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Cybercultural Politics. Political Activism
Ribeiro Gustavo Lins
1996
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Globalization, the information era and non-governmental organizations are highlycomplex,
much debated topics that may be considered as causes and results of many
changes in political, social, cultural and economic contemporary life. I want to explore the
entwinement of these issues to shed light on the emergence of another dimension of
political and cultural life, the emergence of the virtual-imagined transnational community
that can be better understood through an analysis of cybercultural politics. |
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Globalization, the information era and non-governmental organizations are highlycomplex,
much debated topics that may be considered as causes and results of many
changes in political, social, cultural and economic contemporary life. I want to explore the
entwinement of these issues to shed light on the emergence of another dimension of
political and cultural life, the emergence of the virtual-imagined transnational community
that can be better understood through an analysis of cybercultural politics. My aim is to
advance the existence of two powerful political dimensions: witnessing at distance and
activism at distance. I locate my own discussion within a growing literature on global
citizenship and planetary civil society; and on the impact of new technologies of
communications on the formation of new subjectivities, collectivities, social, economic and
institutional needs, ideologies, utopias and dystopias, flows of people, goods and
information2. Though this approach cannot be circumscribed to a given region of the world,
most of my examples are marked by a Latin American perspective.
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