Intervenciones de la red trasnacional de activismo feminista en la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información (2003 – 2005) : una lectura feminista sobre las políticas globales de comunicación
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2023
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La Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información (CMSI), organizada por la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (UIT) entre 2003 y 2005, se erigió como una instancia fundamental en la difusión del ideal normativo de la sociedad de la información. En pleno auge del ciclo de protesta altermundista, la Cumbre propuso ampliar la base de participación hacia actores no estatales, en lo que se denominó modelo de múltiples partes interesadas. Para la red trasnacional de activismo feminista se presentó como la oportunidad de disputar el sentido del proyecto neoliberal de la sociedad de la información de las clases dominantes y, además, significó la posibilidad de impulsar las demandas feministas sobre comunicación y TIC sobre las que venían trabajando hacía, por lo menos, una década. “Intervenciones de la red trasnacional de activismo feminista en la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información (2003 – 2005). Una lectura feminista sobre las políticas globales de comunicación”, estudia las maneras en las que un sector del movimiento feminista se organizó para participar de la CMSI. Nuestra hipótesis inicial establecía que la apertura formal a la participación de la sociedad civil en la construcción de consensos globales alrededor de la noción de la sociedad de la información no había logrado incorporar una perspectiva de género que, a pesar de los esfuerzos delas integrantes de la red trasnacional de activismo feminista, tuvo una limitada representación en los documentos finales de la Cumbre, fruto de los abordajes tecnocéntrico y liberal, propios de la época...
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) between 2003 and 2005, was a milestone in the outreach of the normative ideal of the Information Society. At the peak of the alter-globalization protest cycle, WSIS institutionalized the multi-stakeholder model by opening its participation structure to nonstate actors. For the transnational feminist network, this was an opportunity to challenge the nature of the neoliberal Information Society. It also meant the chance to push forward the demands on communication and ICTs that they had been working on for at least a decade. "Interventions of the transnational feminist network at the World Summit on the Information Society (2003 - 2005). A feminist approach to global communication policies" explores the ways in which a sector of the feminist movement mobilized to participate in WSIS. Our initial hypothesis was that the formal openness to civil society participation in building a global consensus around the Information Society had failed to incorporate a gender perspective which, despite the efforts of the transnational feminist network, had limited representation in the final documents as a result of the technocentric and liberal approaches of the time. The Information Society was not the result of the inevitable evolution of a unique possible model of technological development but a core aspect of the expansion and consolidation of neoliberal globalization. Moreover, although it was based on economic foundations, it was politically grounded on the doctrine of the Free Flow of Information. This paradigm gained full institutional endorsement after the United States left UNESCO following the Great Communication Debate...
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) between 2003 and 2005, was a milestone in the outreach of the normative ideal of the Information Society. At the peak of the alter-globalization protest cycle, WSIS institutionalized the multi-stakeholder model by opening its participation structure to nonstate actors. For the transnational feminist network, this was an opportunity to challenge the nature of the neoliberal Information Society. It also meant the chance to push forward the demands on communication and ICTs that they had been working on for at least a decade. "Interventions of the transnational feminist network at the World Summit on the Information Society (2003 - 2005). A feminist approach to global communication policies" explores the ways in which a sector of the feminist movement mobilized to participate in WSIS. Our initial hypothesis was that the formal openness to civil society participation in building a global consensus around the Information Society had failed to incorporate a gender perspective which, despite the efforts of the transnational feminist network, had limited representation in the final documents as a result of the technocentric and liberal approaches of the time. The Information Society was not the result of the inevitable evolution of a unique possible model of technological development but a core aspect of the expansion and consolidation of neoliberal globalization. Moreover, although it was based on economic foundations, it was politically grounded on the doctrine of the Free Flow of Information. This paradigm gained full institutional endorsement after the United States left UNESCO following the Great Communication Debate...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, leída el 15-11-2022