Gold, power, protest: Digital and social media and protests against large-scale mining projects in Colombia
Gold, power, protest: Digital and social media and protests against large-scale mining projects in Colombia
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黄金、电力、抗议：数字和社交媒体以及针对哥伦比亚大型采矿项目的抗议
作者：
D. Specht;M. Ros
哥伦比亚的互联网连接大大增加。哥伦比亚也“开业”，导致采掘项目大量涌入，遭到社会运动的强烈反对。关于数字媒体在发展中国家政治动员中的作用的研究仍然很少。通过对文献、政策文件、网站和社交媒体内容的调查、访谈和评论，这项研究考察了数字和社交媒体在社会运动组织中的作用，并询问了增加数字连接如何有助于传播知识和动员采矿抗议活动。结果表明，新媒体在哥伦比亚的使用受到社会经济制约、对压迫的恐惧、键盘激进主义的制约以及社会运动中强大的等级权力结构的阻碍。因此，对政治动员的影响仍然有限。社交媒体不会自发地产生无等级的知识结构。因此，对内部和外部知识共享的重视是优化数字和社交媒体使用的条件。
Colombia’s Internet connectivity has increased immensely. Colombia has also ‘opened for business’, leading to an influx of extractive projects to which social movements object heavily. Studies on the role of digital media in political mobilisation in developing countries are still scarce. Using surveys, interviews, and reviews of literature, policy papers, website and social media content, this study examines the role of digital and social media in social movement organisations and asks how increased digital connectivity can help spread knowledge and mobilise mining protests. Results show that the use of new media in Colombia is hindered by socioeconomic constraints, fear of oppression, the constraints of keyboard activism and strong hierarchical power structures within social movements. Hence, effects on political mobilisation are still limited. Social media do not spontaneously produce non-hierarchical knowledge structures. Attention to both internal and external knowledge sharing is therefore conditional to optimising digital and social media use.