Likes, memes and militancy: cyberactivism on the Brazilian internet
This paper aims to investigate the influence of the communications revolution provoked by the Internet on the political sphere, focusing on the concept of “cyberactivism”. It seeks to highlight the particular characteristics of activism practiced in cyberspace. To this end, individual motivations fo...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repository: | Conversas & Controvérsias |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/35328 |
| Online Access: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/conversasecontroversias/article/view/35328 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Cyberactivism Cyber-event. Internet Agency Ethnographic method. ciberativismo ciberacontecimento internet agência |
| Summary: | This paper aims to investigate the influence of the communications revolution provoked by the Internet on the political sphere, focusing on the concept of “cyberactivism”. It seeks to highlight the particular characteristics of activism practiced in cyberspace. To this end, individual motivations for political action in the cyberspace are of interest, using the notion of agency as a capacity for action mediated by social situations, which can be classified according to a continuum of intentionality representing the different degrees of consciousness existent in different types of agency. Another axis of analysis is the hypothesis that the “non-human materials” are active, exerting agency over human actors in the cyberspace. This analysis will be produced through observation and typification of different practices that can be considered cyberactivist, focusing mainly on Facebook groups, Twitter, WhatsApp, among others. |
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