The decentralized social networking systems towards mobilizing actions of citizenship and solidarity against cancer

The goal of the present study is mapping the nature of possible contributions of participatory online platforms in citizen actions that may contribute in the fight against cancer and its associated consequences. These platforms are usually associated with entertainment: in that sense, we intent to test their validity in other domains such as health, as well as contribute to an expanded perception of their potential by their users. The research is based on the analysis of online solidarity networks, namely the ones residing on Facebook, Orkut and the blogosphere, that citizens have been gradually resorting to. The research is also based on the development of newer and more efficient solutions that provide the individual (directly or indirectly affected by issues of oncology) with the means to overcome feelings of impotence and fatality. In this article, we aim at summarizing the processes of usage of these decentralized, freer participatory platforms by citizens and institutions, while attempting to unravel existing hype and stigma; we also provide a first survey of the importance and the role of institutions in this kind of endeavor; lastly, we present a prototype, developed in the context of the present study, that is specifically dedicated to addressing oncology through social media. This prototype is already available online at www.talkingaboutcancer.org, however, still under development and testing. The main objective of this platform is to allow every citizen to freely build their network of contacts and information, according to their own individual and/ or collective needs and desires.

Participatory Online Platforms and the Construction of Citizen’s Autonomy in Health Issues

The goal of the present study is mapping the nature of possible contributions of participatory online platforms in citizen actions that may contribute in the fight against cancer and its associated consequences. The research is based on the analysis of online solidarity networks, namely the ones residing on Facebook and the blogosphere, that citizens have been gradually resorting to. The research is also based on the development of newer and more efficient solutions that provide the individual (directly or indirectly affected by issues of oncology) with the means to overcome feelings of impotence and fatality. In this chapter, the authors summarize the processes of usage of these decentralized, freer participatory platforms by citizens and institutions, while attempting to unravel existing hype and stigma; the authors also provide a first survey of the importance and the role of institutions in this kind of endeavor; lastly, they present a prototype, developed in the context of the present study that is specifically dedicated to addressing oncology through social media.

Privacidad en internet

Análisis de la privacidad en internet, y, en particular, en las redes sociales y la blogosfera. Se parte del concepto jurídico de privacidad y se analizan los riesgos crecientes que la acosan.

Vladimir ha dit... Identitat, xarxes socials i ciberperdiodisme en els blocs. Una construcció de la intersubjectivitat dins la nova Internet

DEA (tesina) que analitza quin és el paper que juguen els blocs dintre de la Web 2.0, articulant-se al voltant de tres eixos: la creació de la identitat virtual, les xarxes socials generades a través de la blocosfera i les implicacions econòmiques i socials que se'n deriven. La pregunta central és de quina manera, si ho fan, els blocs contribueixen a modificar fòrmules de lectura i participació tant d'àmbit personal com públic en les agendes informatives. I si aquesta participació genera canvis significatius a nivell econòmic i psicosocial.

La blogosphère et la fonction filtre : le cas de la campagne électorale de 2008 à São Paulo

Dans ce travail, j’étudie les relations entre la blogosphère politique dans la ville de São Paulo, au Brésil, et l’ensemble de l’écologie médiatique dans laquelle celle-ci est insérée. En établissant un dialogue avec les théories qui posent la dissémination des blogues comme le moment de répartition des moyens de production et de démocratisation de parole, je propose que la blogosphère doit plutôt être envisagée comme une instance de filtrage des produits des médias de masse. J’emprunte le concept de « dispositif » à Michel Foucault et à Giorgio Agamben, pour définir les médias du monde contemporain selon les termes d’un dispositif médiatique. J’emprunte aussi les concepts de « two-step flow of communications » et de « leader d’opinion » à Paul F. Lazarsfeld et Elihu Katz pour localiser la blogosphère dans l’ensemble de notre espace médiatique. Je défends également l’idée que les blogueurs exercent aujourd’hui une fonction semblable à celle des leaders d’opinion que décrivent Katz et Lazarsfeld – ce que je nomme la fonction-filtre de la blogosphère - et que ces blogueurs se situent dans la couche intermédiaire du flux d’informations dans les démocraties occidentales, c'est-à-dire celle qui se trouve entre les médias de masse et les récepteurs. Pour conduire ma recherche, j’ai réalisé une ethnographie virtuelle auprès des blogueurs de la ville de São Paulo, au Brésil, pendant la période de la campagne électorale de 2008 à la mairie. Ensuite, j’ai soumis l’ensemble de leur production discursive à une analyse sociolinguistique. Et je conclus que plutôt qu’étant le fruit d’une révolution, l’écologie médiatique contemporaine reprend - en les diversifiant et en les étendant - des processus que l’on ne pensait propres qu’aux dynamiques des médias de masse.

Towards Web 3.0

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Movimientos sociales su construcción narrativa desde los nuevos medios: los Indignados bogotanos en Twitter

Se analiza la relación entre movimientos sociales y nuevos medios en Colombia, preguntando en particular por las posibilidades narrativas que tienen los movimientos sociales en el nuevo espacio comunicativo abierto por internet. Para ello, se lleva a cabo un estudio descriptivo del relato elaborado en la red social Twitter por activistas virtuales del movimiento de indignación surgido en Bogotá tras la destitución del alcalde mayor, Gustavo Petro, a finales de 2013. Se encontró que Twitter fue un espacio esencialmente de disputa. El relato del movimiento fue construido en permanente contrapunteo no solo con las informaciones de los medios de comunicación tradicionales y las intervenciones de los líderes políticos, sino también con expresiones ciudadanas rivales, que se movilizaron paralelamente en la misma red social en un ejercicio de contestación. Esta investigación emplea como marco analítico la “autocomunicación de masas” propuesta por Manuel Castells.

Постсекулярность и цифровой антиклерикализм в Рунете [Post-Secularity and Digital Anti-Clericalism on Runet]

This article deals with the phenomenon of “digital anti-clericalism” in the Russian-speaking sphere of the Internet (Runet). In the context of post-secularism the claims of Russian clerical and bureaucratic elites to the ideological monopoly in the political and social life face a strong resistance from the champions of religious pluralism and preservation of a secular state. Presented here is a detailed analysis of the topics and the stylistic features of different types of anti-clerical Internet communication – a variety of political folklore (memes, demotivators, photoshopped pictures). Also traced is the connection between the modern anti-clericalism on Runet and the late Soviet counter-culture. Suggested for the first time is a classification of anticlerical and atheist websites that constitute a vital part of the Russian blogosphere.

Blogosfera, estratégias de subversão e o campo da comunicação no Brasil: uma análise do Movimento dos Blogueiros Progressistas sob uma perspectiva de estudos organizacionais

O campo da comunicação tem passado por um processo de intensas mudanças no que tange ao modo como a notícia é produzida, distribuída e consumida em seus diversos segmentos. Tal fenômeno está ligado, principalmente, a mudanças de ordem tecnológica que têm possibilitado novas alternativas de se produzir e comercializar a noticia e que fogem ao modelo estabelecido pelas organizações dominantes nesse espaço. A Internet, além de ter modificado o processo tradicional de produção, comercialização e distribuição da informação praticado pelas corporações de mídia, possibilitou também que diferentes grupos da sociedade civil pudessem expressar-se de maneira mais livre. Nesse sentido, graças à utilização das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação por parte de tais grupos, viu-se o surgimento, no campo da comunicação no Brasil, de um conjunto de blogs políticos que possui como principal intuito desafiar o poder da mídia tradicional e também o de permitir a difusão de pontos de vista políticos distintos aos das organizações mainstream. Tal espaço é aqui denominado como uma blogosfera política alternativa. Dentre os diversos grupos de agentes que ingressaram no campo da comunicação nos últimos tempos, pode-se mencionar um movimento organizado específico que ganhou visibilidade nos últimos anos tanto por sua atuação política, como por seu engajamento na discussão sobre a democratização da mídia no Brasil: o Movimento dos Blogueiros Progressistas (BlogProg). O BlogProg, que é composto por jornalistas egressos de grandes organizações de mídia tradicional, jornalistas ligados a veículos de mídia alternativa e militantes políticos vinculados a partidos de esquerda, foi responsável pela realização de diversos encontros nacionais em que foram feitas diversas reivindicações em prol da formulação de políticas públicas que garantissem a democratização do campo da comunicação no Brasil e que incentivassem a própria blogosfera. Nesse sentido, a presente tese possui como objetivo analisar de que maneira a gênese e a consolidação de uma blogosfera política alternativa possibilitou, sobretudo a partir da criação do Movimento de Blogueiros Progressistas (BlogProg), o surgimento de estratégias de subversão por parte de diferentes agentes pertencentes ao campo da comunicação no Brasil. Procura-se realizar uma articulação entre a teoria sociológica de campo social desenvolvida pelo sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu, e a perspectiva de ativismo de mídia advinda dos campos dos estudos de mídia e comunicação e da sociologia, especialmente aquela desenvolvida por autores como Carroll e Hackett (2006) e Hackett (2008). Para que o objetivo deste trabalho pudesse ser atingido, optou-se por coletar diferentes tipos de dados que pudessem ser contrapostos e que permitissem uma maior profundidade no que tange à analise dos elementos aqui sob investigação. Assim, foram coletados dados provenientes de treze blogs vinculados ao movimento BlogProg. Também, foram coletados dados provenientes de observação participante nos principais eventos promovidos pelos agentes que compõem o movimento. Por fim, foram entrevistados dezoito pessoas, dentre blogueiros e ativistas digitais que possuem algum tipo de relação com o movimento aqui analisado. Como resultado foi possível verificar que este novo movimento social faz uso de diferentes micro e macro estratégias de subversão não só para que seja possível desafiar as organizações dominantes vinculadas aos meios de comunicação tradicionais, mas também para modificar as regras dominantes e a ordem estabelecida no campo da comunicação. Entretanto, evidenciou-se que as estratégias de subversão, ainda que sejam orientadas por um desejo de promover transformações revolucionárias no campo por meio da defesa de práticas opostas às práticas dominantes, ainda assim muitas vezes são obrigadas a incorporar algumas práticas ou elementos que também estão presentes nestas últimas, o que está relacionado à força do habitus dos agentes que exercem mais peso no movimento e também pela necessidade do movimento continuar a disputar o jogo em questão. Espera-se que a pesquisa aqui proposta contribua para os estudos sobre as organizações e o elemento poder presente em toda a sua rede de relações sociais. Tais estudos, de acordo com Faria (2003), deve ser capaz de revelar não apenas o que é manifesto e que somos capazes de ver facilmente, mas também o que não pode ser expresso, o que jaz oculto.

O renascimento do parto e da (reinvenção da) emancipação social na blogosfera brasileira: contra o desperdício das experiências

The birth models of care are discussed, in the light of classical and contemporary social science theoretical background, emphasizing the humanistic model. The double spiral of the sociology of absences and the sociology of emergences is detailed, being based, on one hand, on the translation of experiences of knowledge, and, on the other, on the translation of experiences of information and communication, by revealing the movement articulated by Brazilian women on blogs that defend and bring into light initiatives aiming to recover natural and humanized birth. A cartography of the thematic ideas in birth literature is produced, resulting in the elaboration of a synthetic map on obstetric models of care in contemporaneity, pointing out the consequences of the obstetric model that has become hegemonic in contemporary societies, and comparing that model to others that work more efficaciously to mothers and babies. A symbolic cartography of the activism for humanizing birth on the Brazilian blogosphere is configured by the elaboration of an analytical map synthetizing the main mottos defended by the movement: Normal humanized birth; Against obstetrical violence; and Planned home birth. The superposition of the obstetric models of care s map and the rebirth of birth s analytical map indicates it is necessary to reinforce three main measures in order to make a paradigmatic turn in contemporary birth models of care possible: pave the way for the humanistic care of assistance in normal birth, by defending and highlighting practices and professionals that act in compliance with evidence based medicine, respecting the physiology of birth; denaturalize obstetric violence, by showing how routine procedures and interventions can be means of aggression, jeopardizing the autonomy, the protagonism and the respect towards women; and motivate initiatives of planned home birth, the best place for the occurrence of holistic experiences of birth. It is concluded that Internet tools have allowed a pioneer mobilization in respecting women s reproductive rights in Brazil and that the potential of the crowd s biopower that resides on the blogosphere can turn blogs into a hegemonic alternative way to reach more democratic forms of social organization. In that condition of being virtually hegemonic in contesting the established power, these blogs can be understood, therefore, as potentially great contra-hegemonic channels for the rebirth of birth and for the reinvention of social emancipation, as their author s articulate and organize themselves to strive against the waste of experience, trying to create reciprocal intelligibility amongst different experiences of world

O leitor de blog: um estudo com base nos blogs mais acessados do Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Un tutorial sobre blogs. El abecé del universo blog

Esta exposición pretende ser una introducción al estudio de un amplio, complejo y dinámico conjunto de nociones, técnicas y prácticas sociales, que gira en torno a la blogosfera, “un vigoroso subespacio de comunicación en Internet”, tal como lo denomina Sáez Vacas en esta misma revista. El objetivo no es tanto ser exhaustivo en el tratamiento, como dar a conocer al lector los distintos conceptos y fenómenos involucrados en la génesis de este peculiar universo, cuyo origen podemos situar en un metafórico Blog Bang. Hablaremos de los blogs (weblogs o bitácoras), su origen, caracterización, clasificación y cuantificación, de la tecnología que los rodea y de conceptos relacionados, tales como los wikis, el socialware, la blogocultura y la web semántica. This essay is designed as an introduction to the study of a broad, complex and dynamic set of notions, techniques and social practices revolving around the blogosphere –“an intense communication subspace on the Internet”, as defined by Saéz Vacas in this magazine. The aim of this article is not to exhaustively cover the topic, but rather, to introduce the reader to the different concepts and phenomena involved in the genesis of this peculiar universe, whose origin lies in the metaphoric Blog Bang. We will touch on blogs (weblogs and bitcores), their origin, nature, classification and quantification, the technology that surrounds them, and other related concepts like wikis, socialware, blogculture and web semantics.

Blogs: On the Cutting Edge of the Next-generation Web

This article analyses a number of social and cultural aspects of the blog phenomenon with the methodological aid of a complexity model, the New Techno-social Environment (hereinafter also referred to by its Spanish acronym, NET, or Nuevo Entorno Tecnosocial) together with the socio-technical approach of the two blogologist authors. Both authors are researchers interested in the new reality of the Digital Universal Network (DUN). After a review of some basic definitions, the article moves on to highlight some key characteristics of an emerging blog culture and relates them to the properties of the NET. Then, after a brief practical parenthesis for people entering the blogosphere for the first time, we present some reflections on blogs as an evolution of virtual communities and on the changes experienced by the inhabitants of the infocity emerging from within the NET. The article concludes with a somewhat disturbing question; whether among these changes there might not be a gradual transformation of the structure and form of human intelligence.

From Underground to Elite: Egyptian Bloggers before and after the 2011 Uprising

This research looks at how the shift in the status of Egyptian bloggers from underground dissident voices to mainstream political and media players affected the plurality they add to the public space for discourse in Egypt’s authoritarian settings. The role of the internet – and more recently social media and bloggers – in democratic transition has been studied by various media scholars since the introduction of the worldwide web and especially after the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2011. But no work has been done to study how bringing those once-underground bloggers into the public and media spotlight affected the nature of the blogosphere and the bloggers themselves. Star bloggers were not only covered by the media after January 25th, 2011, they also started joining the media as column writers; a move that had various effects on them and the blogosphere but was never examined in media studies. The plurality the blogosphere adds to the Egyptian public space for discourse in light of those changes as well as in light of the financial and practical sustainability of blogging was hence never looked at in a context similar to Egypt’s. Guided by modified theories of the public sphere and theories of hegemony and manufacturing consent, I look at whether bloggers have been co-opted into the historical bloc in the process of renewing the social order and how this affects them and the online sphere. Also, guided by theories of power and media elites, I look at bloggers’ backgrounds to assess whether they come from power elites and are transforming into media elites, thus limiting the plurality of the online sphere. Finally, guided by theoretical works on institutionalizing and commercializing the internet, I look at how those shifts into mainstream affect the independence and freedom of the blogs and microblogs. The research uses a comparative study to assess how those changes affect prominent versus less prominent bloggers and compare their backgrounds. The study uses quantitative content analysis and framing analysis of chosen media outlets and interviews with bloggers, marketeers and media professionals. The findings trace an increase in media coverage of bloggers post January 25th, 2011, especially in the prominent bloggers category, and an overall positive framing of bloggers post the uprising. This led to the mainstreaming of bloggers into the media as well as public work, which had various implications on the freedom they had over their content and voice, both online and offline. It also points to a dramatic decrease in bloggers’ activity on their blogs in favour of mainstream and social media and due to star bloggers becoming more career-oriented and their failure to make blogs financially sustainable. The findings also indicate that more prominent bloggers seem to come from more elite backgrounds than others and enjoy luxuries that allow them the time, technology and security to post online. This research concludes that the shifts in bloggers’ status post-January 25th have limited the plurality they add to the discourse in Egypt.

Blogósfera periodística en Ecuador La opinión deliberada ¿Quiénes son y qué escriben?

El uso de blog por los periodistas ecuatorianos es un proceso relativamente nuevo; es utilizado como una alternativa de comunicación libre y vía de escape de las presiones internas y externas que existen en el sector de medios en el país desde la aprobación de la Ley de Comunicación. Este estudio evidencia la existencia de 91 blogs divididos en tres categorías: 64 blogs personales alimentados por periodistas, 24 asociados a los grandes medios impresos en Ecuador y 3 blogs grupales dedicados a la distribución de noticias.Se analizan los lugares de procedencia de los blogs y su relación con los niveles de acceso a la Red, temas tratados, la difusión que tienen en Facebook y Twitter, los tipos de blogs (personales, adjuntos a medios y grupales) y, por último, su índice de abandono y mortandad, usando la técnica de rastreo digital de evidencias (Roger, 2009). En Ecuador los blogs no son monotemáticos; tratan varias ramas siendo el periodismo, la comunicación y la política los temas preferidos.