Abstract

PALAZUELOS ROJO, Isaac de Jesús. Beyond fiction: social media, violence, politics and vindication. PAAKAT: rev. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.23, e747.  Epub May 22, 2023. ISSN 2007-3607.  https://doi.org/10.32870/pk.a12n23.747.

In this article we address the accelerated transformation of social experiences linked to the development of digital communication technologies. We aim to understand how media narratives are related to changes in the media representation of violence, political communication and repertoires of vindication. We carried out a digital ethnography on the consumption of violence in videos distributed on social media of the last two electoral processes in Mexico, as well as of the demonstrations that occurred in Latin America during the fall of 2019. We chose these empirical phenomena, because they are representative events in the reconfigurations that experience violence, politics and social movements, based on the use of social media. We found that the exponential increase in audiovisual production generated by the massive use of smartphones produces a blurring between fiction and reallity, which allowed us to identify three main findings: the mimicry of violence, the degradation of political rationality, and fiction as a repertoire of vindication. Bearing in mind these manifestations is relevant for the analysis of the transformations of violence, politics and vindication in a digital communication driven society.

Keywords : Undrawing; media mimicry; political mediatizations; cosplay protest.

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