Internet and social media: technological device or digital locus for political mobilization?

The diversity and range of economic, cultural and political phenomena in individuals and groups in our daily life highlights the urgency of understanding communication from a great variety of codes, given its polysemic nature. Considering that appropriation of the internet for political purposes has...

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Autores: Almeida, Verbena Córdula, Barbosa de Souza Piantavinha, Tainan, Bispo dos Santos, Vilmária
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2015
País:Ecuador
Recursos:Revista CHASQUI
Repositório:Revista CHASQUI
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.ciespal.org:article/2303
Acesso em linha:https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/2303
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:cyber culture; political mobilizations; real-virtual
ciencias sociales
cibercultura; movilización política; virtual-real
comunicación social
cibercultura; mobilização política; virtual-real
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Resumo:The diversity and range of economic, cultural and political phenomena in individuals and groups in our daily life highlights the urgency of understanding communication from a great variety of codes, given its polysemic nature. Considering that appropriation of the internet for political purposes has spread to a global scale, this work is the result of an investigation that examined the practice of cyber communication taking as an object of study the Brazilian movement Fiscal Grapiúna (FG), which was created as a consequence of concerned citizens that were worried about the political course of the city of Itabuna, in Brazil, after the electoral process that took place in 2012. The aim was to detect if the group managed -and if so, to what extent- to politically mobilize their followers through and from the specific connection between the virtual and the real life.