Juventude, movimentos sociais e redes digitais de protesto em época de crise

We have been witnessing in recent years, in several contexts, the emergence of new forms of contestation involving the use of digital media as resources for civic mobilization. Based on the findings of a qualitative research project about youth participation in the public sphere in Portugal with a special focus on digital media and technologies, the present article intends to answer a set of interrelated questions. What role digital media have on the repertoires of action of the collective actors present in the recent cycle of contention? What’s the role of the so-called social networks and other digital platforms in these protests? How are they used by given collective actors and what representations are engendered as result of these uses in different circumstances of the “activist work”?