The curious absence of cybernationalism in Latin America: Lessons for the study of digital sovereignty and governance

Abstract

In this article, we are interested in examining the factors that drive cybernationalism and digital governance in media policies. As scholars with a long-standing interest in media industries and policies in Latin America, we start with a simple empirical observation: the curious absence of debates and strong efforts to regulate digital media in the region grounded on nationalistic arguments. It is not exaggerated to affirm that for the past two decades, the region has largely adopted a laissez-faire, deregulatory approach on fundamental issues about the structure and functioning of the Internet, including the performance of global digital platforms, content traffic, data ownership and access, and speech. We believe that understanding the decades-long transition from nationalistic media regulations to pragmatism in digital policies in Latin America yields valuable insights for theorizing the conditions that foster (and discourage) nationalism and sovereignty in digital policies.

Economía digital y desarrollo empresarial.

“…La prueba de hipótesis confirma los postulados que la economía digital contribuye favorablemente al desarrollo empresarial, siendo un punto importante, incorporar las TIC como elemento clave para potenciar las ventas y gestión de la empresa, requiriéndose promover en el talento humano, el conocimiento, manejo efectivo, de las mismas para acceder a ser competitivos en un mercado exigente (Buenrostro-Mercado & Hernández-Eguiarte, 2019), siendo que la gestión de Es necesario acotar, que se requieren más estudios sobre el tema con la intención de generalizar como positivo el uso de lo digital en las empresas del Perú, y sobre todo, cuando en Latinoamérica existen antecedentes que indican que la región ha adoptado en gran medida un enfoque desregulador y de laissez-faire sobre cuestiones fundamentales sobre la estructura y el funcionamiento de Internet, incluido el desempeño de las plataformas digitales globales, el tráfico de contenido y la propiedad de los datos. y acceso y habla (Becerra & Waisbord, 2021).…”

Platform nations

“…It is important to note that not all states are equally protective of the creative content and data in the digital domain, nor equally able to exert control over the digital realm, even when they manifestly want to do so. For instance, Becerra and Waisbord (2021, pp. 67–68) argue that Latin America ‘has largely stayed away from the kind of cybernationalism identified with China, Iran, and Russia, as well as the European Union’, despite its long history of protectionist media policies driven by nationalist arguments.…”