FDER http://hdl.handle.net/10226/19 2026-04-17T21:49:02Z 2026-04-17T21:49:02Z Villa Viera, María Augusta http://hdl.handle.net/10226/2518 2024-04-15T18:19:48Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despenalización del aborto en Ecuador: en búsqueda del tesoro perdido Villa Viera, María Augusta En esta tesis analizo las características de la penalización del aborto en Ecuador con el objetivo de aportar argumentos jurídicos a favor de su despenalización total. Para ello, recorro los argumentos contenidos en los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, el derecho penal mínimo, el principio de proporcionalidad, la laicidad y el aborto desde un enfoque de género que permiten replantear la penalización del aborto. Este trabajo también es la búsqueda del reconocimiento de derechos de las mujeres que se encuentran perdidos entre razones moralistas, machistas y religiosas.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro http://hdl.handle.net/10226/2473 2022-09-29T23:26:30Z 2022-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Digital Rigths Movement in Latin America Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro This study presents a brief and partial history of the Latin American digital rights movement. It seeks to tell its story, as situated within a broader frame of normative commitments regarding Internet freedom threatened by regulation. This phenomenon---that we call "regulatory threats"---is hypothesized (H1) as the main explanation for the rise of the movement in Latin America, something that is both consistent with theory and the history of the movement elsewhere. The paper also introduces the concept of "regulatory displacement" to describe both the challenging nature of Internet governance and the fact that the power of regulating the Internet lies---to a relevant extent---outside the narrow scope of nation states. We consider this phenomenon to be particularly acute in Latin America, and we pose that this must have affected the way the Latin American movement developed (H2). We test both hypotheses against two datasets, one formed by coded interviews with ten activists conducted towards the end of 2021 and a database of projects and publications built from the websites of seven Latin American organizations, covering the period 2000-2021. We produce a descriptive account based on traditional concerns and concepts in social movements research, such as political opportunities, access to resources, organizational modes, repertoires of action, and so on. We consider that our data strongly supports the first hypothesis and partially supports the second one, although further research is needed. Some of the challenges identified within the movement in terms of influencing the political process are consistent with "regulatory displacement", a fact that shapes the way the movement has developed until now and will likely affect its future.

2022-09-07T00:00:00Z Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro http://hdl.handle.net/10226/2390 2022-08-02T18:42:41Z 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z

Supporting Media Viability in the Americas: Towards Sustainable Journalism Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro If journalism is a fundamental gear of democracy, then democracy is somewhat in danger. While the Internet has offered unparalleled access to information to the world, journalism as an industry is in crisis. In many countries around the world, but specially in Latin America, the possibility of making a living out of the desire to tell stories is increasingly shrinking. Media outlets suffer from the migration of private and public advertising to the Internet, a process that has empowered several intermediary companies that have almost monopolized the advertising industry. While these powerful companies have developed programs directed at supporting journalism, the challenge remains. Media viability in a changing world is still a question without a definitive answer. We propose to address it looking at the problem from a Latin American standpoint, one that considers not only the challenge produced by technological change but also the underlying conditions that make the problem a specially serious one in the region.

2022-06-01T00:00:00Z Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro http://hdl.handle.net/10226/2389 2022-08-02T18:37:44Z 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z

Viabilidad mediática en América Latina: hacia un periodismo sustentable Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro Si el periodismo es un engranaje fundamental de la democracia, entonces la democracia está en cierto peligro. Si bien Internet ha ofrecido al mundo un acceso incomparable a la información, el periodismo como industria está en crisis. En muchos países del mundo, pero especialmente en América Latina, la posibilidad de ganarse la vida contando historias se reduce cada vez más. Los medios de comunicación sufren la migración de la publicidad privada y pública a Internet, proceso que ha empoderado a varias empresas intermediarias que casi han monopolizado la industria publicitaria. Si bien estas corporaciones han desarrollado programas dirigidos a apoyar al periodismo, el desafío permanece. La viabilidad de los medios en un mundo cambiante sigue siendo una cuestión sin una respuesta definitiva. Proponemos abordar el problema desde una perspectiva latinoamericana, que considere no solo el desafío que produce el cambio tecnológico, sino también las condiciones de fondo que hacen que el problema sea especialmente grave en la región.

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