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Clemencia Rodríguez

Media, Communication, and Social Movements

In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of media use for dissent. Since that time, an array of dissenting collectives and individuals have appropriated digital media technologies in order to make their voices heard or to articulate alternative identities. From Zapatista media to the Arab Spring, social movements throughout the world are taking over, hybridizing, recycling, and adapting media technologies. This new era poses a new set of challenges for academics and researchers in the field of Communication for Social Change (CfSC). My research in this area explores such challenges and makes an explicit attempt to de-mystify the glorified prestige of digital platforms as tools for resistance and mobilization.

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Further readings:

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  1. Orley Durán and Clemencia Rodríguez. (2018) “Rural social movements in contexts of war. The Colombian Agrarian Strike of 2013.” Journalism & Communication Monographs 20(2): 149 - 160.

  2. Rodríguez, Clemencia; Ferron, Benjamin; Shamas, Kristin. (2014) “Four Challenges in the Field of Alternative, Radical and Citizens’ Media Research.” Media, Culture and Society 36(2), 150-166.

  3. Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2017) “Studying Media at the Margins. Lessons from the Field.” In Pickard, Victor and Yang, Guobin (eds.), Media Activism: Charting an Evolving Field of Research, 49 – 61. New York: Routledge.

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