Emergent digital activism: The generational/technological connection

In this article three interacting categories for the understanding of emergent digital activism are reviewed: tools that enable the participation, people as social agents, and contexts of social or political participation. Since in many of the most recent cases of digital activism the main actors have been young activists, the paper attempts to present how some of these new cohorts make use of technology mediated tools for social interaction, crowd engagement and participation, through a networked and apparently leaderless social and political activism. By analyzing the interaction between the existing tools and the generational characteristics of the social actors in particular situations we show the role that digital systems and new social media play in certain situations. Con el fin de comprender el activismo digital, en este articulo se exploran tres categorias que se entrelazan: las herramientas que facilitan los procesos de participacion, las personas como agentes sociales que intervienen y los contextos de participacion social y politica. Dado que en los casos mas recientes de activismo digital los principales actores pertenecen a cohortes juveniles, el articulo intenta presentar algunas ideas de como esos activistas hacen uso de las herramientas tecnologicas para la participacion social, la ccoperacion y la inteligencia de las multitudes, mediante un activismo en red aparentemente sin liderazgos notorios. Se hace el analisis de la interaccion entre las herramientas tecnologicas y las caracteristicas generacionales en tres casos particulares para ilustrar el papel que los sistemas digitales y los nuevo smedios sociales juegan en ciertas situaciones.

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