Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America (original) (raw)
Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America. Critical Analysis and Current Challenges
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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 emancipation practices of new social movements. Additionally, this volume presents some Latin American practices and experiences that are autonomously and by using self-management–creating other identities and social spaces on the margins of and against the neoliberal system through the use of digital technology. This book will be of great interest to scholars of media and social movements studies as well as of contemporary politics.
Networks, Movements & Technopolitics in Latin America: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges
This publication aims to: firstly, present a critical reflection on the different scenarios and challenges that are appearing in Latin America regarding the power relationships that are produced based on new digital technologies and the social processes of which they are part; secondly, to establish a dialogue with researchers in other places who have critically analysed the use and application of technology and digital culture for the active participation of citizenship in decision-making, exchange and social solidarity processes, such as the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement in the USA, protests against the economic crisis in Europe and protests for a broader democratic arena in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, among others.
The concept of technopolitics has been increasingly employed to interpret the contemporary uses of communication technologies by social movements and civil society organizations. This chapter tackles the historical and theoretical roots of the notion, by critically examining contributions from different disciplines, regions and strands of literature. First, the chapter outlines the use of technopolitics within technology transfer and scientific innovation, and charts its adoption in studies regarding media and the political sphere. Then, it explores its rediscovery and application at the intersection between the appropriations of Spanish activists and academics, and scrutinizes its extension to Latin America. Next, it examines five key potentialities of the concept, as well as its connections with other recent theorizations, especially derived from Anglo-Saxon scholarship. The chapter concludes by proposing further dialogue between Northern and Southern research communities, as a way to generate more nuanced understandings of everyday activist practices, action research, and socio-political change.
2018
The concept of technopolitics has been increasingly employed to interpret the contemporary uses of communication technologies by social movements and civil society organizations. This chapter tackles the historical and theoretical roots of the notion, by critically examining contributions from different disciplines, regions and strands of literature. First, the chapter outlines the use of technopolitics within technology transfer and scientific innovation, and charts its adoption in studies regarding media and the political sphere. Then, it explores its rediscovery and application at the intersection between the appropriations of Spanish activists and academics, and scrutinizes its extension to Latin America. Next, it examines five key potentialities of the concept, as well as its connections with other recent theorizations, especially derived from Anglo-Saxon scholarship. The chapter concludes by proposing further dialogue between Northern and Southern research communities, as a way to generate more nuanced understandings of everyday activist practices, action research, and socio-political change.
In this conversation, Bernardo Gutiérrez examines the multifaceted roles played by digital media technologies in the processes of resistance and emancipation of several Latin American countries, with a particular focus on Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. Relying on his extensive experience as a journalist and activist, and on the preliminary findings of his new project funded by Oxfam, an international confederation to find solutions to poverty, an injustice around the world, he argues that the similarities among these new mobilizations have to be looked for in their technopolitical architecture and in the forms of organization-action they assume, rather than in their demands, shared ideologies, and grievances.
A Latin American Perspective For The Political Economy of Communications
Javnost - The Public, 2004
In the past few decades, there has been an accelerated and transversal change in the techno-information mechanisms of production and reproduction in modern society. This change belies a new cultural ecosystem whose configuration and organisational logic is clearly unstable and random. This has affected the cultural codes, the methods of configuration, representation of space and time, the habits and forms of interaction and public knowledge, the models of regulation and control of the networks and infrastructures of data transmission.
Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century
2021
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JAVNOST-LJUBLJANA-, 2004
In the past few decades, there has been an accelerated and transversal change in the techno-information mechanisms of production and reproduction in modern society. This change belies a new cultural ecosystem whose configuration and organisational logic is clearly unstable and random. This has affected the cultural codes, the methods of configuration, representation of space and time, the habits and forms of interaction and public knowledge, the models of regulation and control of the networks and infrastructures of data transmission. The very roots of the relationship between capital, work, and knowledge have been altered. The unfolding of the digital revolution and the accelerated expansion of the media and industries of information and culture have not only served to alter the map of social communications systems, but also led to a profound transformation in the organisational system of public life. The authors emphasise the main intellectual predecessors that can contribute to a diagnosis and alternative transformation of the universe of communications and thus establish a basis for a new critical viewpoint of the peripheral, dependent countries of Latin America and the international division of intellectual work in the context of computerisation.
in Latin America: Case studies
2008
Information technologies (IT) have a substantively differential effect in developed countries than in less developed countries. This is illustrated through case studies of public and private institutions from Venezuela, Brazil, and Panama. The case method is used because it provides a richer understanding of the phenomenon and because there are factors structurally linked to the lesser development that both hinder a quantitative analysis and obstruct a proper managerial analysis that would permit a similar profiting from the technology. An analysis of the commonalities in the cases shows how the theoretical concepts of pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic dimension of information can be used to conceptualize why less developed countries cannot benefit from the use of IT in the same way as developed countries do. Thus, we conclude that due to the pragmatic fragility present in less developed countries, advanced IT will not reduce but increase the digital divide.