Post on 09-Feb-2017
social media and revolutions
adrià rodríguez
WHY IT’S KICKING OFF EVERYWHERE!?
HOW. New ways of affection and comunication, Internet, social media, social networks.WHO. Highly-educated generation, hyperconected youths, impoverishment, broken social ladder, structural crisis labour market (high unemployment rates, precarity and flexibility as the norm), debt (household and/or public debt), neoliberal reforms, attack to the commons.WHAT. Institutional crisis, crisis of representation, nation-state crisis, governance crisis, corruption, constitutional crisis, lack of social and human rights, welfare crisis.
The networked character of modern society makes country-specific unrest
predictions pointless. There is, in reality, one political entity that matters. Right now it is more
unequal than it’s ever been; its core economic model is destroyed; the consent of its citizens
to be governed is eroded. It is the world - Paul Mason
Number of world protests by main grievance/demand 2006-2013
The logics of contagion and the protests worldwide from 2010 to 2013
Social media callConcrete eventOthers (social unrest)
#15o 2011 . World protest in more than 1000 cities
States are opaque for citizens and citizens are transparent for states. This is surveillance.States have to be transparent for citi-zens and citizens have to be opaque for states. This is democracy. - Jeremie Zimmerman
Autonomous organizations: Democracia Real Ya!
MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION
Toque a Bankia(2012)
We can hope for a transformation of mass-media power that will overcome contemporary subjectivity, and for the
beginning of a post-media era of collective-individual reappropriation and
an interactive use of machines of information, communication, intelligence,
art and culture. -Felix Guattari
NEW PUBLIC SPHERE
The whole world tracking #occupywallstreet upheaval on 17.09.2011
Front page coverage of the Occupy movement in the USA
Front page coverage of the 15m movement in Spain
front pages newspapers 11-13 May 2011 front pages newspapers 16-18 May 2011
Front page coverage of the 15m movement in Spain
The Streisand Effect
1. Twitterevolution? or Technopolitics paradigm
RETHINKING ASSUMPTIONS
Internet use grows a 20% during the emergence of the #15m and the occupation of the squares all around Spain in 2011. This increase is mainly on the use of Facebook and Twitter.
Technopolitics is not clicktivism nor cyberactivism.
Technopolitics is not just the mere use of the Internet and social networks, but a new paradigm of political organization, affection, communication and struggling through and within the net.
Technopolitics is not about Internet itself but about the capacity of Internet to increase the political potentialities of the hiperconected multitudes, to increase capacities of cooperation and affection between brains/bodies through the Internet tools.
Technopolitics paradigm is not homogenic, there are differences between countries and regions: differences on digital divide, internet cultures, and digital alphabetization.
New political paradigm
#15m 2011 network(cooperation and interaction)
spanish political parties network(competitivity and identity)
2. Social movements? or Network-movements, Network-system
Network-system its a complex network with a multiplicity of nodes which are articulated organically and in a ever changing way.
Network-movements go beyond the sociological cathegory of social movements. They are articulated through the network and reach and involve a much more larger number of people than the ‘former’ social movements.
network-system #15m 2011
network-system #15m 2012
3. Horizontailty? Leaderlessness? or Transversality, distributed/temporary/coreographical leadership, borderless organization
Social media use is not characterized by absolute horizontality, but is rather accompanied by the rise of new forms of soft leadership. The term “choreo-graphy” is a metaphor to render the idea that at the time of social media protest activity is not as spontaneous and disorganised as it might appear at first sight. Rather, by using social media, acting as Facebook admins or popular movement tweeps, contemporary digital activists come to act as chore-graphers or soft leaders of sorts - Paolo Gerbaudo
transversality and distributed/temporary/coreographical leadership
4. Fiction vs. Real? or Geoterritory-Cyberterritory, Simbiosis Multilayer revolt, Augmented-event
Not everyone in the world is in the Internet, but everyone in the Internet is in the world- @Ciudadadano_zero0
Swarming: voces25s(2012)
STATE#Control #Surveillance
MARKET#Selling data from prosumers,
#Selling brands and products to prosumers
PrivacyEncriptionFree culture, free infromation and free softwareP2PAutonomous platforms and media, but.... >
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WE/ GLOBAL
CITIZENS/ 99%
#Democracy#Rights
DEMOCRACY FOR/FROM THE NETWORKS
It’s very hard for a repressive government to shut down a
system that most people are using for perfectly innocuous needs
- Ethan Zuckerman on the Cute Cat Theory
Images, videos and data from
> Datanalysis research group IN3 (UOC University)> “Kairós. The reinvention of the democracy in the Mediterranean” documentary> Outliers Collective
Special thanks to
Javier ToretPaolo GerbaudoHector HuergaLali SandiumengePablo AragónLilia WeslatyBernardo GutiérrezJuan LinaresNuria VilaRuben Martínez December 2015