La dimensión on-line en la vida social del movimiento 15 m. Una aproximación etnográfica

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the social and activist uses of virtual com- munication in the 15M movement. In general terms, it proposes the rearticu- lation of off-line and on-line as two areas where activist practices are concen- trated, which are not operating in a segregated way and, therefore, can only be understood in an integrated manner. In addition, it presents a resituation of the place they occupy in the general framework of social relationships, symbolic constructions and joint practices of the dispute. It shows six possibilities of activist uses of the mechanisms that take place on the Internet, explaining which ones were used by the 15M, plus analysis of two more ways that were neither calculated nor explicit: the Internet as a supportive place of ritual chain interactions at a distance and the Internet as a place for emergence subordinate discourses in the assembly space