[ecrea] New Special IJOC Section on "Latin American Struggles" Published

While much attention has been paid to digital communication within the
Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring uprisings, its role within
contemporary struggles and protest movements in Latin America has not
received the consideration it deserves, especially internationally in
English-language scholarship. The academic literature on this topic is
fragmented, and it is hard to find a coherent set of articles that explore
the appropriations of digital media for resistance within the Latin American
scenario.

In this Special Section on Latin American Struggles and Digital Media
Resistance, we provide a space where various scholars reflect upon the
contributions, the challenges, and the confrontations that digital
technologies and alternative media pose to contemporary social movements and
collectives in several Latin American countries.

Guest-edited by Emiliano Treré and Claudia Magallanes-Blanco, this Special
Section features seven original articles and two extended conversations with
leading experts in the field who address the complexities in the
appropriations of digital technologies for resistance in Latin America.
Based on empirical research, the contributions of this Special Section
examine the challenges that digital resistance has to face in highly
concentrated media ecologies.

This collection of work also analyzes how new technologies reconfigure
political participation, redefine the role of alternative media, and propose
new conceptual lenses in order to understand contemporary activism in Latin
America. Moreover, the articles in this Special Section contribute to the
international debate about the changing dynamics of social movements and
media in Latin America, and about their interconnections with the uprisings
in the Mediterranean region, and in the Global South.

Authors for this Special Section include:

Lazaro Bacallao-Pino, University of Chile, Chile
Diana Coryat, Universidad de las Américas, Ecuador
Bernardo Gutíerrez, founder of futuramedia.net and codigo-abierto.cc
Summer Harlow, Florida State University, U.S.
Alexander Hernández, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela
Jairo Lugo-Ocando, University of Leeds, UK
Monica Marchesi, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Rodrigo Nunes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Daniela Parra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Patricia Peña, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Geoffrey Pleyers, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Raul Rodriguez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Chiara Sáez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Emiliano Treré, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico & Lakehead
University, Canada

We invite you to read this new Special Section that published November 
16, 2015 at http://ijoc.org.

Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

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