El progreso con peajes: la sociedad de la información. Acceso y convergencia a partir del proyecto europeoMartín AlfredoBecerraauthorThe thesis object is to study the different levels of social and communicative access with the Information Society as a framework. Thus, the thesis empathises the european policies of the Information Society project, and the thesis work contrasts this policies with socioeconomic indicators, as well as the main directives of Latin American countries in the same field. The thesis focuses on the concentration and convergence processes localised at the information and communication industries, due to the critical impact of these two processes in the economic structure of contemporaneous societies. The conceptual framework of the thesis is linked to the political economy of communications studies. The thesis also presents the content analysis of the main documents produced by the European Commission and the OECD. BA. Use and impact of information.BC. Information in society.BD. Information society.BF. Information policy2001Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain);Department of Journalism and Communication SciencesThesis