Introduction

Abstract

Since the uprising of the indigenous communities in Chiapas in 1994, the dispute over codes, information and knowledge has proven to be central to current sociocultural mediation practices following in the wake of the digital revolution. Therefore, technopolitics represents a field of research focusing on the models that are assumed by this battle over meaning, how these models are defined by the appropriation and use of new digital tools of representation—on-line and off-line—and, among other things, how digital media form part of an integrated process of providing new codes and new meanings for the public and social spheres in Latin America. These are only some of the issues that have been broached here in this book with an eye to imparting practical knowledge of the connections between social movements and media technologies, and their complexity.