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This paper engages with the meanings and practices of digital sovereignty that four social collectives are building and enacting in Latin America. Through a qualitative methodological approach based on semi-structured interviews with founding members of the selected collectives, we sought to know how they conceive and carry out activities of digital sovereignty on a daily basis. Among the research findings, the identification of five articulating axes in the work of these organizations stands out, namely: 1) conception / proposal of particular digital sovereignty; 2.) ways to achieve/achieve digital sovereignty; 3.) criticism and resignification in the ways of making digital sovereignty; 4.) agents involved and 5.) relationship with other groups and/ or organizations interested in digital sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the journal Las Naves 1, manifiestos cinematográficos contemporáneos (2013) to see the way Posmodernism, as a philosophical and aesthetic movement, affects contemporary cinema manifestos. We start from considering the manifesto as a proposal of a "big narrative", a programmatical and political statement, a statement of principle. To assert an identity involves the construction of an "enemy": this can clearly be seen in the cinema manifestos from the sixties and seventies, though it cannot be seen in its contemporary counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to provide a basis for rethinking the approach of development in Latin America through the changes linked to the crisis of industrial capitalism and the ongoing transition toward a "cognitive capitalism". The analysis is organised in three parts. The first one sketches the structural crisis of the industrialist paradigm inherited from development theories during the period 1950-1980. The second part stresses the constraints and challenges implied by the new shape of international division of labour based on cognitive principles and on the strengthening of intellectual property rights' systems. Finally, the third part tries to identify certain features of a post-industrial development strategy for Latin American countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It would be unlikely to decolonize the communicational practices and lore anchored in the coloniality of power of the current knowledge politics and in the traditional authorize voices that indicate what, who, how, when and where to problematize Communication. This paper suggests the necessity of its "liberation" -held by the epistemological state of the field-based on some other ways of being-knowing in the edge of a decolonized knowledge, gestated not only by the mere de-westernization in the intellectual production, intervention and understanding of communication processes, but also through epistemic disobedience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]