Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups

Abstract: To understand the relevance of the new media in the formation of the indignation nets, this text, of exploratory stamp, debates the digital activism in contemporary Brazil. Methodologically, we will make a discussion on cyberactivism, digital media, and national pressure groups starting from two examples, Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement) and Vem pra Rua (Come to The Street movement) - these are key movements in the organisation of the big anti-government mobilisation that took place in 2015-2016 in Brazil. The theme is important because it embraces current and future challenges of the digital activism, once that this field faced significant changes in the last decades, with the development of interactive media and the technological convergence

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Journal of Politics in Latin America ; 11 (2019) 1 ; 109-130

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2019
• Creator: Cavalcanti, Davi Barboza ; Zuccolotto, Vinicius Rodrigues ; Bringel, Elder Paes Barreto ; Costa, Fábio Regueira Jardelino da ; Oliveira, Tassiana Moura de

Further information

• DOI: 10.1177/1866802X19840455
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021091508523706918610
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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