21st-century censorship

• Autores: Philip Bennett, Moisés Naím
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 1, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Two beliefs safely inhabit the canon of contemporary thinking about journalism: that the Internet is the most powerful force disrupting the news media, and that the Internet and the communication and information tools it spawned, like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are shifting power from governments to civil society and to individual bloggers, netizens, or "citizen journalists." It is hard to disagree with these two beliefs. Yet they obscure evidence that governments are having as much success as the Internet in disrupting independent media and determining the information that reaches society. Moreover, in many poor countries or in those with autocratic regimes, government actions are more important than the Internet in defining how information is produced and consumed, and by whom. Illustrating this point is a curious fact: Censorship is flourishing in the information age. Here, Bennett and Naim examines the 21st-century censorship and how governments around the world are using stealthy new strategies to control the media