NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY

Abstract

The importance of new technologies in mass comunications cannot be ignored in the new Brazilian Constitution. This study proposes to analyse some of the challenges posed by these new technologies to the construction of a democratic system of social communication and to suggest some topics and legislative measures which should merit attention in the new constitution in order to ensure, at the legal level, the democratization of mass communication.
Having examined the un-democratic aspects of the present system of communication in Brazil, the author then analyses the needs of a democratic system and, in conclusion, proposes some themes which should be contemplated in a new democratic model for communication legislation.