174 | nº 31, pp. 167-185 | doxa.comunicación
July-December of 2020
The Social Communication legislation in the subnational space. The case of Mexico
ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978
In that sense, the 32 laws of the subnational articles in electoral matter destiny a big part of its content to regulate the access of the political parties to media. They also recognize and punish the personal damage for publications on media. Another example is that most educational laws contain the rights of the child audience, and the infinity of laws proposes media campaigns on its subjects. However, this analysis is focused only on the specific laws in which the main subject of regulation is any aspect of social communication. There are 144 current regional laws of this type in Mexico; they are distributed around the 32 entities of the republic, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Communication aspects on the subnational entities of Mexico Legislations
Type of legislation by regulation subject
f
%
Protection of Personal Information in Possession of Private Entities Laws
33
22.92
Transparency and Access to Public Government Information Laws
32
22.22
Official state newspapers Laws
21
14.58
Protection of journalists and human rights activists Laws
12
8.33
Digital, electronic or open government Laws
8
5.56
Audio-visual or film industries support Laws
8
5.56
Civil rights of the journalist exercise Laws
7
4.86
Public state media Laws
6
4.17
State journalism prizes Laws
3
2.08
Child audiences protection Laws
2
1.39
Exterior advertising installation regulation Laws
2
1.39
Social right journalists protection Laws
2
1.39
Institutional public broadcasting regulation Laws
2
1.39
Use of free software and open-source regulation Laws
2
1.39
For the existence of the digital city law
1
0.69
Regulation of the high price to the access of Internet law
1
0.69
Editorial fund Law
1
0.69
Printing Law
1
0.69
TOTAL
144
100
Note. The average distribution of the number of laws per federal entity is represented in the following way: M=4.5; Mo=5; DE=1.32
Source: Compiled by the author
