تكنولوجيا الاتصال الحديثة و حق الشعوب في اختيار النظام الثقافي الوطني

Abstract EN

If the structures, relations, ideas, principles and rules of the international post-war situation are still effective, then the methods and mechanisms used to cross the borders of weak countries, particularly the third world countries, on the other hand have evolved in favor of modern mechanisms, and are supported by new communication and information technologies, such as satellite television, given their ability to convey cross-border cultural content, the culture industry and networks of communication and information, which set up the structures of the information superhighways, the latter consequently paving the way for the emergence of the Society of Information, or Postindustrial Society, in differentiation of two previous ages (eras) or types: The Agricultural age and the Industrial age.

A society where the global production of IT tools and softwares has contributed to the emergence of two associated processes: The commercial transgression of national borders and the electronic transgression of national borders.

For this reason, some are trying to concretize the belief that the world has become a global market, where a wide range of informative, communication and cultural messages circulate freely across borders and all around the globe, in order to impose one uniform culture, where distances between different human cultures narrow and references, beliefs, affiliations collide and allegiances change, one could assume the disappearance of the national cultural structures of States.

The world is characterized by the effects of globalization and powerful impact on the values and cultural systems of countries, either by the creation of new values, or by the modification and reorientation of existing values, as one has grown able to receive informative messages and cultural contents, with text, sound and image, he grows more sensitive towards them and influenced by them, without authorities of the receiving countries having the chance to prevent the impact, even less so to control these messages and contents, these latter being used by the developed countries to create favorable conditions allowing them to impose their culture and their liberal system with all its elements, from values to languages, cultural and educational system on the nations, to make it a global system, as though an obligatory rule of International Law for all to follow, and that at the expense of the nations’ cultural sovereignty and cultural identity as well as their right to cultural self-determination and free choice of the national cultural system; and their right to cultural diversity enshrined in many international instruments.

This study is an attempt to approach modern communication technologies’ relation the national cultural system and the right of the nations to choose it freely, to gain knowledge on the theoretical and legal aspects of this relation in terms of these technologies’ effects and impacts on the nations’ right to freely choose their national cultural system in all its elements, such as the right to free choice of the political and economic system in accordance with the rules of the International Law.