The original accumulation of information: information as a source of wealth

Abstract

This paper, develops specific issues about the events that originates in the context of the advent of a new mode of production in communications, particularly the processes related to the digitization of important spheres people’s an and societies and  the changes that are evident in the audienciation systems, their communication processes and their relationship with technology. It seeks to expose the thesis where it is explained that the history of mediatization would reveal to us how information, conceived as a sign, has experienced a process towards the privatization and expropriation of human communication, with modern means of communication, a phase that would be suffering important ruptures with the advent of the digital information and communications system.