Abstract
As questões da diversidade cultural e da pluralidade das vozes no atual ambiente digital global, estão a levantar novos problemas, para além dos já identificados no contexto de migração do campo dos média clássicos para a galáxia da Internet. Se, com os media tradicionais, imperou uma lógica de fechamento sobre o “mesmo”, com o digital acreditou-se, num primeiro momento, na “apoteose do sonho da diversidade” (Curran, 2008). Mas a verdade é que a eliminação dos antigos filtros de seleção e distribuição da informação não parece estar a acontecer. O novo “gatekeeping” contorna a própria intervenção humana, sendo que os atuais sistemas de disseminação da informação têm base algorítmica e intervenção de inteligência artificial e de “robots”, enviesando, desde logo, o acesso às matérias noticiosas, e reduzindo o espaço da diversidade cultural ou censurando mesmo a pluralidade das vozes e das expressões culturais.
The issues of cultural diversity and the plurality of voices in the current digital and global environment are raising new challenges beyond those already identified in the context of migration from classical media to the internet galaxy. If, with traditional media, a closing logic under “the same” prevailed, with digital media we started to believe in the “apotheosis of the dream of diversity” (Curran, 2008). But the truth is that the elimination of the old filters of information and distribution does not seem to be happening. New “gatekeeping” surrounds human intervention, with current information dissemination systems having an algorithmic basis and artificial intelligence, biasing access to news and reducing space for cultural diversity or even censuring the plurality of voices and cultural expressions.
The issues of cultural diversity and the plurality of voices in the current digital and global environment are raising new challenges beyond those already identified in the context of migration from classical media to the internet galaxy. If, with traditional media, a closing logic under “the same” prevailed, with digital media we started to believe in the “apotheosis of the dream of diversity” (Curran, 2008). But the truth is that the elimination of the old filters of information and distribution does not seem to be happening. New “gatekeeping” surrounds human intervention, with current information dissemination systems having an algorithmic basis and artificial intelligence, biasing access to news and reducing space for cultural diversity or even censuring the plurality of voices and cultural expressions.
Translated title of the contribution | Media, diversity and globalisation in the digital age |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Article number | 7 |
Pages (from-to) | 95-108 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2017 |
Keywords
- Media
- Cultura
- Diversidade
- Globalização
- Digital