A conversation with Geoffrey Pleyers: The battlefields of Latin American struggles and the challenges of the internet for social change

Trere, Emiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2496-4571 and Pleyers, Geoffrey 2015. A conversation with Geoffrey Pleyers: The battlefields of Latin American struggles and the challenges of the internet for social change. International Journal of Communication 9 , pp. 3814-3822.

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Abstract

In this conversation, professor and leading scholar on global social movements and contemporary protest Geoffrey Pleyers maps and critically reflects on the main battlefields of Latin American struggles, from resistance over land dispossession and extractivism to conflicts over information control and the quality of democracy, from the battle against the neoliberal privatization of public education to the struggles for justice against impunity and violence. He then situates the role of digital media within a multifaceted scenario where powerful mainstream media and political elites are colluded, independent journalists are threatened and struggle to get their voice heard, and governments invest immense resources to spy on citizens and to influence public opinion. While recognizing the importance of the Internet to pursue social change in the Latin American context, Pleyers urges us to look at the broader social, political, and economic picture in order to understand the extent of the transformations on the continent.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
ISSN:	1932-8036
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 August 2018
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2023 01:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/105366

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