The document discusses the role of social media in global unrest and political movements, emphasizing its capacity to connect and mobilize individuals beyond geographic boundaries. It highlights the evolution of hacktivism, the impact of transparency and surveillance, and the importance of technopolitics in enhancing political engagement. The text ultimately suggests that while social media fosters decentralized leadership, it also raises questions about privacy and government control over personal data.

1. social media
&
social change
adrià rodríguez

3. WHY IT’S KICKING OFF
EVERYWHERE!? The networked character of modern
society makes country-specific unrest
predictions pointless. There is, in reality, one
political entity that matters. Right now it is
more unequal than it’s ever been; its core
economic model is destroyed; the consent
of its citizens to be governed is eroded.
It is the world.
Paul Mason

4. Number of world protests by main grievance/demand 2006-2013

5. The logics of contagion and the protests worldwide from 2010 to 2013
Social media call
Concrete event
Others (social unrest)

6. Occupy movement map

7. Occupy movement motto “We are the 99%”

8. Wealth unequality in USA

12. Chelsea Manning

13. Edward Snowden

15. Today hackers have become more
politicized because of Anonymous,
WikiLeaks, Snowden, and the Pirate
Party. We’ll keep seeing forms of
hacktivism, whether they take the
shape of Guy Fawkes masks or not.
Gabriella Coleman

16. When states are opaque for
citizens and citizens are
transparent for states we call it
surveillance.When states are
transparent for citizens and
citizens are opaque for states
we call it democracy.
Jeremie Zimmerman

17. What do you
think about... Have you ever used
any privacy or
encription system for
protecting you and
your information?
What is your opinion about the
possibility of governments and big
corporation to take our data?
Do you think it is necessary?
Do you think it is fare?

18. MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

19. We can hope for a transformation of
mass-media power that will overcome
contemporary subjectivity, and for the
beginning of a post-media era of
collective-individual reappropriation and
an interactive use of machines of
information, communication, intelligence,
art and culture.
NEW PUBLIC
SPHERE
Felix Guattari

20. The whole world tracking #occupywallstreet upheaval on 17.09.2011

21. front pages newspapers 11-13 May 2011 front pages newspapers 16-18 May 2011
Front page coverage of the 15m movement in Spain

22. The Streisand Effect

23. CLICKTIVISM?
OR
TECHNOPOLITICS Internet use grows a 20%
during the emergence
of the #15m and the
occupation of the
squares all around Spain
in 2011. This increase
is mainly on the use of
Facebook and Twitter.
Technopolitics is not clicktivism nor cyberactivism.
Technopolitics is not just the mere use of the
Internet and social networks, but a new paradigm of
political organization, affection, communication and
struggling through and within the net.
Technopolitics is not about Internet itself but about
the capacity of Internet to increase the political
potentialities of the hiperconected multitudes, to
increase capacities of cooperation and affection
between brains/bodies through the Internet tools.
Technopolitics paradigm is not homogenic, there are
differences between countries and regions: differences
on digital divide, internet cultures, and digital
alphabetization.

24. Destituent & constituent yellings Min 5’10’’

26. Social media use is not characterized by absolute
horizontality, but is rather accompanied by the rise
of new forms of soft leadership. The term “choreo-
graphy” is a metaphor to render the idea that at
the time of social media protest activity is not as
spontaneous and disorganised as it might appear
at first sight. Rather, by using social media, acting
as Facebook admins or popular movement tweeps,
contemporary digital activists come to act as chore-
graphers or soft leaders of sorts - Paolo Gerbaudo
HORIZONTALITY?
OR DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP
Paolo Gerbaudo

27. Decentralized/temporary/coreographical leadership

28. Networked communities are neither
closed nor exclusive. You can connect
and disconnect yourself. You can even
connect and disconect yourself to different
communities. Internet is abundance, not
scarcity. You can have multiple identities.
This experience can help us to imagine
more open and flexible forms of
political participation.
Marga Padilla

29. Not everyone in the world is in
the Internet, but everyone in the
Internet is in the world
- @Ciudadano_zero0
FICTION VS. REAL?

30. Lina Ben Mhenni

31. Egyptian revolution: the network and the square

32. STATE
#Control
#Surveillance
MARKET
#Selling data from prosumers (datamining)
#Selling brands and products to prosumers
Privacy, encription, transparency
Free culture, open data and free software
P2P
Autonomous platforms and media, but.... >
+
WE/
GLOBAL
CITIZENS/
99%
#Democracy
#Rights
DEMOCRACY & NETWORKS

33. It’s very hard for a repressive
government to shut down a
system that most people are using
for perfectly innocuous needs
- Ethan Zuckerman on the Cute
Cat Theory

34. What do you
think about... Have you ever used
any social network
for “political” or
social purposes?
Do you think social media is good for
self-organizing among people? To do so,
do you consider it might be necessary to
have social platforms not controlled by
governments or big corporations?

35. Images, videos and data from
> Datanalysis research group IN3 (UOC University)
>“Kairós. The reinvention of the democracy in the Mediterranean”documentary
> Outliers Collective
Special thanks to
Javier Toret
Paolo Gerbaudo
Hector Huerga
Lali Sandiumenge
Pablo Aragón
Lilia Weslaty
Bernardo Gutiérrez
Juan Linares
Nuria Vila
Ruben Martínez December 2015