Building knowledge from the margins: information, knowledge and social movements

Abstract

The social theory that has been constructed in Latin America in the past twenty years, proposes an alternative to the traditional criteria of science boundaries. This alternative approach, oriented towards social emancipation, is gaining ground over the predominant tendency, which is to subsume knowledge into an intensive process of commoditization. Anti-globalist movements are amongst the social players that have a leading role in the development of new ways of building knowledge. These movements act based on a new relationship between processes of social change, knowledge-building and the meaning and direction of communication. In this context, communication and information cease to be instruments for the regulation and control of social behavior. The tensions arising from the market and the predominating, inherited communication models go against research concerned with building meanings and viewpoints that are alternatives to the predominant ones. The new, emerging approaches tend to strengthen bidirectional relationships between communication and social transformation. Resumo A teoria social que vem sendo construída na América Latina nos últimos vinte anos propõe uma alternativa aos critérios tradicionais de demarcação das ciências. Frente à tendência dominante, que tende a subsumir o conhecimento num processo intensivo de mercantilização

Communication Research, the Geopolitics of Knowledge and Publishing in High-Impact Journals: The Chronicle of a Commodification Process Foretold

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Connective Action for Global Fairness: Building Social Imaginaries

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Comunicación transgresora de cambio social: epistemologías performativas y eficacia cultural

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