Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America Critical Analysis and Current Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Caballero, Francisco Sierra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gravante, Tommaso (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
• Subjects: Ethnology-Latin America.; Communication.; Digital media.; Culture.; Technology.; Latin American Culture.; Media and Communication.; Digital/New Media.; Culture and Technology.

This edited collection presents original and compelling research about contemporary experiences of Latin American movements and politics in several countries. The book proposes a theoretical framework that conceptualises different mediation processes that emerge between cyberdemocracy and the emanci...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Digital media practices and social movements. A theoretical framework from Latin America; Francisco Sierra & Tommaso Gravante.- Section I: Technopolitics: a theoretical framework
• 2. Technopolitics and social movements: directions, dilemmas and synergies; Emiliano Treré & Alejandro Barranquero.- 3. eDemocracy: Ideal vs Real, exclusion vs inclusion; Jan Servaes & Andrea Ricci.- 4. Technopolitics & Big Data: The Rise of Proactive Data Activism; Stefania Milan & Miren Gutierrez.- 5.   To know and not to know. The missing link between technologies and power in Latin America; Jorge Alejandro Gonzalez.- Section II: Dissident technopolitics practices in Latin America: critical analysis and current challenges.- 6. Activism in Contemporary Argentina: Between the Streets and the Digital Media; Silvia Lagos.- 7. The Brazilian protest wave and digital media: from t he "Jornadas de Junho" in 2013 to the process of impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016; Nina Santos.- 8. Social Networks, cyberdemocracy and social conflict in Colombia; Elias Said-Hung & David Luquetta Cediel.-9. Where is Amarildo? Personalized action frames, digital networks, and the movement against police brutality in Rio de Janeiro's favelas; Stuart Davis
• 10.Communication in Movement and Techno-political Media Networks in Mexico; César Augusto Rodríguez Cano
• 11.#CompartirNoEsDelito: Creating counter-hegemonic spaces online for alternative production and dissemination of scientific knowledge in Colombia; Jean-Marie Chenou & Rodulfo Armando Castiblanco Carrasco
• 12. #OcupaEscola: media activism and the movement for public education in Brazil; Ana Lúcia Nunes de Sousa & Marcela Canavarro.