Lógicas y orientaciones del activismo digital. Del uso y la apropiación al desarrollo de herramientas autónomas

José Candón-Mena; David Montero-Sánchez

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2023-1891

Authors

José Candón-Mena University of Seville https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-4987
David Montero-Sánchez University of Seville https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2937-0438

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2023-1891

Keywords:

social movements, technopolitic, ciberactivism, technological sovereignty, informational capital

Abstract

Introduction: The text departs from a theoretical review in order to distinguish two specific dynamics involving the use of commercial tools by activists on the one hand, and the development of autonomous technologies driven by social movements themselves on the other. Objectives: The aim of this article is to define various logics of digital activism by engaging critically with several scholar contributions that, generally through a historical analysis, allow us to establish theoretical distinctions and recognize differentiated logics of action when it comes to determining how social movements actually use digital technology. In the paper, critical engagement with the literature is examined against our empirical findings to challenge pre-existing assumptions, as well as evolutionary approaches sometimes observed in some of these contributions. The text also makes a point of transcending closed historical stages. Conclusions: The article’s conclusions point towards a multidimensionality of factors (pragmatic-utilitarian, strategic-tactical and ideological/identity-related) regulating the ways in which social movement leverage technology.

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Author Biographies

José Candón-Mena, University of Seville

University of Seville Professor of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the University of Seville. PI of the R&D Project "Sustainability of the Third Communication Sector. Design and application of indicators" (SOScom) [PID2020-113011RB-I00] funded by the State Program for R+D+i Oriented to the Challenges of Society 2020 of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change (COMPOLITICAS). Founding member of the Research Network on Community, Alternative and Participatory Communication (RICCAP). Researches on communication, journalism, community media, social advertising, NGOs, social movements, technopolitics, digital democracy and deliberative democracy.

jcandon@us.es

Índice H: 17

Orcid ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-4987

Scopus ID: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=55579684800

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=AnhdNt0AAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose-Candon-Mena

Academia.edu: https://us.academia.edu/JoseCandonMena

David Montero-Sánchez, University of Seville

University of Seville David Montero Sánchez holds a PhD from the University of Bath (UK) and is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Journalism I at the University of Seville. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Group for Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change (COMPOLITICAS, https://compoliticas.org/), where he coordinates the research line in Visual Studies and Image Criticism. He has published the monograph Thinking Images. The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema (Peter Lang, 2012), and is the author of several articles on matters of visual culture, film essay, political audiovisual and participatory cinema in international publications including Media, Culture and Society (Sage), Studies in French Cinema (Intellect) and Global Media and Communication (Sage), among others.

davidmontero@us.es

Índice H: 8

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2937-0438

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=1G-cId0AAAAJ&hl=es

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Sanchez-55

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