| dc.description.abstract | In the last few years, some progressive countries in Latin America have made changes to laws that regulate media, with a particular emphasis on audiovisual media that make use of radio broadcast ing space. A key feature shared by these new media
laws is the criteria for reallocating radio and TV
concessions, with a compromise of assigning a third
of these frequencies to non-governmental organizations,
referred to as community media. Moreover,
in several cases, as in Ecuador, another third of the
frecuencias are reserved for public institutions. These
changes would allow, in the medium term, for community
and public groups to own most of the range
of audiovisual media frequencies in several countries
in the region. In theory, we would have spaces that
had been previously hoarded by the private sector,
now in the hands of groups outside of the strictly
commercial rationality used for their own benefit. In
this context, we ask, what possibilities are there for a
relaunch of communication proposals oriented, in the
general sense, to “educommunication” (educational
communication)? We will attempt to provide answers
by using Ecuador as a reference for both challenges,
learned successes, and limitations under the new Law
of Communication. | |
