Author: Arnau Monterde Mateo
Programme: Doctoral Programme on the Information and Knowledge Society
Language: English
Supervisor: Dr Manuel Castells Oliván
Faculty / Institute: Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Key words: Social movements, networks, 15M, communication, technopolitics
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Abstract:
n this PhD thesis I develop an analysis on the 15M movement, from May 2011 until May 2015, focusing on the relation between the movement and its uses of networked communication technologies. The work recurs to a multi-methodological approach that combines quantitative, network, and qualitative analysis through interviews and fieldwork. The work is structured in three parts: the emergence of the movement in 2011, its evolution and transformation until 2015, and its electoral effects, both in the 2014 European elections, as well as in the 2015 local elections in Spain. The study develops, in a transversal way, analytically and conceptually, the notion of network-movement. More specifically, it does so through the characterisation of several observed properties of the 15M movement, giving continuity to a fertile field of knowledge currently open around movements emerging since 2011, attending to the role of communication networks, as well as to their potential for political and social transformation.