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Coordinator:
Osvaldo
León
Co-authors:
Osvaldo León,
Sally
Burch,
Eduardo Tamayo
Assistant:
Raúl Borja
Quito,
september 2001.
Agencia
Latinoamericana de Información
This
project was carried out thanks to a financial contribution from
the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa,
Canada..
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Latin America is undergoing a new phase of social
reactivation whose agenda includes global issues and social actors
who seek to break out of the isolation of their specific
struggles. Under this tonic, networks and coordinating bodies have
proliferated (among peasants, indigenous people, women, African
descendents, popular urban communities, among others), that are
appropriating the Internet to intercommunicate, coordinate and
disseminate their actions and proposals. This involves endeavours
to deepen their understanding of the logic behind it, so as to
reap fuller benefits.
The first part of this book
explores the debate regarding the Internet, seeking to locate more
precisely what is at stake in this environment, as a prerequisite
to thinking of strategies. The second part presents a survey of
how the organizations involved in the Web Community of Social
Movements are incorporating the Internet into their practice,
looking at utilization and benefits, motivations and perceptions,
social-organizational and communicational implications.
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Contents
Introduction
PART I
New Information and
Communications Technologies:
Light
and Shadows
Chapter
1: An Aproach to the Debate on the Social Implications of
ICTs
ICTs
and Globalization
Internet:
the New "Object-King"
Promises
and Realities
The
Development Gap
Chapter
2: The Networked Society
New
Modes of Organization
Social
Networks
Cyber-Communities
Global
Alliances On-line
PART II
Latin @merica:
movimientos.org
Chapter
3: Exclusion and Resistance in Latin America
The
Neoliberal Wave
Rebuilding
Social Organization
Unity
in Diversity
The
Challenge of Communication
Chapter
4: Internet and Social Organizations: An Exploratory Study
Part I
Information
Capital: a Methodological Opening
An
Adverse Environment
Uses
and Usefulness
Technological
Appropriation
Part II
Information
Processing
Dissemination
by Internet
Networking
From
Means to Ends: Media and Policy
Chapter
5: A Process, in Progress
Social
Appropriation of the Net
Learning
to Learn
Building
Alternatives
Bibliography
Acronyms
used in this book
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