De mitos y sublimes digitales: movimientos sociales y tecnologías de la comunicación desde una perspectiva histórica

• Autores: Emiliano Treré, Alejandro Barranquero
• Localización: Redes.com : revista de estudios para el desarrollo social de la Comunicación, ISSN 1696-2079, Nº. 8, 2013, págs. 27-47
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper aims at interpreting the relationship between social movements and communica - tion technologies, from the perspective of a set of critical frameworks which, in recent years, have warned of the processes of sublimation and creation of myths linked to the birth of each �new� technology. Within this context, civic movements are observed both as spaces of reproduction of enthusiastic discourses on ICTs, at the service of diverse power spheres -corporations, governments, media, etc.-, as well as of experimentation and technological appropriation, in which, through daily practices, a more complex and demystified perspec - tive of communication technologies is produced. We propose a chronological analysis across three case studies, based in different contexts, which aim at illustrating the premature ap - proximations to the role of communication technologies in social uprisings: the Zapatista informational guerrilla, the �smart mobs� in the Philippines, the �Anomalous Wave� and the �5 Stars Movement� in the Italian context. We conclude underlining the need to move towards the collective construction of knowledge through synergies between academia and social movements as a way to question techno-euphoria as well as to avoid the mistakes of the pats.