Censorship and Communication

By Miguel D'Addario

Censorship is an imposition executed by people who exercise power over others. 
It will depend on many factors to make Censorship happen. The level of culture, education, democratic awareness, participatory freedom achieved in each society, even to the 
the wealth of each country can be a determining factor, or on the contrary, the poverty of each nation. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Dec 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071577820

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Censorship

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Communication

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Miguel D’Addario

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2020

Author

Miguel D'Addario is a writer, coach and professor. Italian.

He has published artistic books, poetry, stories, existentialist philosophy, academics, and educational technicians with different publishers. His books have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Greek.

Degree in Journalism, Master in Social Education and PhD in Social Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has developed his experience in various fields of teaching, from Vocational Training to University level, both in Latin America and in Europe. His books are found in different study centers and libraries around the world, such as the San Pablo University of Peru, the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, the National University of San Marcos (Peru), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Kalamazoo Public Library - Michigan, University of the Sacred Heart of Puerto Rico, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma University of San Gregorio of Ecuador, University of Valencia, National Library of Spain, National Library of Argentina, University of Texas, University of Toronto, University of Deusto, University of Illinois, University of Kansas, Libraries of the Community of Madrid, Castilla y León, Andalusia, and the Basque Country, British National Library, Harvard University, Library of Congress of the United States. PhD and essayist, he has received awards and mentions from Writers' Associations, Cultural Centers, Universities, and related venues. Likewise, as Speaker, Lecturer and Researcher, in Universities, educational centers, public and private. Author of books on philosophy, ontology and metaphysics. Author of Self-help and Coaching books.

His books are distributed in the five Continents, are regularly consulted in Libraries around the world, and are registered in international catalogs, ISBNs and bibliographic databases. They are translated into multiple languages and can be found in international bookstores, both in paper format and in electronic version.

More works by the author: https://bit.ly/2SUC6rc

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Preface to the edition

The Censorship is an imposition executed by people that use power towards others. It will depend on a lot of factors to the Censorship can happen. The cultural level, education, democratic conscience, participative freedom achieved in each society, even to the wealth of each country can be a determining factor, or on the contrary, the poverty of each nation.

The personal element in the censors, also will accomplish a fundamental role, both in the psychological sense like the emotional sense, on a way that someone, for example, that has been abused by his father, or repress or disqualify in their childhood, can have certain resentment towards the people who are free and work for it. Either way, the Censorship exist even in 2015 and has different masks to archive the prohibition, or annulation of the messages that try to say something more than the official speech, or the current leader. For that reason, it has to be considered an act of Censorship the one that stop in any form or way the communication to be excuse, mutilated or simply censured from its emission, in their journey or at the end of the communicative process.

For that reason, the Censorship can happen in a lot of ways, for example, in the increase of the newsprint paper price. Forcing a language in each region so that those who have not studied it are push to the idiomatic marginalization. With discriminatory job advertisement. Blocking the internet connection. Reducing the official publicity of certain media. Discrediting the opposition media. Attacking journalist. Canceling established contracts, etc. And the raw and direct like any dictatorship, accusing the enemies of the people and closing the media. In this volume its analyzed the forms of censorship from different countries, why does the censorship happens even in the era of communication, how a dictatorship rule and what is the actual aftertaste of this actions, and why does the expression of liberty is not possible in whole world.

The editor

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

William Shakespeare

Index

Communication

Censorship

Etymology

History of Censorship

One American’s opinion

Censorship prohibits

Media Censorship

Censorship in the Argentinean dictatorship

How censorship works

Critical Analysis

Bases

Types of censorship

Influence of censorship on media and people

Censorship against art and culture

Books and censorship

Musical censorship

Official censorship documents

ANNEX 1

"CENSORSHIP AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

ON THE INTERNET"

Introduction to internet censorship

Censorship in the world

ANNEX 2

UNIQUE THINKING AND CENSORSHIP

Beginning

The Dumb Box

Bibliography

Communication

Communication is the process where information can be transmitted to one entity to another, changing the state of knowledge of the receiving entity.

The sender entity is considered unique, even if at the same time may exist different sender entities transmitting the same information or message. On the other hand, there may be more than one receiving entity.

In the unilateral communication process the sending entity does not alter their state of knowledge, unlike the receiving entities.

The processes of communication are measured interactions by signs between at least two agents that share the same set of signs and have some semiotic rules in common.

The elements that take part in communication to make the process happen, are:

Message

Sender

Receiver

Channel

Code

Context

One of the bases on which every society is based on is communication, that is to say, the process where information is transmitted: the alarm of a vehicle, a barking dog, a crying baby, the sound of a doorbell, the speech of an orator, etc.

Those are some of the few acts of communication that happen on the everyday basis and that, often, are unnoticed.

However, is indispensable in any society, since their objective is to stablish contact that allows the relation between individuals (objects, animals, people, etc.).

But not always that we communicate pretend to transmit information, sometimes is with other purpose. Here the main objectives to follow act of communication act:

Transmission of information. The people need the exchange of thoughts, ideas, or opinions to give an answer to their affective, intellectual, or practical needs.

Trying to influence other. Communication acts exist (calls to the interlocutor, begs, petitions, orders, prohibitions) with which we try to modify the behavior or the attitude of other: Kid, calm down. Please be on time. Give me your hand. Don’t cross.

Manifestation of own state or thoughts. In these cases, the people express to transmit feelings, states, or reflections: I’m sad, you did good, So painful! Hopefully is true. 

Execution of acts. Some communication acts are made in the moment that the statement is happening: the formation of the words becomes the act itself. So, an oath is made by saying: Yes, I do.

The act of communication is a process where a transmission of information is made. In every communicative act is necessary to take place a series of elements, called also factors or elements of communication.

The process that moves any communication act starts when a sender transmit a message to a receiver with whom it shares a code. The transmission is made through a physical support or channel  and address to an extralinguistic reality, the reference.

The message is the information made that is transmitted to one point to another. Sometimes the concept of message is mistaken with the information itself and with the reference, so they should be specified.

Imagine an act of communication very simple: two friends that are on the street: one of them along with his girlfriend, which he introduces saying:

-  My girlfriend, Elisa.

Well, we do not have to mistake the reference or the reality element about the given information (the girl named Elisa), the message or the series of linguistic signs, organized through certain rules, that the