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New Media and Peace Activism: the Case of “One Million Voices against FARC”

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dc.creator Rosato, Valeria
dc.date 2014-01-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-22T20:01:04Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-22T20:01:04Z
dc.identifier https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/cienciapol/article/view/50159
dc.identifier.uri http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/102735
dc.description Recently, the spread of social media has undoubtedly contributed to further increasing the potential of civil society mobilizations. The ease of access to new communication technologies enhances the po- tential of civic movements, but it is still necessary to focus on the relationship between the creation and stability of digital ties and the sustainability of collective action. This article aims to examine the first and largest global civil mobilization promoted through a So- cial Network Site: the massive march on February 4th 2008 against the FARC, the Colombian guerrilla group. The objective is to analyze, several years after the fact, the characteristics and effects of this mo- bilization, which originated on the web to become a huge global march. Through the analysis of the literature it presents some reflections on the nature of these new forms of online activism, their potential and limits. Specifically, the case in question comprises a form of collective action that, while displaying impressive speed and the capacity to mobilize many people thanks to the new medium of communication, at the same time reveals its dependence on external actors with the ability to manipulate it for their own ends as well as its weakness in generating a thorough prospect for social change that can truly impact on Columbian society in the long run. In conclusion the present work shows that, in a complex environment characterized by high levels of conflict, the resources provided by ‘revolutionary’ new media are not sufficient to achieve concrete social change because the web, like a mirror, simply brings the same contradictions found in real space into a virtual space. Therefore, we suggest looking beyond the emotional impact produced by new media and more carefully analyzing the real dynamics of conflicts and the inevitable ‘imbrication’ of the digital and non-digital. es-ES
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dc.language spa
dc.publisher Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas y Sociales - Departamento de Ciencias Políticas es-ES
dc.relation https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/cienciapol/article/view/50159/61617
dc.source Ciencia Política; Vol. 9 No. 17 (2014): Arte y Política; 217-237 en-US
dc.source Ciencia Política; Vol. 9 Núm. 17 (2014): Arte y Política; 217-237 es-ES
dc.source Ciencia Política; v. 9 n. 17 (2014): Arte y Política; 217-237 pt-BR
dc.source 2389-7481
dc.source 1909-230X
dc.subject activism es-ES
dc.subject social media es-ES
dc.subject Colombia es-ES
dc.subject armed conflict es-ES
dc.subject peace. es-ES
dc.subject Análisis político es-ES
dc.subject Ciencias sociales es-ES
dc.title New Media and Peace Activism: the Case of “One Million Voices against FARC” en-US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type peer-reviewed article en-US
dc.type Artículo evaluado por pares es-ES


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