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#GlobalRev: beyond digital

Bernardo Gutirrez /// Global Revolution Research Network // @bernardosampa (Twitter)

The spread of network movement is global

The relationship between technology and social change

The challenge is to understand 'how' the mindset, attitudes and collective skills allied to new technological tools can create new ways to change the world.

How connected are the brains and networks? How to understand the collective emotional moods?

8 network patterns of #GlobalRevolution

1.Tecnopolitics:
Multi-layer actions

Tactical and strategic use of digital tools and online collective identities for collective organization, communication and action.

The ability of connected crowds, of brains and bodies to create networks and self-modular collective action. Pattern of political self-organization in the network society.

It is not CLICKACTIVISM or CIBERACTIVISM. Technopolitics uses the network and the ciberterritory to have effect outside and inside. It is not activism without strategy or organization or exclusively online.

Mind map of tecnopoltics, by Javier Toret

2. Hybrid spaces. Multilayer analysis //
physical layer + digital layer

The combination of social networks and occupation of urban space anticipates the media coverage and mass communication agenda

'Vndalos' (chapullers) in Brazilian media

Manifestantes o vndalos,

Link of the study

3. Emotional connection

http://viralgezi.outliers.es/

From indignation to empowerment

Police violence, derogatory media coverage and stablishment turn on protesters into Vandals (Brazil), Chapullers (Turkey) or Perroflautas (Spain). #YoSoy132 (Mxico) is another example. Outrage is the new fuel of network revolts. Indignation turns into empowerment and positive emotions such as hope.

Aggregative emotions = empowerment

Spanish 15M emotional analysis

4. Collectives identities

Collective identities are common to all networked revolts of recent years. Identities that accept remixes and adaptations, such as 15M or Occupy camps. In Brazil many collective identities from Passe Livre emerged. The same with #Diren in Turkey.

In the revolts in Egypt, the death of blogger Khaled Said became a collective identity in Facebook fanpages as #Somos KhlaedSaid. In Brazil, the disappearance of the worker Amarildo Dias de Souza generated (almost) a collective identity. Left Picture: intervention in avenida Delfim Moreira, in Leblon (Rio de Janeiro) and residents of Rocinha favela with placard 'Where is Amarildo?'.

#SomosKhaledSaid, #SomosAmarildo

5. Aggregation

Easy adhesion slogans ("It is not for twenty cents, it is for rights" (Brazil), "We are not goods in the hands of politicians and Bankers" (Spain), "We are the 99% (Occupy) become a common divisor. The aggregation of the mobilization of the network system dismantles all sorts of antagonism. The identity (football fans creating the United Istanbul event or walking together in So Paulo), the regional (Rio and Sao Paulo forgetting grudges), ethnical (kurdish vs Turkish) or protesters vs police alliance are examples.

Political parties network (competitive)

Lack of interacctions between different communities (different parties).

Most of central actors are the recognized leaders.

Global Revolt Networks (collaboratives):

Interactions between different communities (ideological, geographical)

Central actors are, in general, collective identities.

Change of paradigm

Relationship among PT (Brazilian labour party), PSDB (right wing Brazilian party), Anonymous and Passe Livre. A study made by LABIC proved the endogamy of political parties in Brazil. Picture: left militants trying to partcipate in June the 20th protest in So Paulo.

Political parties endogamy

Transnational memes

No me representam (They don represent us) shout in Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro // Twitter Account of O Globo, hacked with Democracia Real J (Real Democracy) // #TomaLaCalle (take the street, a 15M Spanish meme, used in Peru two years later // @AnonymousRio profile, with indigenous style // Occupy, we are the 99%

6. Self-organized growth, swarms
and connected multitudes

Topology of 15M networks

Graphs of #Yosoy132 networks (Mexico)

7. Distributed temporal Leadership //
Beta Movement

There is a network or a relay race between a constellation of collective identities without permanent leadership or personal univocal identities

499 accounts of Spanish Revolution, (Manuela Lucas graph)

The study #ProtestoRj of Media Lab at UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro Federal University) about events in Rio de Janeiro evidenced that mobilization happened thanks to the "poor nodes" as @catupiry, for their ability to dialogue. Influential groups in the city - except Anonymous - were irrelevant in the first call.

The importance of poor nodes

From Propongo (15M-Indignados to Plaza Podemos), the hybrid participatory method of the occupied squares is getting sofisticated.

8. From grassroots participation to power

References

Slides 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 23, 25 (Javier Toret)1. Ns podemos cheirar o gs lacrimognio do Rio e Taksim at Tahrir. http://passapalavra.info/2013/07/803522. Acabou a modormia. O Rio vai virar outra Turquia http://propolis-colmena.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/acabou-mordomia-o-rio-vai-virar-uma.html3.Interagentes graph #6N // http://interagentes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dia6_branco.png4. Manifestantes o vndalos, http://blog.pageonex.com/2013/08/24/manifestantes-ou-vandalos-como-a-midia-tradicional-abordou-os-protestos-em-junho-de-2013-no-brasil/5. Viral Gezi // http://viralgezi.outliers.es/6. Cartography of hybrids spaes. http://portal.interagentes.cc/?p=627. Emotions 15M // http://assets.outliers.es/15memociones/8. Vocabulary 15M // artografa Afectiva http://www.cartografiaafetiva.talkinc.com.br/cartografia.pdf9. Afective cartography http://www.cartografiaafetiva.talkinc.com.br/cartografia.pdf10. Anonymity BR //(study) http://anonimatoprotestosbr.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/grafos/11.Primavera brasileira ou golpe da direita http://outraspalavras.net/blog/2013/06/23/primavera-brasileira-ou-golpe-de-direita-5/12. Study: #ProtestoRj of Media Lab UFRJ http://medialabufrj.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/protestorj-atores-menores-fazem-a-rede/13. 499 accounts of SpanishRevolution http://www.manuelalucas.com/sre/14. Study of relationship among PT, PSDB, Anonymous and Passe Livre. http://www.labic.net/sem-categoria/poder-ser-mas-nao-e-a-relacao-entre-pt-psdb-anonymous-e-passe-livre-no-facebook/15. They dont represent us, in Cmara municipal in Rio de Janeiro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR8i5JMyAWg16. Hacked Twitter account with Democracia Real J http://www.brasil247.com/pt/247/midiatech/114122/17. PlazaPodemos, http://www.reddit.com/r/podemos/

GLOBAL REVOLUTION RESEARCH NETWORK ///

Adaptation of a commons presentation of Javier Toret (@toret), Bernardo Gutirrez (@bernardosampa) and Tiago Pimentel (@antropoiese)