The relationship between social movements, ICT and social change according to the scientific community

The rapid spread of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) has changed the way social movements use Public Communication and will do so again in the future. This paper provides an analysis of the academic literature related to the influence of the ICT transformations on social movemen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Casas Mas, Belén
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/19140
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19140
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:316
316.42
316.4
New technologies
social reproduction
social transformation
political movements
NGO
Public Communication.
Sociología
Cambio social
Movimientos sociales
63 Sociología
6307 Cambio y desarrollo Social
5906.06 Conflictos Sociales
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Sumario:The rapid spread of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) has changed the way social movements use Public Communication and will do so again in the future. This paper provides an analysis of the academic literature related to the influence of the ICT transformations on social movements and its consequences for social consent. The study is based on one of the dimensions of the R&D: “Social Production of Communication and Social Reproduction in the Globalization Era”. This is done through a content analysis of the representations offered by scientific institutions that mediate the social reproduction of meaning. Within the theoretical framework of the Social Production of Communication, the implemented analysis includes a corpus of 180 future scenarios from scientific and technical literature in this field. The findings suggest that the ICTs promote agreement between various social groups, but this might simultaneously trigger conflicts with other institutions or governments. Available in portuguese: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98111