Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignads

Junto a John Postill hemos estado durante meses trabajando en este capítulo del libro The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media donde hemos desarrollado a partir de las fases del 15M que se caracterizan en la investigación de Tecnopolítica: la potencia de las multitudes conectadas desarrollada por Javier Toret junto a Datanalysis15M, una relación del papel de la tecnología movil, con las redes y los movimientos alrededor del 15M.

Aquí teneis el resumen del capítulo:

During the 2011 wave of protests millions of citizens around the globe employed a vast range of digital media to demand greater democratic freedoms and social justice. Although mobile phones were widely used in all these protests, their significance remains unclear. This chapter draws from both qualitative and quantitative research to shed light on the recent uses of mobile technologies for social protest, with Spain’s Indignados (or 15M) movement as the case study. The chapter argues for the importance of processual analyses of the new protests that situate the uniqueness of each mobile technology and ‘mobile ensemble’ within a particular moment in the collective biography of a movement. This approach reveals the importance of smartphones as new articulators of online spaces and occupied physical spaces, especially via Twitter and live streaming.

Podéis econtrar el capítulo completo aquí.