[Air-L] Social Media and Latin America sites, Part I

[nativebuddha]

Here's what I received concerning social media and Latin America. Thank you.



-robert






Social Media and Latin America





Work with Brazilian indigenous people and the internet (J. Brandão):

sitesindigenas.blogspot.com



Political action:



Rojas, H. & Puig-i-Abril, E. (2009). Mobilizers mobilized: Information,
expression, mobilization and participation in the digital age. Journal of
Computer Mediated Communication, 14 (4), 902-927.

Puig-i-Abril, E. & Rojas, H. (2007). Internet use as an antecedent of
expressive political participation among early Internet adopters in
Colombia. International Journal of Internet Science, 2, 28-44.





Facebook and the young (Delarbre, Raul T.):



http://lared.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/los-jovenes-latinoamericanos-se-reunen-en-facebook/





General pictures/numbers for Social Media use in Latin America:



http://synthesio.com/corporate/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/synthesio-social-media-in-latin-america.pdf



http://www.closingbigger.net/2009/09/social-media-south-america-latin-america/





Corporate use of social media--



http://www.burson-marsteller.com/Innovation_and_insights/blogs_and_podcasts/BM_Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=216









New Media Practices in Brazil:



a.       http://futuresoflearning.org/index.php/P33/





b.      http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/699/531





Horst, Heather (2011). “Free, Social, and Inclusive: Appropriation and
Resistance of New Media Technologies in Brazil” International Journal of
Communication, 5, pp. 437-462.



ABSTRACT: This article analyzes how new media are being appropriated within
the Brazilian society. Exploring a range of new media practices—from the use
of social network sites,

microblogging, gaming, music, video production, and digital photography to
youth media

programs, LAN houses, and online communities—this article examines changes
in the

production, consumption, and distribution of new media in Brazil.
Specifically, it explores

different orientations around new media technology as they emerge in
relation to

government policies, (new) media industries and ordinary citizens interested
in social

interaction, entertainment, and information-gathering through new media
technologies.

I further reveal how three key concepts dominate attitudes and values around
new

media technologies: free, inclusive, and social. Connecting these values to
theories of

appropriation in the Latin American region, I conclude by exploring how new
media

practices reflect, produce, and reproduce Brazilian cultural norms among
Brazilians.