Technologies for transformation? Social media before political and social change

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Published: 01-01-2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v16i1.1162
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social media, political communication, social network, social change, digital media, digital activism
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) del Gobierno de España
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Miguel de Aguilera, Dr.
(ES)
University of Malaga image/svg+xml
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-6807 (unauthenticated)
Andreu Casero-Ripolles, Dr.
(ES)
Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, UJI (Spain)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6986-4163 (unauthenticated)

Abstract

Since its use as an innovative campaign tool by Barack Obama and its protagonism in the civil mobilizations of the Arab Spring, social media has been at the focus of social, political and academic debate. To what extent are these digital technologies capable of promoting and fostering social and political change? What are its limits to promote this type of transformation? This introductory article of the central section of this issue of Icono 14, has as its own objective to ponder, from a theoretical perspective, the potential of digital media to promote novelties in political organization, mobilization and information. The contributions and constraints of these platforms in the reconfiguration of the field of political communication are exposed.

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2018): Communication, power and social change

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Monograph

Author Biographies

Miguel de Aguilera, Dr., University of Malaga

He was born in Madrid, September 1956. Ph.D. in Political Sciences and Sociology. Professor at University of Málaga (Faculty of Communication Sciences), where he holds the Chair on Audiovisual Communication and Advertisement (from 1995). He taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1980-1992), where he was Senior Lecturer. He was General Director (Vice-rector) on Communication and Information, University of Málaga (2004- 2011). He was Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at University of Málaga (1996-2002). International Chair UNESCO on Communications 2006 (Grenoble and Lyon –France- universities)-. Faculty (Visiting Researcher) at the Department of Communications Studies, San José State University (California), 2003. General Secretary of the Research Committee on Communication, Knowledge and Culture of the International Sociological Association (1990-94). He gave lectures, seminars, courses, collaborate on researches or other kind of activities (including assessing in the institutional level) with many European universities, American (North and Latin), and African. He published more than 80 titles (including books, chapters, monographs, articles) in countries like Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, France, USA, Cameroun, Burkina Faso, Austria, Belarus, Mexico and Brazil. His research interest has a key point: the ways of thinking the communications. From a singular epistemological point of view, he looks to the digital culture, the popular culture and the users and consumers (young people, specially), covering different communicational phenomena (videogames, music and, in general, the new media and the media innovation). Concerning the applied communication he is specialized on corporative communications and fashion communications.

Andreu Casero-Ripolles, Dr., Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, UJI (Spain)

Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Communication. Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, UJI (Spain)

How to Cite

Aguilera, M. de, & Casero-Ripolles, A. (2018). Technologies for transformation? Social media before political and social change. Journal ICONO 14, 16(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v16i1.1162