Articulo_8_EN_Doxa_31_The_Social_Communication_legislation

In this fourth set, the uniformity from the federal guidelines in regulation subjects and the creation of laws is observed. The following shows the own characteristics of the subnational regions; they reflect their concerns and the particular solutions that legal instruments offer.

Regional legislations of the electronic government keep attention to accountability, the transactional use of digital instruments to speed bureaucratic procedures, and permanent access to public documents. These instruments are diverse, and its terms too: for some is electronic government, for some other digital government or even open government; but the difference is not innocent. Depending on the commitment to society, the term is accepted. The electronic government term seems to define a more transactional and limited approach, and the open government offers a more integrate and open to public scrutiny.

Laws for supporting the audiovisual and film industries are in the following set. The subnational entities have little participation in film production. For this reason, there are eight laws related to the topic; there is no agreement: some of these legal instruments refer to the audiovisual works; others regulate the procedures to access to the filming location. One of the laws administers the tax exemption of the cinema and theatre room exhibition. The analysis of this data states that depending on the possibilities of each entity; minimal norms are presented to participate in the audiovisual industries.

There are two sets related to each other: the civil rights on the journalist exercise laws and the protection laws of the social rights of the journalists. The first ones have seven instruments that represent four journalists´ rights: the professional secret, awareness clause, access to information and events, and copyright of core literature and journalistic work. The second corresponds just to two entities, and it is composed of both laws that protect the welfare of the journalists and their families; health, education, training, and professional training, recreation, and culture rights. There are no similar federal laws in Mexico; the subnational entities show their competence in legal subjects that remedies the lack of federal legislation.

According to the decreasing order observed in Table 1, specific topics of a few subnational entities are a group in the following sets. These correspond to the following subjects: legal certainly of the public state media, regulations to award journalistic works, outside urban and road advertising, institutional communication regulations of the state government, among others. Even when the topic of digital rights protection is appearing, it is notorious. In two entities, the use of free software and open-source; is guaranteed. In a third, cybercafé users are secured, from avoiding high bills. In other more, the existence of the digital city is declared; it is relevant to the lack of concern in two of the rest of the entities to defend the child audiences of adult contents in digital, electronic, and printed media.

On the other hand, one of the most antique laws of the federal field is the Printing Offenses Law, current since 1917 with its respective reforms, with a historical tradition of a century on its regulations. It highlights that just one entity in the subnational space is concerned with generating its Printing Law.