Sobre la participación digital de la juventud universitaria en Argentina

Abstract

Civic participation has been deeply transformed by the growing use of social media, especially among youths, who not only utilize these virtual spaces to socialize but also to remain informed and become involved in matters of general interest. is paper looks at how university students in central Argentina engage in civic participation through social media. To this end, we converge the theoretical perspective of Lance Bennett (2008) and his model of actualizing citizenship (AC) with Peter Dahlgren's ideas (2018) regarding online participation and its links to emotions and affect. Following an exploratory qualitative study, which involved 98 semi-structured interviews, we found that those students who actively participate in a digital context do so motivated by causes that personally affect them, such as feminism or environmentalism. At the same time, they are oen discouraged from participating in these online arenas by the anger and aggression they find there. As a result, many have chosen alternative modes of participation, refraining from adding their own comments or opinions in favor of hashtivism or the sharing of emojis-a practice we have termed emojivism.

Unravelling Resistance: Data Activism Configurations in Latin American Civil Society

“…Civil society resistance practices can be conceptualised as acting from "within" the institutional norms and boundaries, mainly through lobbying and capacity building to promote legal reforms such as Pasquali's "National Communications Policies," 4 but also from the margins, particularly with grassroots movements (Gutiérrez, 2018a;Hintz et al, 2019). Other forms of resistance in Latin American social movements have originated within social media itself; hashtivism, for instance, has managed to elicit movements that go beyond the digital sphere to shape public discourse and legislation around gender, abortion, and the environment (Tarullo & Frezzotti, 2020;Tarullo & García, 2020). Some of these initiatives have later become part of organised civil society efforts, such as #Niunamenos by Latin American feminist journalists (Chenou & Cespeda-Masmela, 2019), which later became a collective movement against gender violence primarily based on digital activism that has replicated in different countries even outside the region.…”