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

Authors

  • Verbena Córdula Almeida Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia
  • Tainan Barbosa de Souza Piantavinha Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
  • Vilmária Bispo dos Santos Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i128.2303

Keywords:

cyber culture, political mobilizations, real-virtual

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

  • Verbena Córdula Almeida, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia
    Doctora en Historia y Comunicación en el Mundo Contemporáneo por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Profesora Adjunta del Departamento de Letras y Artes de la Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brasil. Autora de los libros Prensa y Propaganda en la Emancipación Hispanoamericana (Universidad de León, España, 2011); Da pesquisa para a Sociedade. Reflexões sobre comunicação científica e tecnológica.
  • Tainan Barbosa de Souza Piantavinha, Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
    Becaria del Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, CNPq, Brasil.
  • Vilmária Bispo dos Santos, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia
    Becaria del programa de Iniciación Científica de la Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz UESC, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brasil.

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Published

15-11-2015

Issue

No. 128 (2015): Movimientos sociales y propagación de ideas políticas en la sociedad en red

Section

Monográfico

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