Novas fronteiras para a comunicação ativista em rede : um olhar sobre o centro de mídia independente / New frontiers for activist communication networks : a look on the independent media center

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2010

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This research stems from an investigation into the repertoires of political action of the Independent Media Center, a network of activist organizations and distributed through a worldwide network of computers. The proposed research addresses the relationship between social movements and the media, which conforms to a new structure of communication and resource material with the advent of the Internet and its appropriation by social movements and activist groups. Through the Independent Media Center is theorizes about the hacker culture, its foundations and moral and ethical guidelines for access, openness and sharing of collective knowledge and information, substantiated by the free software movement. These ethical principles and practice for political activist pose challenges to established institutions like the States and mass media. Overwhelmingly, these institutions are to reorient the geopolitics of cyberspace, is justified mainly by the events of September 11, which declared a state of total surveillance and suspicion under the imminent threat of cyberwar declared by ethnic and political groups to states. However, the boundaries of cyberspace are more than open, they are constantly expanding, as evidenced by the repertoires of security and privacy advocacy groups before the attempt to control their online activities

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movimentos sociais cibercultura espionagem hacker política e cultura social movement cyberculture espionage hacker politics and culture digital media social networks

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