits. The resolution of the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order illuminates the quagmire for policymakers: Given the D.C. Circuit’s willingness to defer to the FCC’s expertise in policy, and given the FCC’s willingness to eschew econometric evidence and economic theory as it considers new regulations, the most direct way to reinject economics into FCC policymaking is via a Congressional mandate. There is no reason why the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and a host of other agencies should be required to perform cost–benefit analysis, while the FCC is free to embrace populism as its guiding principle. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12437 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12436 Título : Celebrity Influence and Young People’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery in Singapore: The Role of Parasocial Relationships and Identification Autor : Wen, Nainan Resumen : There is concern that young people worldwide are undergoing an increasing number of cosmetic surgeries that are associated with physical and psychological risks. This study examined whether and how this trend of seeking cosmetic surgery was influenced by young people’s exposure to mediated celebrities in Singapore. This study employed two psychological concepts—parasocial relationships and identification—from the celebrity influence model to disentangle the media effects of celebrities. A survey of 555 college students showed that exposure to mediated celebrities directly and indirectly influenced young people’s attitudes toward cosmetic surgery. The indirect path was mediated by parasocial relationships and identification. Our findings contribute to the theory of celebrity influence and provide information that can inform future health communication. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12436 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12435 Título : The Afterlife of Critique: The Communicability of Criticism and the Publicity of Polemic Concerning Public Debate in the Turkish Press Autor : Gürsoy, A; Karanfil, Gokcen Resumen : The philosophical activity of critique is intimately connected with the mundane activity of public criticism that takes place in newspapers. Drawing on the Kantian tradition of critical philosophy, we argue that four axes, namely, self-examination, liminal interrogation, concern with legitimacy, and the requirement of communicability, are implied by critical discourse and public debate. We then examine a recent set of polemics (between Doğan Akın, Ali Bayramoğlu, and Etyen Mahçupyan) in the Turkish press with the aid of these axes—as well as techniques for the analysis of informal reasoning—to determine what critical function such polemics may have. We conclude that critique survives as polemic in the Turkish press, but in such a way that the latter’s publicity vitiates the former’s communicability. The result is that polemics ultimately track the balance of power between social forces rather than being a transformative element within them. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12435 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12434 Título : Good News in Bad News: How Negativity Enhances Economic Efficacy Autor : Svenson, Hellle; Abaek, Erik; Dalen, Arjen; Vreese, Claes Resumen : Negativity is a news ideology, and its negative effects on attitude formation are widely documented. Contrary to this view, the present study demonstrates that negative economic news can in fact be good news. Based on a two-wave national panel survey and a media content analysis, we show that individual exposure to negative economic news enhances internal economic efficacy, a sense of competence in and understanding of the economy. This is good news as internal economic efficacy may facilitate economic evaluations and decision making. The study reveals that changes in economic efficacy are driven by news attention aroused by the negative tone. However, not all individuals are susceptible to such media effects. Higher interest in economic news lowers the impact of negativity on attention arousal. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/12434 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z