Artigo Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Racial equality activism in Brazil, communication via networks and internet: Afropress News Agency / Activismo por la igualdad racial en Brasil. La comunicación a través de redes e Internet: Agencia de Noticias Afropress

2013; King Juan Carlos University; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

2444-3239

Autores

Leslie Sedrez Chaves, Denise Cogo,

Tópico(s)

Social Media and Politics

Resumo

The objective of this article is to analyze the processes of establishing activist social communication networks by black social movements in Brazil related to Afro-Brazilians’ struggles for citizenship. Recently, these struggles have culminated in the approval of the Racial Equality Act and government affirmative action policies for Brazilian university admissions. Within the scope of these processes, we analyze a specific contemporary experiment in networking by the black movement, developed by Afropress news agency. Initially, we review historic processes of inequality, resistance and mobilization of black populations in Brazil, identifying the establishment of social-communication activist networks starting with the uses black movements make of information and communication technology in their struggles for racial equality and citizenship for Afro-Descendents in the country. Second, from a Latin American cultural studies perspective, we analyze a specific case of internet use by Afropress news agency (www.afropress.com.br), which uses network communication as its main strategy for generating communicative flows to build and add visibility to the socio-cultural experiences of Afro-Brazilians and the agendas of struggles for racial equality.

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