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Signo y Pensamiento

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ANDRADE CASTRO, JESÚS ALBERTO. Discourse and Communicationin Venezuela: from Determinism toTechnological Nationalism. Signo pensam. [online]. 2010, vol.29, n.57, pp.342-352. ISSN 0120-4823.

This paper examines the development of information technologies in Venezuela and how the discursive element legitimizes its own use; to do so, three types of discourse are identified (technological determinism, technological democracy, and technological nationalism.) Based on the fundamental assumption that hegemony is an ideological process in a permanent quest for power, it uses discourse to legitimize itself. We examine how, in Venezuela, concurrently with other state policies that attempt the construction of a communication model based on information technologies, the technical discourse "pervades" environments where the ict's can legitimize their existence in order to establish an ideological hegemony in society.

Keywords : discourse; information technologies; power; hegemony; globalization; Information technology -- Venezuela; Discourse Analysis; Hegemony.

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