Abstract

Many scholars have noted the lack of interdisciplinary dialogue and research between the areas of social movements studies and that of media and communications. While social movement studies fail t ...

Highlights

  • This paper seeks to problematize and discuss ethnocentric notions in the theorization of social movements and to highlight the intersection between mobilization and communication from the perspective of Latin American scholarship

  • From I argue that Latin American media and communication scholarship has since long intersected with the study of social movement and can make a contribution in this field

  • The discussions and theories developed by Latin American scholars can help the analysis of contemporary social movements even in other areas, because, as I have argued her that is in its essence a communicative process that is augmented and modified by continuing technological development

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Introduction

This paper seeks to problematize and discuss ethnocentric notions in the theorization of social movements and to highlight the intersection between mobilization and communication from the perspective of Latin American scholarship. Santos argues that social sciences need to move beyond Northern epistemologies, and acknowledge other ways of knowing, understanding and being in the world. Against this backdrop, I suggest conceptual tools that could be useful for explaining social movement. From I argue that Latin American media and communication scholarship has since long intersected with the study of social movement and can make a contribution in this field. I propose that one of the main Latin American contributions to the study of social movements is the analysis and conceptualization of the communicative aspects of mobilization. According to Downing the potential for interdisciplinary work between these two fields is not fully developed because social movements studies treat communication as information transmission and media as mere material channels for the transmission of information

Social movement studies – a brief outline
The approach to communication in the dominant Social Movements theories
The communicative approach to social mobilization
The intersection between mobilization and communication – a
Concluding remarks
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