Work Team C-18: Social movements and technological nets

Work Group description

He Seems that this year 2009 is full of important commemorations, one of them is 150 anniversary of the publication of the written work for Charles Darwin,"The origin of species". The specificity of our lifestyle and of living has closely gone linked to the technology development and construction and knowledge to adapt us to our environment. From the instrument manufacture with initiated sticks and stones does about 2.4 million years, to the development of the Earth's culture (agriculture) does ones few thousands of years, have passed does so alone four decades to be stepped Luna and to be turned our planet Earth in a Global Hamlet. New technologies transform our communication chances and relationship offering new challenges and new opportunities to change our ways of organization and of life in society.



The technology does not operate "per se", we build her, use her, do her operation. Today but that never need to increase our individual consciousness and collective around the technological developmental use.



In the twentieth CENTURY our technological development made us able to create a destructive potential, the nuclear bomb, that puts in great risk the stock of our species and of other many. In the same way during the last one centuria have increased in a considerable way the human beings' skills of uniting and coordinating to build a fairer and human world. Social movements have been gone globalizing and they are learning to be "thought as a whole and to act locally" (JLCoraggio proposes to rethink, in the political thing, is formula for him limited).



In this working group and discussion group, within the fourth congress of the Cybersociety would like us to promote the reflection and knowledge exchange around social movements and technological nets, his new challenges and his new opportunities.



Find us from the nineties with an increasing use of the ICT on the part of social movements. The potentiality of the ICT as an internet have transformed the speed, the scale and the way of action organization. Not only have facilitated the action in the distance but that have changed the way of organization of own social movements favoring for example the decentralization adding network structures and developing and spreading a culture/logic of nets. According to Jeffrey S. Juris (link article), social movements of the tic have added a high sensitivity observing the political nature of the software and technologies that we allow talking of a political culture of technologies (conflict between different associated visions with particular uses i conception of technologies).



In this respect, and according to the congressional editorial line, pose the intention of opening a space for him meeting, the exchange and the debate on an open topic and complex as that one of social movements and technological nets. Space that imagine necessarily hybrid for the vision multiplicity, experiences, fields and practices that converge (economy, culture, generation of knowledge, policy, etc.). Imagined a translation meeting space intercultural and where are given appointment and is condensed an ecology of saberes taking lent items that within the framework of the world social forum coins Buonaventura Santos (http://www.universidadepopular.org/pages/pt/inicio.php). (1)



A space to visualize and share experiences and practices, glimpsing the common thing and to build the common thing from different practices.



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(1) end The of translation and ecology of saberes use her from Boaventura Santos (used items within the framework of the FSM to pose a citizenship school). Paulo Freire promoted the "dialog intercultural", overcoming the negative side of the diversity that the fragmentation is and the atomization. "This constant task work is a vast translation exercise for expanding the reciprocal intelligibility without destroying the identity of the translated one. A translation exercise that has to to identify and to reinforce the common thing in the diversity (B. Santos, 2004:80-81). The ecology of saberes "consists of the dialog promotion between the to know scientist, technician or humanistic that the university produces and the saberes legos, popular, traditional, urban (?) that circulate in the society" (B. Santos, 2004a: 76).(free translation)