[bestbits] FW: [IJoC] New Special Section on "Latin American Struggles" Published

[Becky Lentz]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Arlene Luck <aluck at asc.usc.edu>
Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 at 5:14 PM
To: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
Subject: [IJoC] New Special Section on "Latin American Struggles" Published

>Dear Readers,
>
>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
>___________________________________________________
>International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
>USC Annenberg Press
>University of Southern California
>http://ijoc.org/