A perfect storm for media reform: Activist strategies and socio-political circumstances behind telecommunication reform in Mexico
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 439
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- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.5422/fordham/9780823271641.003.0010
- Book title
- Strategies for media reform: International perspectives
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- ISBN
- 9780823271641
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The Mexican Association for the Right to Information (AMEDI), the most prominent media reform group in the country, has, for the last decade conducted a permanent campaign for the democratisation of media in Mexico. During this time, AMEDI has developed a number of effective strategies, which include: constant advocacy, by organising conferences and symposiums, providing relevant information through its internet page and public communiques, and cementing an eclectic but unified front against media power; permanent monitoring, by identifying in National Congress all MPs with close personal or professional connections to big media and evaluating the performance of media regulators and key civil servants; strategic litigation, by fighting in court commercial transactions carried out by media corporations that could further entrench media concentration and contesting in the Supreme Court of Justice the constitutionality of particular pieces of legislation; and research and policy-making exercises, by publishing academic books and drafting media law to be submitted for legislative consideration. Alongside an advantageous political environment and the pressure asserted by a dynamic student movement, these strategies have been responsible for the 2013 Telecommunication Reforms and the transformation of the legal framework regulating media in Mexico.
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