Colonialismo y comunicación. La política informativa de la Compañía británica en las Minas de Riotinto, Huelva (1913-1920)

Abstract

In 1913, Riotinto was a part of Spain where the law, social conventions and the institutions were controlled by the British company that was exploiting the mines. It not only controlled the means of production, but also instituted culture and exercised its hegemony as if the area was just one more colony of the British Empire. This article argues the need for studying that hegemony in cultural and communicative terms. To this end, it approaches the information policy of the Company by considering its defensive aspect –censure, repression– and its offensive aspect –intervention in the press, as well as its discourse, which was based on discrediting radical trade unionism and on the pedagogy of fear.