Abstract

COPLEY, Florencia. The path of ICT: from the New World Order to the Big Data Empire. ARCIC [online]. 2018, vol.7, n.15, pp. 45-66. ISSN 2411-9970.

This paper analyzes the impact of the digital world revolution based in the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for social control and surveillance, in the hands of large communication companies. Trough Big Data, a concept of storing of huge amount of data on the Internet, this companies are able to process the information produced by a millions of netizens all over the world. Although in 1980 the MacBride Report promoted by Unesco proposed advancing towards a New World Information and Communication Order, more fair and democratic, the geopolitical changes of the last decades and the development of the ICT, reoriented the debate related to the concept of "Information Society", taking the discussion to technical levels. Today, the new reality of the digital age raises the need of resume the debate and review the direction of the ICT.

Keywords : MacBride; Society of Information; ICT; Internet; Big Data.

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