Understanding political and citizen participation on digital platforms for civic mobilization. Analysis of cyber-activism in Spain through Change.org
Author/s
Pérez Escolar, MartaDirector/s
Noguera Vivo, José ManuelDate
2017Discipline/s
Ciencias de la ComunicaciónSubject/s
Métodos de Investigación SocialActitudes Sociales
Cambio y Desarrollo Social
Percepciones y Movimientos Sociales
Abstract
This doctoral dissertation attempts to study cyber-activism as an emerging phenomenon that could complement traditional processes of political and civic participation in Spain. Citizens display their indignation with the political elite and public institutions and aim to find new opportunities to get involved in the democratic community (Stoker, 2006; Hay, 2007; Presno Linera, 2012; Innerarity, 2016). In this context, cyber-activism provides an additional element that meets postmodern society concerns and gives power to citizens (Carpentier, 2012).
Nevertheless, cyber-activism is also considered a movement too complex and extensive to delve into in a single article of research. For that reason, this study analyses cyber-activism in Spain through the digital platform for civic mobilization: Change.org.
The main hypothesis of the current research formulates that cyber-activism as introduced in Spain as an expression of political and civic participation that reconciles new opportuniti...