Estructura institucional e intoxicación informativa: polarización política y derechos digitales en la República de Ecuador.

Efrén Guerrero Salgado

doi:10.5209/rev_TK.2015.v12.n3.50185

Institutional structure and informative poisoning: digital rights and political polarization in the Republic of Ecuador

Efrén Guerrero Salgado Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_TK.2015.v12.n3.50185

Keywords: Collective action, human rights, surveillance, public order, conflictivity.

Abstract

The aim of this text is to demonstrate how collective action is limited by actors with enough political capital to take advantage socially accepted discourse to their advantage. It is intended to show that the scene of the tools of Web 2.0, there is a risk that the action of interest groups may be limited by legitimized politically speeches, which results in a loss of citizen control of political power and a probable violation of human rights.

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Efrén Guerrero Salgado, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Abogado (PUCE). Máster en Protección de Derechos Humanos (Universidad de Alcalá). Máster Oficial en Gobierno y Administración Pública (Instituto Ortega y Gasset, Madrid). Profesor agregado en la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Doctorando en Gobierno y Administración Pública (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Diplomático en Servicio Pasivo.Líneas de especialización: Calidad de la Democracia, Conflictividad Social, Interacciones Política Pública - Derechos Humanos.

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2015-12-04

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Guerrero Salgado E. (2015). Institutional structure and informative poisoning: digital rights and political polarization in the Republic of Ecuador. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 12(3), 527-548. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_TK.2015.v12.n3.50185

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2015): Collective action challenges in the post-Snowden era: readings from Latin America

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