Cyberculture and Network Outrage: New Social Movements in the Internet Age

Abstract

The essay reflects the indignation on the networks, relating the actions of social actors and their activist repertoires, and the use of technological innovations in media and mass communication at the end of the 20th century. XX and beginning of the XXI. It reflects on the new reality of social practices arising from this transformation, in new collective forms of organization and communication provided by the advent of the Internet. It proposes to address the role of media and communication technologies in the current stage of capitalism and movements contesting State action. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of cyberspace and the networks that inhabit it, new sociability environments and the construction of political mobilization alternatives. Data were collected on the web (virtual ethnography), therefore, a literature review with qualitative analysis. It brings Castells (1999; 2000; 2010), Lévy (1999), Harvey (2012; 2014), Alonso (2009), Gohn (2003; 2007), Boltanski and Chiapello (2009), as a theoretical framework. The internet is a two-way street – democratic and disputed territory, where the intense narratives produced on it add gains to social movements.