Digital capitalism and digital activism in Latin America: Think globally, act locally

MARÍA SOLEDAD SEGURA

Conferencia; IAMCR Conference 2019; 2019

The analysis of recent experiences of digital activism in Latin America shows that there are two types differentiated by objectives and spheres of action: ?social digital activism that uses diverse tactics -including the collection, production and handling of information, and the reasoning based on big data- for social change; and ?the activism for digital rights that is represented by social movements that promote the respect and expansion of rights with respect to the production, protection and management of data, and have as objective to regulate the extractivism of data by corporations and states.I will focus on the analysis of the latter to discuss the dimensions of digital capitalism and activism for digital rights in Latin America:?Are the challenges generated by a global technology the same in all regions of the planet, or can we distinguish local particularities??Do the uses of these relatively new technologies also imply the appearance of new problems, or old problems are repeted??In Latin America, are we facing old or new, and global or local interpretative frames, demands, opponents and allies, strategies, and types of organizations to face them?