Prácticas contrainformativas como expresión de la ciberciudadanía ambiental

Abstract

This dissertation is the final product of the research alternative practices as an expression of cyber citizenship under the Mining Project The Colosa in Tolima, Colombia, held under the Communication and Education Doctorate in Digital Environments UNED. The analysis invites you to visit a social problem which is anchored in the reality of many regions in the world, especially mining open pit and actions of communities directly and indirectly affected, taking the voice, acting and face this type of dynamic guided by the hegemonic and mercantilist view of nature. As the object of study is to identify whether the practices of counter-information in the contents circulated through digital media related to the proposed opencast mining, La Colosa, in the department of Tolima in Colombia, between 2009 and 2015, are manifestations of a category that every day becomes more relevant, the cybercitizenship .. At the beginning of work, conceptual, such as axes knowledge society, globalization, social movements, communication and counter arise, achieving a breakthrough to relate to communication theories, setting categories of analysis, as are the concepts and themes Contrainformativas Contrainformativas practical tools that streamline and constitute basis for the fieldwork. Then the cybercitizenship sets, from a historical and theoretical tracking, identifying the essence of "concept in crisis" which has been analyzed from the administrative management and as discourse, to finally focus on stage cybercitizenship emerging citizenships. For the fieldwork, 225 records information related to the mining project La Colosa, located on the Internet through the Google search engine, which were characterized and analyzed allowing qualified through a case study to identify two contrainformativas internship project to which was applied a content analysis. Two products of digital communication that were analyzed from a model adapted Valencia, Arias and Vasquez (2009) for the analysis of environmental citizenship is then selected. As a result it was identified as the predominant Colosa The alternative media, there is a high impact of traditional media in digital formats and a tendency to produce thematic Contrainformativas. The blog "No to Colosa horrific" and the Facebook group "Peasant Consciousness" and after performing content analysis concluded that contrainformativas are well defined practices, with an ideological framework: as a case study two examples were selected Agenda and supported in their social and cultural tradition, a networking structure and dynamic communicative base allows a constant content generation. It was also found that the environmental stresses the concept of citizenship and the prospect of an environmental cybercitizenship evidenced by the mining project La Colosa, being a stage of social management, political, cultural with a mediation of the technologies, features policy set and high social impact. Finally, the bill provides what are called Catalysis, encouraging reflection of the role of media education in such situations if desired social activism transcend the processes of change.