Abstract

TORRICO VILLANUEVA, Erick R. Emancipatory Thinking and Communication in Latín America. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2014, n.17, pp.9-15. ISSN 2306-8671.

As an academic field of study, Communication was developed since 1920 with a North American main approach based on culture diffusion and the production of mass effects. Although very soon criticism about it arose in Europe and Latin America, it was during sixties and seventies, the "rebellious decades", when the Latin American emancipatory thinking -heir of a large critical tradition- protested against that model and decided to fight for achieving independence. In that context, contemporary to the Pedagogy of Liberation, the Liberation Theology, the Dependence Theory and the Philosophy of Liberation, emerged the Communicology of Liberation. This final option, proposed by Luis Ramiro Beltrán Salmón, a Bolivian expert, was guided to liberate both, communication knowledge and practice, and currently symbolizes an intellectual vein which is necessary to explore.

Keywords : Communication; Latin American critical thinking; Luis Ramiro Beltrán.

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