Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Raúl; PENA, Patricia  and  SAEZ, Chiara. Crisis and Social Change in Chile (2010-2013): The Place of Social Movements and Digital Activists. anagramas rumbos sentidos comun. [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.24, pp.71-93. ISSN 1692-2522.

This article is an analysis of natural disasters (and future reconstruction process) of the 27F of 2010 (earthquake and seaquake), the cycle of students protest from 2011, and several social-environmental conflicts that have occurred in several regions of southern and northern Chile since 2010 to date from the point of view of media, social movements, and the role of digital activists in this process. From systematization of several own sources and secondary sources, a review of the behavior/use of conventional public media, community media, and social web before this social mobilization cycle has been made trying to respond to the following question: why does this cycle - characterized by the expressive use of the Internet and the social web as public neo-sphere - not question - as part of its demands- the economic and ideological problem of concentration of media system in Chile in a period in which relevant debates about this topic are simultaneously generated? Just as the case of the Digital TV law or the community radio law. In our opinion, in order to explain this apparent contradiction, answers should be found out of a media-associated approach which establishes at least three factors: citizen participation, communicational citizenship, and techno-utopian thinking.

Keywords : Social movements; communication; citizenship; digital activism; public sphere.

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