Abstract
This chapter offers an historical account of a specific area of transnational activism: those initiatives and interventions that have focused, over the past four decades, on issues pertaining to communication processes in changing societies, expectations raised by technological developments, challenges deriving from media concentration, and commercialization or unequal opportunities to communicate. Information technologies, media assets and communication capacity have indeed become broadly recognized as strategic resources for meeting political and economic goals. At the same time, concerns about access to information, collective cultural development, individual privacy and communication divides have fostered individuals and groups to take action to protect basic rights, maintain spaces of free expression and develop socially oriented uses of information technologies.KeywordsCivil SocietySocial MobilizationWorld PoliticsPolitical OpportunityGlobal Civil SocietyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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