Digital transfer. Public and social television in Mexico

Abstract

The present article summons a research on the transit from analogic to digital of public television in Mexico.  As in 2014 the law was reformed, a new concept arise: social use (uso social); so we comprise the new denomination and the channels included. The figures reveal a considerable growth of channels, both commercial and public; anyhow, this is not the only change.  As digital brings modifications in time and space, in the mode of communication and in the relations between individuals, public television has a shift in its organization and distribution in the country. The growth in number equals the percentage seen before digitalization and the new law, so is to say public television, including social, remains way behind commercial.  As digitalization has more dimensions than technology, we consider its impact on social behavior, in time and space and in the development on new habits of communication.