Mobilization as Communication. A Latin American contribution to the study of social movements

Sartoretto, Paola

doi:10.25267/commons.2016.v5.i2.05

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“…As Treré and Gerbaudo (2015) point out, in big parts of digital activism literature those accounts are limited due to (1) the dominance of resource mobilisation theory, which centres on material resources and organisational structures; (2) a dominant focus on technology and media institutions; (3) the hegemony of quantitative methods in the social sciences. Given the remaining ethnocentric nature of the field we also find little sensitivity towards contextual accounts of activist groups operating across vastly diverging political, cultural and socio-economic spectra (Escobar, 1995; Sartoretto, 2016).…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Same counts for acknowledging contextuality of technologies chosen and the oftentimes-crucial role of combining various means. Those limitations can be linked to a ‘lack of interdisciplinary dialogue and research between the areas of social movements studies and that of media and communications’ (Sartoretto, 2016: 95). A reductionist focus that fails to account for social processes might be rooted in the negligence of tracing a conceptual distinction between the media and communication as human relation in social movement scholarship.…”

Section: Accounting For Power In Social Movement Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite promising turns towards media practice theorisation (Couldry, 2004), social movement studies provide little analytical tools to address the collective practices of and around technology co-construction (Mattoni, 2013; Sartoretto, 2016), accounting for human interactions, social dynamics and expressions (Martin-Barbero, 1999).…”

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Accounting for power in transnational civic tech activism: A communication-based analytical framework for media practice

Wissenbach

2019

International Communication Gazette

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This article examines the need for an explicit conceptualisation of communication in the field of social movement research in order to grasp power dynamics within transnational civic tech activism communities. Civic tech activism is an instance of organised collective action that acts on institutionally regulated governance processes through the crafting of technologies and tactics supporting citizens’ direct political participation. The article suggests a theoretical lens that introduces the de-westernisation discourse of communication scholarship to the theorising of media as practice in social movement research. This allows, I argue, revealing power asymmetries within civic tech activist communities, with respect to decision-making involving technology. Emphasising the need to account for these exclusionary dynamics, the analytical lens here suggested will introduce the concept of ‘acting within’ transnational civic tech activism.

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Accounting for power in transnational civic tech activism: A communication-based analytical framework for media practice

Wissenbach

2019

International Communication Gazette

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“…On a similar note, a growing body of scholarship has observed how the parallel growth of digital media platforms and social movement mobilization have enabled interconnections across spatial boundaries (Downing, 2008;Drinot, 2011;De Jong et al, 2005;Silverstone, 2013). Scholars are in this vein analyzing the dynamics of mobilization in digital media platforms (Bennett & Segerberg, 2013), on-line communication as a constitutive aspect of mobilization (Sartoretto, 2016), its potential for social movement formation (Mattoni & Treré, 2014), its function as a motor of social change (Milan, 2013), and the interplay with direct action on the streets (Gerbaudo, 2012). Studies have documented promising potential in the use of digital media platforms (Leong et al, 2019), how digital media platforms add to a personalization of politics (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012), and how social movements show ambivalence towards their use (Custódio & Sartoretto, 2020;Sartoretto, 2015).…”

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The temporal nexus of collective memory mediation: print and digital media in Brazil’s Landless Movement 1984-2019

Lundström

Sartoretto

2021

Social Movement Studies

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Social movement scholarship has increasingly shown how continuous mobilization depends on collective memory construction. This article sets out to study this formative activity in a changing media landscape. It asks how activists navigate the temporal nexus of collective memory mediation. The empirical focus is on Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), a well-established organization that since the early 1980s has communicated its collective memories on several media platforms. This article also demonstrates, through a corpus analysis of MST's internal newspaper, Jornal Sem Terra , and its Facebook page (2014-2019), how collective memories of rural violence serve various functions in these different media. The empirical study verifies the formative implication of rural violence for Brazil's landless movement, but also unveils notable differences between the newspaper and Facebook in this regard. Whereas Jornal Sem Terra employed a horizontal collective memory construction through contemporary documentation of ongoing and upcoming events, the Facebook posts primarily engaged in the vertical extraction of already established memories. In other words, the print media produced a narrative around collective memories of rural violence, and these memories were re-produced through digital media platforms. These empirical findings implicate that renewed methodologies are needed in future studies of social movements.

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“…Following a Latin American tradition (Sartoretto, 2016), the Brazilian civil society has historically combined media education with sociopolitical education to promote civic knowledge among young people of impoverished backgrounds. These pedagogical initiatives are key elements in processes of communication for social change (CFSC)⁵ in the country.…”

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El Compromiso De Los Jóvenes Con Bajos Ingresos Con La Comunicación Para El Cambio Social: Un Enfoque Etnográfico

Custódio¹

2017

COMMONS

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Este artículo presenta un enfoque etnográfico sobre la forma en que los brasileños con bajos ingresos en las zonas urbanas empobrecidas se han involucrado en el periodismo comunitario y el activismo mediático. Explorando materiales empíricos recogidos durante un proceso de investigación de siete años (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) ResumenThis article presents an ethnographic approach to how low-income Brazilians of impoverished urban areas have engaged in community journalism and media activism. Exploring empirical materials collected during a seven-year research process (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016), the article has two main objectives. One is to analyze how low-income youth reflect on their own processes of engagement in communication for social change (CFSC). Another objective is to demonstrate how ethnography can provide in-depth analyses of trajectories and initiatives in CFSC. The article primarily focuses on retrospective accounts of young adults who had participated in media-educational projects by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and subsequently became active agents of change in, through and about media. The analysis of these accounts indicates how the participation in NGO projects characterize actions for self-development. It also demonstrates how interactions among participants-not necessarily anticipated by NGOs -are crucial for low-income youth to engage in activist media and journalism in peripheral Rio de Janeiro. The article ends with a reflection about how ethnography is a useful method to add in-depth qualitative layers to the evaluation of CFSC initiatives.

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Mobilization as Communication. A Latin American contribution to the study of social movements

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Accounting for power in transnational civic tech activism: A communication-based analytical framework for media practice

Accounting for power in transnational civic tech activism: A communication-based analytical framework for media practice

The temporal nexus of collective memory mediation: print and digital media in Brazil’s Landless Movement 1984-2019

El Compromiso De Los Jóvenes Con Bajos Ingresos Con La Comunicación Para El Cambio Social: Un Enfoque Etnográfico

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