Being networks: the digital formism of net-activist movements

Authors

  • Massimo Di Felice USP/ECA/PPGCOM/ATOPOS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v7i2p49-71

Keywords:

Internet activism, digital communication, digital networks, social action, ecology

Abstract

For the last few years online social movements have spread through several latitudes creating important theoretical challenges for several areas of knowledge, concerning the nature of such actions, given the connective and technological quality of its acts as well as concerning the creation of a new kind of locality, simultaneously informative and material expression of an unprecedented dwelling condition that brings humans together, informative circuits and territorialities. Finally, the necessity that imposes rethinking the composition of human collectives beyond the perspective of modern sociology, since it presents itself as expression of a reticular interactive ecology that is no longer political, that is, anthropomorphic and ideologically oriented.

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Author Biography

  • Massimo Di Felice, USP/ECA/PPGCOM/ATOPOS
    PhD in Communication Science at Universidade de São Paulo with a post-doctorate in sociology at Universidade Paris Descartes V, Sorbonne.  Professor at Universidade de São Paulo, teaching graduation  and post-grad at the Escola de Comunicaçoes e Artes (ECA/USP).  Founder of the ATOPOS Research Center (ECA/USP)

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Published

2013-12-06

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Dossier

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How to Cite

Di Felice, M. (2013). Being networks: the digital formism of net-activist movements. MATRIZes, 7(2), 49-71. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v7i2p49-71