1. Arab Cyberactivism: from papers to social networks
- Author
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Salud Adelaida Flores Borjabad
- Subjects
Revolution ,Árabe ,Arab ,Historical method ,Identidad ,Dibujo ,Medios ,Cartoon ,Identity ,Political science ,Revolución ,Ethnography ,Cultural ,Humanities ,Mass media - Abstract
El activismo en el mundo arabe ha sido representado en la clandestinidad. Destaca el uso de la caricatura, que ha sido un elemento clave, debido a que a traves de simbolos el caricaturista era capaz de convertirse en un activista de la pluma. No obstante, con el desarrollo del ciberespacio esa fuente de activismo marcada en el papel se tradujo a la red, haciendo que la caricatura cobrara aun mas importancia al poder transmitir ideas de una manera mas directa, al mismo tiempo que desarrollaba una forma de activismo virtual. Por ello, este trabajo pretende estudiar y analizar la historia de la caricatura arabe para ver su cristalizacion en una forma de activismo revolucionario, asi como tambien pretende reflejar como se ha generado una comunidad virtual en torno a ello. Se ha usado una metodologia cualitativa, empleando un metodo historico que permita recolectar informacion sobre la historia de las caricaturas en el mundo arabe. Luego, se ha desarrollado un metodo visual etnografico que permita estudiar el uso de las caricaturas usadas. Por tanto, los resultados y la discusion esperados son demostrar que la caricatura es una forma de revolucion y activismo, que se ha afianzado con el uso de internet. Palabras clave: Dibujo, revolucion cultural, Arabe, identidad cultural, medio de comunicacion de masas. Abstract:Activism in the Arab world have been represented in hiding. One of the most important forms has been political cartoons which have been an important tool that has been consolidated over time because cartoonists were able to become activists thanks to the use of symbols. However, the development of cyberspace translated cartoons into the network, by making them even more important as they transmitted ideas in a more direct way and developed a form of virtual activism . Therefore, the aim of this research is to study and analyze the history of the Arab political cartoons to see how it has consolidated in a form of revolutionary activism. Additionally, the attempt to this research is to reflect how a virtual community has been generated around that figure. As a result, a qualitative methodology has been used to carry out this research. A historical method has been used to collect information about the history of cartoons in the Arab world. Then, an ethnographic visual method has been developed to study the use of cartoons used. The results and discussion are to demonstrate that the cartoon is a form of revolution and activism which has strengthened itself with the use of the internet.
- Published
- 2021